₦airaland Forum

DMerciful:
Oil thieves is not the main problem of Nigeria,no! Its the fraudulent partial federal system that has turned the nation into tens of millions of lazy people.This fraudulent federal system is the problem majorly of Nigeria and we must restructure or split to move forward.

No doubt about that, true federalism is the way forward for this country. And it can only be achieved on one condition, that's if the SE and SW cooperate together with the SS to fight for it. The entire south has to be united in this singular purpose if we must overcome the dominance of the NW and NE which is presently sitting on the realisation of true federalism. As long as the SW and SE continue to fight themselves foolishly, and as long as the SS continues to 'suspect' the SE and SW , the north will continue to dominate and laugh at us even as we kiss true federalism goodbye!

DMerciful:
Why is everything about oil? Why is the Niger Delta feeding the whole nation? The beef from the north is it freely given to Nigerians like ND oil?The staple foods from the North is it freely given to Nigerians like the ND oil? The cocoa from the SW is it freely given to Nigerians? Why is ND oil the basis for our pretentious unity? Leave Niger Delta oil alone! If a child steals his mothers food, how is that the neighbors business? The oil belongs to ND so you guys should back off ! No wonder you're running a Dependent System of Government which is neither federal or presidential but you keep deceiving yourself that it is modelled after US system. There must be resource control else this zoo must fall. I hate parasites, they have the xtics of killing their host if not eradicated. Yeye dey smell

Its unfortunate that Nigeria depends solely on niger delta oil, but you have to live with it, I'm sorry. May you also be reminded that the cocoa producers you talk about also pay tax/royalties to the government, albeit much smaller (insignificant) compared to oil.

Now regarding the bolded part of your statement, you say a child should be ALLOWED to steal his mother's food, but in your myopia, you have failed to see that the biggest thieves of the mother's food are actually the neighbors, yet you defend them blindly. This is your exact folly which I have been trying to point out to you. The recent oil billionaires being indicted alongside madam bear names like Kola Aluko, Jide omokore etc... I'm sure you also know the names and multi-ethnicity of the people that popped up as culprits in the fuel subsidy scam?... Yet you say they should all be let go because in your myopia, you actually think it is your people that are the real thieves, and you think you are defending your people by this folly; what a shame!

Well unfortunately, if you dont give a damn about who steals meat from your mother's pot, there are a lot of reasonable people who do. Be ye informed that it is the business of the neigbours if a few rogues keep stealing meat from your mother's pot and that is simply because your neighbours also feed from that pot. If you think the crumbs the thieves toss at you is enough (that's if you even gain a kobo from the thieves), there are a lot of people out there whose little share of that meal from your mother's pot is greatly affected by the actions of these rogues. These people cannot sit back and go hungry because you think it's your mother's pot.

DMerciful:
When will they leave our oil alone?

Crooks from all works of life, from all tribes, from all political affiliations and from all religions are plundering the nation, but some imbeciles keep saying 'leave them alone' because their tiny brains always believes that arresting these crooks means indirectly attacking their region.

EasternLionn:
That efulefu Obailala will side with Yorubas, it's so unbelievable.

It is called applying common sense you slowpoke... everyone can't be a mumu all the time.

Lol...

MODS, correct your frontpage title... Reps not senate

HAhaha..

I wept when I visited Ajaokuta Steel City last year... Unfortunately, seems like there's been a massive nosedive in the global price of steel (just like oil) in the last year so it would even be more difficult to revive the steel mills now.

patmaine:
you 're naive

Feel free to say so... In fact, I totally agree with you and your ilk, the yorubas in connivance with the FG have ensured for decades that every other port in Nigeria dies except the over crowded port in yorubaland. Very brilliant analysis!

Anyway, permit me to say you are a typical African; every problem (even a headache) is viewed as an orchestration of your enemies to harm and frustrate you. But bro, where has that sort of mentality left your continent?

ShowYourCertificate:
This is what you get by voting in a Dullard as president. Someone who didn't even write and pass Economics in his WASC. God please save this country from doom.

This is what you get when you voted in a clueless man who met a very rich nation but plunged it into pathetic debt after 5 years.

fitzmayowa:
He did not make the allegation and yet he was quoted as making the allegation, why didn't the media quote ambode of making such allegation or even PMB Don't let your sycophancy blind you to the truth...

I am sure you are an educated person.... kindly go and read the original statement and then later go and read the way newspapers reported twisted it and then finally come back and read this clarification.

I understand you hate the man for obvious reasons, but this particular issue (not the other issues) is a very clear and elementary case of reporters being sensational/unprofessional and reporting bullcrap in order to sell papers.

A lot of mumus here... even after clarification, people are already still just want to give negative comments... Losers!

fitzmayowa:
I guess oshiomole was high on skunk when he came up with allegations right Yeye dey smell...

Dahveydson:
Oshiomole fast becoming a political nuisance.

Some of una brain sef.... Did you read oshiomoles first statement which was reported wrongly?.... now he has been forced to come and clarify that he never made the statement which the pencom people were responding to ystrday and you are here shouting nuisance?... Anyway, this is what happens when u just hate someone. It is allowed

If Femi Falana was rendering his legal services and was being paid for legal services rendered, I wonder what this thread or this report is really about.

Cramjones, if a lawyer delivering legal services and being paid for it is what you call 'standing for stomach infrastructure', then I'm sorry, you are making no sense.

patmaine:
who will not allow it to happen in Lagos. why did they allow it to happen in warri and port Harcourt.


quit propaganda for the masters. the more u talk the more hypocritical you sound

Just to clear the air, I do not believe in all the conspiracies that people throw around in Nigeria about any zone being deliberately frustrated by others. I do not subscribe to that sort of paranoia or persecution-complex, you can call me naive if you like. As far as I am concerned, the problem of Nigeria is corruption and mismanagement and it is very clear to all who will not allow themselves to be held menatally captive by ethnic sentiments. Corruption and mismanagement is what killed the warri and PH ports. The only reason the Lagos port is still functional today is because it is the only port left in the country and the country cannot afford to live without a port. A private consortium builds a sea-port in Nigeria today and you would watch as the Lagos port dies a natural death. NITEL died only after private companies came on board, Nigeria Airways died only because private airlines came on board. YOu are not a stranger to the mismanagement and corruption in Nigeria. This is not rocket science.

stanech:
Inotherwords the fg will only face the problem when it gets to Lagos is that not a deliberate effort to frustrate the zone.
You are talking about the actions of the youth but not talking about the fact that it all started when other oil companies and other multinationals operating in the area would rather fill up their companies with other tribes leaving the owners of the land without jobs.

I think the federal government should make efforts to install a viable seaport in Ph and provide all the necessary machinery to make it work. It won't be that difficult to do.
PS all these illegal levy collection is still going on in the southwest especially in Lagos so don't make it sound like it is a ss problem

The FG facing the Lagos port is not because it is Lagos, rather the FG faces the LAgos port because it is the last surviving port. It is not because the governent likes Lagos so much and hates the SS or SE as you allude, it is only because the FG cannot afford to lose the last surviving port, that is why the lagos port is still functional. I'm sure you are not a stranger to the poor maintainance culture and general mismanagement which we are known for in Nigeria?... The day Nigeria gets a private sea-port somewhere (alternative), that is the day you will see the Lagos port die a natural death. NITEL died when private phones came, Nigerian airways and many other institutions owned by the government died a natural death the moment a non-government managed alternative came on board. So please let us stop displaying this paranoia and persecution-complex by thinking the government does whatever it does deliberately to frustrate any zone; the problem is corruption and mismanagement and it stares us all in the face. A combination of issues which includes poor management, corruption and also insecurity (in recent times) crippled the ports in the NigerDelta.

Now regarding the bolded part of your statement, this is the exact mentality in the ND that crippled the region. When misguided criminal youths were wrecking havoc and chasing investors awaay, instead of the elders to caution them, they cheered them on claiming this same flawed excuse that the youths did not have jobs when indeed the real story was that the youths involved in this mess were the ones who never wanted to work.

cuteboy2:
Underutilisation of Ph, Warri, Onitsha, Koko and Calabar ports preceded militancy in Niger Delta.

Calabar port was a classic example. Underutilisation started since Shagari email during 2nd Republic when NPA refused to dredge the approach to the port even when money is voted money annually for it. They simply chopped the money. Second matter that killed Calabar port was bad Road linking Calabar to the North and the Eastern heartland. Importers suffered huge loses due to falling trailers and stuck trailers, so they stopped patronising the port.

The security problems I talk about are not restricted to militancy; militancy only started recently. I am not also absolving the government of the blame either. But What I am saying is simple, a combination of reasons (including insecurity) crippled the ports in the NigerDelta. Lagos is the only surviving port today not because those other issues are not present, but simply because it is the last surviving port and the nation cannot afford to have it go down.

stanech:
so if those pirates decide to attack Lagos should we now close our Lagos ports? are u saying our fg can't protect our water from mere pirates?

if they can attack warri and pH why can't they attack Lagos .
bros again

It would not be allowed to happen in Lagos, in fact, it cannot happen in Lagos and I can explain why. You know what happens when you are pushed to the wall?.. You simply turn back, face the problem headlong and fight. Lagos being the last surviving port, it cannot be allowed to go down because of its necessity.

In the 90's, Warri used to be a great business hub for oil and gas companies. There was hardly any major oil company which didnt have operations or offices in Warri. But insecurity upon insecurity made the town unattractive and chased businesses away. Belligerent youths would stroll into a company yard and demand the companies to 'settle' or to pay development levy a.k.a 'deve'. It got so ridiculous that even private businesses and individuals weren't left out. Consequently, companies started leaving one by one and even recently, the almighty shell has also left and rendered the town desolate.

Now most of these companies relocated to PH and Lagos and then the same problem faced in warri arose in PH. But guess what?... companies were tired of moving around, Some which couldn't cope ran to Lagos, others were just forced to live with it. Why am I saying all these stories?... If the same problem which forced importers to run to Lagos comes to Lagos, there would be no where else to run to hence the problem would be tackled headlong.

stanech:
this is the silliest thing I have ever read. how do the oil companies carryout oil exploration in these areas then if it is that bad

It is not a silly explanation. Sea piracy is a MAJOR problem in these areas. I know personally about the warri port; piracy killed the port. Not long ago when sea pirates were attacked by the air force, certain group of people criticised the attack on pirates because their heads are only configures to see things through the microscopic prism of politics/ethnicity; they defended the criminals because they felt since the president was from the north then he had no right to fight even southern criminals.

Bro, security in the water ways was one of the biggest problems which cripled the ports in the Niger delta. Oil companies you refer to have the money and they pay billions yearly to secure their vessels and properties. Private business men dont have that kind of caash.

Bitterleafsoup:
More people are dying monthly under GMB but you will never criticize them will you.

Woe to those who out of bitter emotions, begin to judge others without substance. Are you now insinuating that I support the killings?

The security situation we find ourselves today is a sorry situation which was occasioned by a leadership which was criminally incompetent. It is also an offspring of decades of imbecilic leaders in the north who have impoverished and ensured their people are illiterates. The damage has been done already and it will take a long time to fix it. I would be silly if I start cruxifying a government which just got in few months ago and which is systematically doing what it can to fix the present problem which took years of neglect to develop. I would be silly to expect a badly degenerated problem to MIRACULOUSLY be fixed automatically.

The hatred these wailers and Jonathanians have for this man Amaechi is mind boggling. Makes one to wonder if he's the only one who single-handedly kicked GEJ out.

drss:
why are u people so obsessed with GEJ

As long as you are talking of Nigerian politics, you cannot do so without making constant references to GEJ. How can you know where you are going if you don't know where you've been?... How can you access your progress/retrogression if you don't make references to where you've been?

As a matter of fact, the thread you are posting in makes reference to GEJ indirectly.

greaterlove:
Have you not noticed how the rice investors stormed nigeria these past years? The most important thing is to encourage the local manufacturer, make going into rice production more attractive so that those who smuggle it will be discouraged. Why do we make the same mistakes over and over again?

Just like I said earlier, the most basic economic principles are not applicable in Nigeria so stop referring to those principles.... The most basic principles say if you block importation, you will encourage local production. But in Nigeria, if you block importation, you only encourage smuggling and enrich smugglers without having any commensurate effect on local production. Our borders are porous, until Nigeria is able to block and secure its borders effectively, every act of banning is nothing but an enrichment for smugglers.

On the other hand, there is a close alternative to outright banning and that is imposition of high duties. An importer would rather pay #12 to customs to legally import his goods with peace of mind instead of paying #10 to smugglers. At the end, the government gets revenue and with the high price of imported goods, local producers still have a good market.

greaterlove:
God i can't believe some of the comments I am reading here, some are more concerned with the price of rice coming down but are not even thinking about the number of farmers and workers that will loose their jobs on the long run.
Why are we so short sighted in this country, what happens to all the rice mills that have been set up and those under construction? What happens to their workers if they close shop? We demand for self reliance but do we think self reliance will come in a platter of gold. Kai! NAija why do we like going round in circles?

With the very high duties imposed, foreign rice would be much more expensive and this still gives room for competition for local rice producers.

You need to understand something, this is Nigeria where certain basic economic principles do not apply. The ban wasn't really enforced and through the years has only favoured some rich crooks. The ban did not reduce the quantity of rice finding its way into the country, but instead of coming through the proper channels and paying duties to the government, the money which should go to government rather goes to smugglers and corrupt customs officials. This move is simply a means of earning revenue for the government whilst still encouraging local production (by slamming high duties on imported products).

SenseiX:
Do you actually think before commenting or are you a programmed robot to automatically kiss ass no matter how stupid the proposal is.

This has basically destroyed all Jonathan and Adesina's efforts to boost local rice production.
Only big time rice smugglers like the Vaswani brothers would benefit from this. As always, Change .

gassdon:
Bad policy against local farmer/producer.

This government turn things upside down!

God give APC some sense!

DeKen:
Is this really good?

Khez:
Bad policy... This will destroy our local production...... .....smh

wendixx:
Very bad policy. Why can't they consult experts before doing this. People are already complaining that there are no jobs, the local rice industry that is trying to survive, you decide to cripple it.
Hmmm.. These people have not told us what their hidden agenda for this Nation is Oh!!

Anyway, one thing I know; "THERE IS GOD"!

dckng16:
Is this taking us forward or backward?

There is an economic reason behind lifting of the ban; it will make money for the government. It is debatable though if this will affect local rice production positively/negatively. However, I will place my bet on this to positively help local production due to the very high duties presently being introduced.

Nigeria does not still produce enough rice to meet its local consumption, therefore, most of the rice we consume is still imported. Even with the ban in place, Nigeria still imports roughly the same quantity of rice but instead of the rice importers paying import duties to the government, they simply pay this money to smugglers. With the lifting of the ban, a lot of importers would rather pay duties to the customs instead of spending roughly the same amount as bribe to smugglers (who are mostly even customs officers). With the higher duties being imposed now, imported rice would still be more expensive and this would give room for competition for local rice.

In summary, nothing much has changed in terms of encouraging/discouraging local production however, the monies which hitherto accrued to smugglers would now accrue to the government.

God help us!

Overland, why?!

PDP and the wailers crew trying too hard to plagiarise criticisms of APC

But there's hardly no basis for comparison or defence of some of the indefensible gaffes of GEJ's regime.

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Lol.. To these people, anyone who has served in government before in any capacity can no longer be called a technocrat.

Lol... Well I thank God they are all now clearing the air and accepting that GEJ's government was pathetically corrupt. They only denied it all these while because the denial was expedient to their interests.... Now everyone is confessing the truth because it is clear that continuing in denial is no longer beneficial and only makes one look silly. I'm still waiting for my kinsmen from across the Niger though to clear the air too.

This is not good at all... Are there no humans in the NFF to wade into this situation?... Enyeama remains a hero and if he is let to go like this, then its a huge shame.

kaorama:
Rubbish, if it were GEJ he would have craved to use it to score a cheap political point

Some also attempted to use this yesterday for cheap political points. But the difference is that a responsible leadership apologises and neutralises the bad blood before it even flows into the public domain.

What makes a great man is not what happens to him, but rather, his reaction to things that happen to him. If GEJ had sensible advisers, most of the things he was criticised for could have been spun around to his benefit.

TonyeBarcanista:
Of what use is this hypocritical apology? Irresponsible and inhuman government

Every leader causes traffic gridlock when they come into town, but this is the first time in my life I'm hearing of a Nigerian leader apologise for this inevitability; it's clearly a case of maturity.

See the thieves identifying with their own...

..and finally, the Lion sails through