₦airaland Forum

Have you ever been to Warri before now? or you just based your line of arguments on stories and pictures from newspapers?

Seeing is believing my friend, you've got to come around here first and get first hand experience before you'd be allowed to draw a line.

HA,
Ever taken that Ijebu food before?

Well, I've eaten so much beef and goat meat in the past years that doctors warn me to cut down. I went for a test and they told me my blood cholesterol level is on the rise and should cut down.

They told me to go for fish and non animal fat foods. So, I've settled for fish and skinned chicken for now, until I slimmed down again (partly the reason why I don't want to post my pic - I'm fat, very fat and chubby cheeked!)

@Maki,
Are you from Kalabari? I once ate one delicious kalabari soup the other day at one restaurant in Portharcourt. Very delicoius it was, joke apart, I believe the Niger Delta people have some of the best delicacies in Nigeria.

@cold(Hot)stepper,

I'm sorry, but I've got to take it seriously with you. This site hosts more than 20,000 people of diverse background and nationalities. When you say something bad about a place, like you just did up there, you send negative messages across to prospective investors and other well meaning people about that place.

That's why it's good to choose your words, and know when to speak and not speak. You're still young, just take that from me as an advice.

I've never had any ocassion to join issues with you on this forum. But I must let you know that I dislike people who use foul words on others or things that matters to others. I also know that there are bad places all over the world, even in the US. So, don't make our own look so bad.

@Larger,
Thank you very much. Are you still interested in this survey of yours or you just want to turn the thread to another Niger Delta topic for discussion? Please go to the Political section and read all you need to know on the Niger Delta problems there.

And in any case, the Niger Delta people do not need anybody to ''release'' what rightfully ''belongs'' to them before we get to develop our lands and people. We would rather do the ''development'' ourselves.

Mine's Bob Fitts. Others include Evie, Marilyn Baker and Candi Staton.

Hotstepper:
warri on the other hand, is one of da worest cities with riots etc, alwayz a problem dere

Hotstepper:
delta is one of the poorest regions in nigeria upon all the oil

Coldstepper or whatever you call yourself,
I beg your pardon, someone's doing a survey in here. And you're not the person. You'd do well to mind your business and stop casting aspersions on what matters most to someone else.

No matter what you say or think, the Delta region (meaning, the Niger Delta region) is that region where most of the wealth of Nigeria comes from. It's through the wealth of that place that most Nigerians (including yourself) have been able to have a lifeline - you may not understand.

And in spite of the negative public description that region has acquired over the years, well meaning people all over the world knows that the people in that region are peace loving people who'd rather their rights are not trampled on but will lay down their lives to claim what's rightfully theirs for now and future generations yet unborn.

I'll urge you to withdraw that negative statement about Warri and the Delta region credited to you .

You said you're from Anambra. Well, I know Anambra has passed through hell in recent times. All the godfatherism + gangsterism of Ngige and Uba is still very fresh in our minds. The Okija saga is still very fresh too. Let me hold my tongue before I go ballistic with you.

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I want to evaluate nairaland demography,

What state are u from?
What is good about your state?
What is bad about your state?
Do you have a another nationality apart from nigerian national?

I was born at Ibadan in Oyo State, but I'm from Delta State

Delta State is the largest oil producing state in Nigeria. Full of diverse ethnic nationalities, blessed with lots and lots of tourist attraction sites. One of the coastal states in the country with very high potential of turning to the Texas of the US one day

I don't know of any bad thing about my state. And I believe there's none.

I do not have any other nationality. And I don't want any other from the one I have now.

kimba:
Doesnt anyone here know that alcohol kills brain-cells. The more you consume, the more deadbrain cells are there upstairs. I wonder whether loosing one's mind is an option we would want.

My advise for people usually is this:
if you want to do something, or
if you have done something, and
your heart cautions you against your action(past or future),
but still the "I" in you still wants to do what you want to do,
regardless of your conscience or even people's advice,
it is extremely and awfully wrong to take the Bible and find a way to justify yourself.

@Uche1
Please tell them.

Kimba, remember, hypocrites will go to Hell Fire too. Don't get me wrong, I did not mention names o. That said, you must understand that:

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

As long as we are in this world, in the flesh, your spirit as a man/woman will always strive against the Spirit of God. It takes the likes of a regenerated man to fend off, or at least minimise the power of the flesh againt the Spirit of God.

You need to know that as Christians, we are enjoined to be moderate in all of the things we do in life (dressing, drinking, partying, sports etc etc), before all men. Moderation is the key here:

Philippians 4:5
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

One can easily infer from the above passage that taking too much food can lead to sin.  It's just unfortunate that unbelievers have capitalise on some verses of the scriptures to think they can do anything they like.

Pertaining to this drinking as a Christian thread, I personally do not drink in public. The best I can do is a bottle of Malta Guiness to cool off. At home, I can take Irish wine and some other low alcohol content drinks. Believe me, these drinks have a way of refreshing me. And you must understand that some drugs in syrups (liquid form) often have a certain percentage of alcohol in them - go ask a Pharmacists, they will tell you.

So, I advice that as a Christian let your moderation be known to all men, everywhere you go. Drink when you need to and don't get drunk.

Erm I don come back.
Wey all da Waffi people on this board? Oya, make all the ladies/girls from whether na Bendel or Edo/Delta, begin demonstrate for all da people here how to prepare correct Ukodo with solid dry fish. I don try am during Easter, and I wan eat am everyday.

I dey wait.

@Uche,
Bros, how then would you explain the below verse?

1 Timothy 5:23  
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

I believe it's good to take wine. But not in excess, because when it's in excess, you get drunk and do many awful things. Just like the scriptures encourages us below:

Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit

Now, this entry is the best so far, from a non Niger Deltan.

Thank you and Godbless.

And then this:


THE recurring Niger Delta crisis would have been redressed five years ago if the recommendations of a presidential committee on the issue were implemented, The Guardian has learnt.

Some of the recommendations were in line with the demands of the Niger Delta militants and some recommendations of the recent National Political Reforms Conference (NPRC).

It was chaired by then Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Alexander Ogomudia, and had as members all the Service Chiefs, secretaries to the governments of the oil-producing states, representatives of the oil companies and government agencies. The committee, which was known as "The Special Security Committee on Oil Producing Areas", was inaugurated on November 8, 2001.

According to volume one of the report, which was submitted to the President on February 19, 2002, solutions to the intractable crisis were grouped into immediate/short-term, medium and long-term.

The long-term solutions were industrialisation of the area and repeal of the Land-Use Act, Petroleum Act, Gas Re-injection Act and other laws that dispossess oil-producing areas of their land.

The short-term measures included upward review of the 13 per cent derivation to at least 50 per cent, mobilisation of youths to form labour vanguard for community development and training of indigenes of oil-producing communities for employment in the oil companies.

Communities were to be made to diversify into agricultural production unique to their environment while laws to make it mandatory for the creation of manufacturing companies to produce local content for oil companies were to be enacted.

The provision of marine/coastal mass-transit transportation system in the region and immediate take-off of the trans-coastal highway from Ondo State to Cross River State were also recommended.

On the medium term, the government was advised to carry out control of ocean surge and submergence of coastal areas, erosion control, sand-filling of swamps to create new towns, provision of social amenities such as electricity, water and roads, among others.

Before making the recommendations, the committee visited the nine oil-producing states and got input from major stakeholders.

The committee was specifically set up by the Federal Government "to address the prevailing situation in the oil-producing areas which have, in recent past, witnessed unprecedented vandalisation of oil pipelines, disruptions, kidnapping, extortion and a general state of insecurity, especially of the oil and gas industry."

Five years after, most of the recommendations of the committee have not been implemented.

Source:
http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article05

ddd

I think the word ''rich'' have to be properly defined in here for one to truly grasp the direction of this thread.

Does riches here means having a lot of money, much more than what Bill Gates have to offer, or just enough to take care of a woman's needs?
Does riches here applies to one who's endowed with such godly characters that he/she is a pleasant personality to be by.
Or, does it have to do with some form of personality traits that's appealing to a lady/man, such that you'd want to say: Is it right for one to marry someone who's rich in very good outward disposition?

Or, does this ''riches''embrace all that's written above.

Please clarify.

Breeze don dey blow, fowl yantch don dey open. And make everybody take cover, because the stench wey go commot from fowl yatch fit run belle.

Odeku:
I don't blv this its all a hoax, take the heat off him and people will concentrate on others who support the idea, investigate him deep, every one has a shady deal some how

Thank you Odeku. My brother, Owo, is calling on you to contribute meaningfully on something else, other than OBJ and his stooges. We want you to expend more energy on better things than him.

See:Where Are All The Obasanjo Apologists?

Seun:
Hello Owo,

I regret the third term plot, the arbitrary laws, the disobedience of court orders. It's a pity that the people vying for OBJ's position are only worse.

Seun.

Well, for once, our honourable admin has deemed it fit to condescend and ''regret'' joining the camp of OBJ's bootsuckers. I'm waiting for more of them to come here and apologise to this honorable ''house'' called NL.

SHF:
Warri, born and bred (well till I was 8 anyway)

Hey! SHF (Now, what in da worldz does that mean?), you Warri born n bred? whooosh!! Waffi babe, I hail o o o o o.

Just give them that kain pepper soup wey be say na for only Waffi you fit get am. Remember da solid Ukodo and correct goat meat or Ukodo with solid dry catfish. And that kain one wey be say you put palm oil nearby the Ukodo. Geez men, ha, make una come hold me before I go begin go wild with hunger!!!

davidylan:
yeah, no wonder most of the girls i went to school with were not too bothered with their grades as we were. All they needed to do was "ask God" to give them a Rich (er sorry, successful and ambitious) man!
Poor guys can't ask for "ambitious" girls or rich ones either, they have to work their asses off for some chick to come in and reap where she did not sow. So she can divorce you at the drop of a hat and still be entitled to half of the things you slaved for years to achieve!
No wonder when i asked the girl i first got serious with what her future plans where after school all she could tell me was "go to my father's house and wait to get married!
No ma'am, she does not speak the truth only what YOU want to hear!

Little wonder most guys are marrying well into their 30s, no wonder many girls are finding it "difficult" to find a "good" man to marry. The word "good" now comes with being "rich" (sorry successful). May i ask the girls who want "rich" husbands what they are bringing to the marriage?
Themselves, two aged parents, 5 brothers and sisters and countless cousins, uncles and aunts? For one guy to take care of?

Marriage is all about genuine love (agape type that seeks what you can do for the other and not what they can do for u) and compromise! It is less about what he has in his pockets.

I won't advise my cousin to marry an unambitious pauper, i won't be advising her to include "must be rich" as a criteria either!

Now, david, has answered the question the right way.

But, is any of you guys here married? It would be nice to hear from the experienced folks, don't you all think so? It's easy sitting down there and typing away what you think is right or wrong. But real life experience , especially from those married to[b] rich? [/b] folks will hit the nail on the head.

What's he talking about?

So, Chelly, myself and Kajad are saying thesame thing.

There's something ''African'' in you. And I think you should come home to Africa, where you'd get all that you need. Don't believe in all those false talk about Africa in the US. They are grossly misleading. You'd surely like it in here.

Besides, if Nigerians are the folks who kept coming around, it's because it has been generally acknowledged the world over that we are the ''happiest people on earth''. And they want you to take part in that enjoyment bliss in here. Now, isn't that some record to behold? and wouldn't you like spending the better part of your life with happy people? Just think about it. And also, just to let you in on Nigeria, there other better tribes in Nigeria. We have the Kanuris, the Ijaws, Isokos, Itsekiris, Urhobos, Ogoni's Oron, Ibibios, (of the Niger Delta stocks - rich and peace loving people of this world).

You'd get all you need in Africa. Just come ''home'', and you'd be glad you did.

@Zahy,

Chelley wants to know why most of the guys who's been chasing her around are mostly Africans, especially Nigerians of the Igbo and Yoruba stock. She's ''surprised or bothered'' that most African American brothers in the US do not take such interest in her.

I thot that's very easy to grasp, or am I missing something, Chelley?

Chelley, I guess you have some looks and feel that's African. And I think the African in you wants you to come ''home'' to Africa and settle in there. Maybe that's where you're destined to have all you need to live well on earth.

Just ma 2 cents.

Seun:
That was a joke. All women are emotional. I'm trying to suggest that a woman avoiding the kind of men listed in the first post is probably avoiding all men!

For once, Seun, I can say we at least agree on one thing, so far. All men posses one or more of these attributes listed by the doctor. So, how in the world will the women cope, when they avoid[b] all [/b] the men?

Doctor, come to our rescue.

I'm surprised the likes of lady GL, vongauche, Fdeveloper and other OBJ apologist + praise singers have suddenly backed down. I'm eagerly waiting for you guys respond.

@Demmy,

It's unfortunate that you can't seem to come to terms with this ''big picture'' view.

All these Okerenkoko, Jones Creeks and other deals stated in the news above yields little or nothing compared to the bulk of the money that goes to Abuja. You don't seem to understand Owo stance here. Billions of dollars and Naira goes from the Niger Delta Heartland to feed pests,fat, rotund, ugly and loud mouthed idiots at the corridors of power in Abuja, Lagos, Kano and Kaduna and other non oil producing areas.

All those peanuts Otuaro and brothers realise from sweeping flowstations and packing waste is just nothing compared to what thieves at the loading Terminals report to their Ogas at Abuja. You'd better come to terms with reality, my friend and stop being myopic.

The 13 percent derivation to oil producing states + Otuaro and brothers deals with oil majors + Other such deals + bunkering + community MOUs kick backs + Ghost workers payment in the Delta + Others not known in the delta is less than < (insignificant, actually)  Federal Govt take + Oil majors take in the oil deals in the Delta.

I hope that knocks out your outbursts.

gbogzy:
i don't think there is any man on earth that hasnt cheated on his wife.this is because if he doesnt cheat on his wife by his actions he does so in other ways,like in his thoughts when he sees another woman.

Well, then cheating is a ''relative'' term, right?