₦airaland Forum

Apart from edo,cross river and akwa ibom, the rest of the Niger -delta are so overrun by Ijaw criminals and militias, that it will take a leader with an iron fist and will to pacify those places.
These guys and the politicians who support them have turned the place into a festering sore.
They have rendered much of these states desolate that the only investors ready to put any money there are into high risk / high reward ventures ( oil and gas).

WeNigerDelta:
To those saying the militants are further degrading our environment...Over 10,000 oil spills has happened in the Niger Delta, how many was cause by militants? And those profiting from it have they bothered to clean up jack?
To those asking what our governors have done with 13%, we know they are thieves and don't hide it. What have y'all done with our 87% you share to yourselves...We have been to places like Texas and seen what have been done with less than what we have.
To those saying the regular Niger Deltan don't support this. The attacks have taken place so far in Warri Southwest, have you heard anything from the Olu of Warri or Pere of Gbaramatu?
Have you been to our villages and creeks to even see the rot of the place that has fed y'all for decades now. You ingrates....As long as your brothers get cushy offshore jobs and are flown in with choppers you could care less...
To those saying they should shut oil production down and find other means of revenue...Please God in heaven should make that happen, that's our prayers. We will wait for our allocation and give y'all 13% since you think that's good enough...
We have fed the nation for long enough, give us full resource control. It is our God given right...

Most of it and Because of their activities, they have given the foreign oil companies the excuse or something to blame

Either uphold the supremacy of the state or just give up.
In doing so, you are either ready to throw the kitchen sink and be ready to lose everything or continue on the path of destruction.
No sane country can continue to compensate lawlessness and be expecting to develop.
The country is losing trillions of naira because of the refusal to write off the Niger -delta as a source of revenue and gas.
Same thing with the fulani herdsmen refusal to change from their nomadic lifestyle.
Carrot and stick is the approach of the elites benefitting from the fraudulent Nigeria as it is.
They want the gravy train to continue.
An upright state and leader uses the stick and the stick alone
All these groups
Boko haram
Fulani herdsmen
Ipob
ND oil criminals
And ethnic militia like OPC, APC,Bakassi bit are resting that supremacy.

AntiMahdi:
Ondo produces a paltry 30,000bpd and oil wells are located in Ijaw communities bordering Delta State and moreso, the oil fields in ondo only came into production during the last term of Obasanjo.


So don't compare yourselves to Niger Delta that has seen over 40 billion barrels extracted since 1970.


By the way whatever happend to that lie that your Useles cocoa industry funded the oil industry in the Niger Delta?

Ijaws have no land in Ondo state.
Our historical next door neighbour are the itshekiris, our cousin.
Because they are and will be free a free standing autonomous region/state in the future.
Keep deluding yourselves with Niger -delta Republic that includes the itshekiris.
No be gragra and mouth.
We shall see.

AntiMahdi:
As you can clearly see the Yoruba hypocrites can not do what they are demanding from us in the Niger Delta.


By God, all you Yorubas will pay for your treachery .

Spoken like a true villager.
You repeating 100 times does not make true;My lady.

By the way,
Buy yourself an handbag because you are throwing tantrums like a lady.
Branded, exported and made in...., you know where.

AntiMahdi:
Osun is self sustainable in debt .

I hear you.

The Niger delta people in your region contribute more than you touts claiming Lagos.

You claim cultured and mannered but I tell you there is no state in that your parasitic region that can match the civility of the SS .


Omonile claiming son of an owambe hopping ashewoe claiming Lagos.

We know.
Na una build am.
Now become useful.
Buy your socks from Allsocks.
Proudly branded and made in Yorubaland by an omoluabi

AntiMahdi:
The lack of regulation in the sector overseen by Yoruba and Hausas is what led to the environmental degradation .


Gas flaring has made the rain acidic .

Is it the fault for militants?

You can not exclude the Yorubas Hausa and Fulanis who dominated the sector both in govt and private firms for this monumental fckup.


I hope you won't complain when Danjuma takes over the few oil wells in the SW when we live your one useless Nijeriya for good.

Lack of regulation.
Reno omokri, IPOB radio or your father told you that?
This is because I know them as fact free zones.

Ibe Kachukwu
Madueke
Dan Etete
Don Etiebet
Tam David west
Gauis Obasaki

are not yorubas the last time I checked

those trains are only fit for cattle and that is what they should be used for.
I still do not understand why the government has not stopped passenger services on these locomotives and devote them to moving goods for now.

AntiMahdi:
So now we are responsible for over 50yrs of irresponsible drilling and gas flaring?

No worry.


Keep exposing your hatred.

Drilling is not responsible and lack of money is not responsible
It is the lawlessness and corruption.
Bunkering, security expenditure, derivation and statutory allocation,NDDC and amnesty,Niger delta ministry. We are already close to 50% derivation.

What other sacrifices?
Most of you are pouring into the SW like refugees after messing up your homes.
All our states apart from ekiti have viable non oil economy.
Civil servant can shout for all they want but non-oil activities keep going on.
Can you say the same about yours?

Keep messing up your home. Cultured people will keep doing their thing
Regards from ibadan

They know they are talking to idi*ts.
My prayer is for fate to peel us away from this God forsaken country.
Elsewhere, idio*t are kept on the fringes of participation because you know why?
They are idi*t.
And my people sure have a away of keeping idi*ts away from power.
In Nigeria, idi*ts have opinions and they make the most noise.
One thing people are not talking about that was in all of Jonathan's budget were the regular and approximately $2 billion which was always included but appropriated for nothing in the budget.
As in $2 billion to spend anyhow steal.

sunnyb0b0:
And foreign exchange will fall from the sky abi?

yep.
Just to show how useless the country is.
People do not pay taxes.
Most do not pay utility bills
Nigeria does not make anything significant for export even though, she has everything to make it happen
( kaduna state has only 540, 000 people paying for electricity in spite of a 8 million population claim).
This is replicated through out the country.

hucienda:
There is nothing more deadly and dangerous than one who has nothing to lose.

Those Avenger militants who sound like graduates are holding the state to ransom.. and the state have no option than negotiate cos they don't have the wherewithal to challenge them.

Gragra won't help the new sheriff in town. Only tact and diplomacy.

At times, you need to dismantle something before you can rebuild it.
Try starting a cement company or fruit juice company in any of these places then come back to repeat what you have just said.
The future of my people will not be tied to oil, herdsmen or people who refuse to move into the next century.
Was it not for this reason all local and foreign investors are diverting from the ND.Dangote refinery,The shipyard
Petrochemical plant etc and other companies are looking at a future with oil from other countries in West Africa.
They are all discounting the ND.

Buhari should Just shutdown the entire industry and completely write off oil as a source of revenues.
Ambode and all SW governors should ban okada,street trading and shutdown all non tax-paying business.
Only this attitude will move the country forward.
Too many people are engaged in unproductive activities and I consider oil as an unproductive activity because the only thing it does is to distort the economy.
A few are feeding fat while rest suffers.it has bred complacency and a lack of initiative.
Leaders who keep running after foreign investment while there are local youth already showing the initiatives.
Make it difficult so as to make people to start returning to their farm and rural areas.
No benefit of that industry to anybody.
Send the military over to the Creek for Sambisa training.
They now have a live fire range to practice before deployment to sambisa.
No decent Niger-deltan (emphasis on decent)that I know can tolerate these criminals.
Why?
because they more than anyone,are the major victims of the criminals masquerading militants and leaders.

Apart from gbonigi who was not present, every single person on that list would have been sentenced to a firing squad in countries like China, south Korea etc

Beware of what?
My advise to buhari.
Just shut down all oil installations in the lawless parts of the ND,
suspend all oil investments in the affected places and direct such to cross river, akwa ibom lawful parts of delta/ rivers ,Ondo, ogun and lagos
Mobilise the navy to completely blockade the coast off those places to prevent bunkering.
Send marine hit squads to search and destroy criminal activities.

What I want( easier said than done)
Buhari should completely shutdown the oil industry and build a non oil economy.
The oil business has developed a sense of entitlement in the citizens most especially the thieving.
The benefits are not getting to the people apart from a tiny parasitic elite.

In spite of the militants, Nigeria is still not serious about power.
This is the problem when almost all your policy makers lawyers and accountants.
Nigeria is losing trillions of naira by not being ambitious.

statutory transfers : I am not so keen on this.
Onigbese Jonathan in spite of high oil prices has mortgaged the future of generations. Debt servicing is a major part of the budget. Almost the same size as capital expenditure. Most of those debt were for salaries

If you like, shout you are yoruba one million times,you will never be one.

A broken a^s n**ga who all of a sudden has money to throw around.
Rot in prison

30% capital expenditure is enough change from the shambolic and hopelessly corrupt Jonathan administration already.

Example.

Jonathan awarded Road contracts of 2 trillion naira but only paid 300 billion.
The ole onigbese did not pay for 1.7 trillion naira of the ghost Road contracts he awarded

Change budget when compared to ole onigbese budget

Stockholm syndrome.
Mumu Missing the person who has mortgaged the future of generations.
Nigeria is still caught within the death spiral of shagari's mismanagement.
Free money mentality
Go and get a job.
But am not surprised. Even IBB still has his loyalist.

adeniyibolanle:
Guy I stand to tell you that out of 100% of ND's problems, 70% is from their leaders in that region and not the federal Government.

Niger delta where beer parlours are full at 9 o clock in the morning.
The place can be almost classified as dysfunctional beyond redemption.You can say the same about the Nigerian state.

Am still shaking my head at all the lack of strategic planning that goes on in that country.
Sometimes when the otherwise brilliant Fashola speaks, I wonder at times if we are looking at the same country. Where do they get their optimism from? I will like to know.My guess is the blindness along the corridors of power.
Relying on the Ijaw areas of the Niger -delta for gas is like relying on Sambisa for tomatoes.
The whole Ijaw society is as dysfunctional as criminals masquerading as activist who are running amok in the creek .
Obasanjo did what you can refer to as strategic vandalism when he converted the coal fired egbin thermal station to gas. ( Not my words, quote from an Ijaw friend who is tired of all the criminals and semi-literates who have hijacked their society)
Why?
It is time for the government to stop looking for oil else where and start looking at the coal seams in Benue and kogi,and the untapped gases all over the country.
Dams like Owena , Ado ekiti, and Rivers like Osun,Ogunpa in the southwest, River benue, Niger can support numerous upstream hydro plants.

I could care less if they send oil production to 0 and pollute all their land.
What I care about is,
Yorubaland,all the Kingdoms of Oodua, how we will extricate ourselves from that forsaken country and away from all the ethnics within.

The writer of this piece belong to the 16th century.

Who amongst omoluabis is tired of all these disrespectful ethnics?

Retail crime

Yoruba leaders dropped the ball at those pre-independence conferences big time.

Do we have local government at all?
I think it is time we focused our attention on LGA.
Newly commissioned roads but look at sand everywhere.
Tinubu and ambode need to start looking at upping the game regarding candidates for LGAs and counsellors.
Their are administrators out the who would do a better job than these goons .
All those cars parked on the street are potential sources of revenue.

Common sense
The best bit was-
"I get angry when people ask about oil "

This is the mindset I expect from any leader.
What did you do when oil price was $120 a barrel.
Hopefully , Buhari will succeed in dismantling corruption infested and unproductive dollar non-economy .
What gladdens my heart is the fact that they have been able to sustain the country on internally generated revenues , a source of income which was looted by Jonathan and his goons .
they also gave the finger to the IMF loans which , if it had been taken , would set a trap for Nigeria down the line .
If they had taken those IMF loans , all those so -called foreign investors would simply cash out and take the money out of Nigeria immediately.
Just like Greece where 95% of every loan is immediately handed to German and French banks , the rest is taken out by wealthy Greek while the Greek people people are saddled with more debt ,suffer and die of hunger.
No improvement, no benefit but more debts.
The otuoke mumu and the fraud Iweala were transforming the country with debt expended on salaries and a budget of 10% capital expenditure. Only fellow dullards will lap this up.