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@Jakumo; Na you biko.

when a man who has been doing good suddenly does a bad deed; all the good things are forgotten. Lets wait for him to leave Aso Rock before looking at history.

Nigeria will not be divided. The People that say they are in power should provide basic amenities to the citizenry.

The state governors are lame ducks without any authority in their states of jurisdiction as the consitution has given control of the mineral resources to the federal government.

3 weeks ago the delta state house of assembly invited the management of Agip to come and explain why they have refused to clean up an oil spill 6 months after it had occured. This Oil company was still producing from that location inspite of the oil spill. This is not the first time that Agip will do a thing like that in Delta State. The GM refused to appear sending instead the head of Public Relations a Nigerian who has little authority or influence. In any case they have been giving one month to clean up the environment and pay compensation to the affected peaceful communities or leave the entire delta state. This type of thing can never happen in Italy. Its a known fact that a Federal High Court has ordered shell to compensate the Ijaws which they have refused to do.

I don't like generalizations such as the statement made by the last commentator.

It is a known fact that the entire bayelsa state is not connected to the federal national grid yet they contribute the second largest money to the federal purse.

What about the federal east - west road which connects all the coastal states? This road which accounts for the highest number of traffic including trailers, oil tankers evacuating refined petroleum products and crude oil and heavy moving vehicles carrying large oil installation fittings like pipes is in a constant state of disrepair and remains undualized

if you look at the locations of the headquarters of these oil companies, they are all in lagos with the exception of shell which just moved to Port Harcourt. In the end its the Yoruba and Igbo men that are in top management employing their fellow country men. Which job did u say is reserved for us the niger deltans - it is the messengers, cleaners and drivers shey? No be una fault.

that was how you people controlled admission into such universities as the ones at Lagos, Ife, Ibadan and Zaria plus Nsukka so that we will be underdeveloped but it was to our benefit as we had our own universities established for us at Benin and Port Harcourt with many of us going abroad for further studies.

I gave a lift to a soldier who was going home to the 2nd Amphibious Brigade (Bori Camp) at Port Harcourt from his posting in the creeks. He explained that all the soldiers in that barracks and the one at Elele are all now on duty (infact the 14 dead where all from Elele zone) at various oil installations in the Niger Delta at whose expense you may ask (the oil companies) cos the federal government is too busying holding public hearings on the 1999 constitution.

I don't like violence but we should not twist the facts. How much dollars did the groundnut, cocoa and whatever contribute as a whole. Do your research and then compare it with only the excess crude money to see if it will even reach 1/10.

The federal authorities should provide basic amenities in the whole of Nigeria and especially in the Niger Delta which contributes over 80% of the total revenue in the last 36 or more years.

looking at the recent disturbances in the north; a lot of parents have started clamouring for the scrapping of the program. infact what is happening now is massive redeployment back to their southern bases by those who have the cash and connections.

the bill has been sent back for rewording; i don't believe it will scale through though.

this sounds like a whole lot of theory

i doubt this story.

What is N17.5m?

If it was N17.5b, it would have been better.

Indeed ethnic group, class and religion matter in a case of love and marriage so that one is not unequally yoked. Some ethnic groups in Nigeria demand as much as five hundred thousand naira when it comes to the marriage project and as such i will be very careful when the time comes for love because i think its absurd. Not to talk of the fact that this particular ethnic group will make sure you train all the sibblings in addition to other "useless" demands.

i doubt the authencity of this report. The United States cannot invade Nigera because its an impossibility.

s there any thing as non - violent muslim? the death toll is much more than 16; not to talk of the property distruction. i don't advise any southerner especially non - muslim to go up north except for the purpose of NYSC (which you can influence). Most of the NYSC camps are now refugee camps cos the displaced people have moved in there cause the Federal Government moved in Soldiers to Protect the Youth Corpers.

i 'll give it to Calabar; the governor is really doing some work in that place. Port Harcourt is a disgrace, the roads are filled with pot holes wherein mud has been trapped. With no drainage and blocked gutters, it stinks during and after each rain fall which falls almost all the time. The areas around ikwerre road (including diobu). The dumpsites are overflowing with toxicity and stench. Can you imagine me praising God on sunday with one hand in the air and the other covering my nose cos of the fumes from a dumpsite about 7km away from the church.

its very terrible in the dry season, but if u venture out there in the rainy season the smell will surely intoxicate you.

Please don't mention PSquare when dance is concerned, those guys are a disgrace to innovation. They want to dress like Usher. They want to look like Usher. They want to dance like him. They want to sing like him.

its almost about all been reduced to a sort of makossa. play gospel, pop, r&b, juju, etc and you will see most nigerians doing the waist - leg movement.

I think its ABA. The whole place looks like a market and its so dirty.

It is WELL

its a real pity.

I don't think so.

none

those guys are not christians they are hoodlums

there will not be any war - torn country. we are very peaceful people.

the issue in nigeria is not hatred for the other tribe or religion but ignorance and illiteracy which has brought about by profound poverty. for the records, no christian has killed any muslims; rather it is hoodlums of unknown origins that are perpetrating the violence in onitsha.

There is a lot of ignorance about the true situation of things in Nigeria. Most of you talking here have not been to the Niger Delta and am not refering to those contraptions e.g. Port Harcourt, Warri, Yenagoa or Bonny. I am not an advocate of violence but there has been a miscarriage of justice by the multinationals and out political elite be them in agbada or khaki. There is no longer respect for the rule of law and the people who have been suffering for so long are now reacting based on their level of exposure. We should pray for the peace of Nigeria - a country that has just paid $12bn to her creditors yet lacks electricity, health care facilities, transportation facilities, portable drinking water.

No, this is violence is a product of illiteracy.