Obiagelli:
now this is what I call a debate, good job sincere9jerian for clearly winning this. I accept defeat for now.

. Respect

APC is soooo connected to the people

erico2k2:
And how do V knw that?

Everybody in NL knows that. I'm surprised you don't. Willy Willy even said so earlier in this thread

erico2k2:
U shouting lies,have U seen or felt crude oil in ur life?do U even know the colour?have U ever been to the creeks? I see ur mame and I knw where U frm,one of the ethnic groups the North used against the SS.the Original writer of this article is my classmate and we r frm Delta,what he wrote here is nothing less than what I woukd have written and I rep my lil town saffi which has 42 oil wells yet it aint even as big as the smallest LGA in Lagos state.

Just so you know, She's not Igbo.

Harrisonn: .YAR"ADUA AND GEJ


Now you must understand that OBJ in refusing for Odili and or Ibori to be president or vice, knew that these two individuals had too much power and money and so chose the powerless, docile GEJ to be Yar"Adua's vice.

Yar'Adua knew he had to stop this militancy which had gotten out of hand as both Abacha a military man and OBJ an ex military man's aggressive policies of engagement and killing was counter-productive. Yar"Adua saw that the country was losing billions from its reduced oil production and theft and knew he could not kill all the militants as Obasanjo tried to do in Odi which backfired both in oil production and in the eyes of the international community. So Yar"Adua proposed the perspicacious "amnesty program" which is a simple strategy to remove the majority of the youths of the Niger Delta and then he can go on to kill those who refuse to stop the militancy.

The strategy involved giving a pittance to these youths as payment and then going on to drain the oil. It worked and works still as it has led to companies returning to the creeks and oil production going back up.

Now he needed someone to broker the peace (same thing GEJ is asking of Buhari with the Boko Haram which Buhari refuses to do) GEJ went to the militants and there began his fight with Ibori.

Ibori was the only one militants listened to. People who are kidnapped even in Port Harcourt and Akwa Ibom are returned to him at Asaba. Thus Ibori was the most powerful man from the Niger-Delta, the feeders of Nigeria. Thus he wanted and indeed showed OBJ and Yar'Adua that GEJ was a neophyte and a stranger to how militancy works. He Ibori and Alamieseigha, GEJ's benefactor were the shot-callers and not this nonentity called GEJ...Vice President or not.

GEJ upon going to the militants was body-searched...told to hands up as they patted his body for guns and or wire taps. GEJ was said to have cried as he spoke Ijaw to the militants asking why they are humiliating him their own tribesman. That is he rambo that will shoot all of them?

Thus when YarAdua took the decision to bomb CAMP 5, GEJ remembering his humiliation said nothing.

Indeed, from Asari Dokubo's earlier speeches about GEJ, you will see a lack of respect that he would not dare with Ibori.

It is only now that GEJ has used the power of presidency to curtail Asari's excesses and Asari now knows to watch his statements to GEJ.

However successful the "amnesty program" has been, it has only succeeded to stop attack on oil installations and not to stop the boys from the creeks from making money. They have been exposed to the big business that oil is and really, who stops making money when he still can?

HOW THE DEALS ARE DONE

Okay, how then are these crude oil sales done? Okay check this scenario; I Ena Ofugara find Chinese here in America wanting to buy crude. I get all four of them and we arrive Warri or Yenagoa. The Chinese do not trust me as I am a Nigerian. So they never pay upfront. They keep their vessel in international waters.

Now I locate these oil sellers who have gathered enough crude from illegal refineries in Burutu, Patani and elsewhere or have cut a pipe and have drained enough to fill a vessel. I tell them I have buyers. They too do not trust me so they ask one of the four Chinese to enter their vessel and if having loaded the vessel they refuse to pay and or run off, they murder the Chinese. This is human security/collateral for their oil. They get the vessel, pulled sometimes by tugboat to international waters where the Chinese vessel is waiting and then when payment is made, the Chinese is released to them. I get my cut or I am killed...as greed and double-cross are ever present where these huge monies exchange hands.

GEJ'S CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL HELP

MORE COMING SOON

This reminds me of a verse in Psalm 118 "the stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all".

These guys humiliated Pres GEJ because they saw him as a "JUMAN". Today, where is the "BIGBOY" Ibori today.

In any difficult condition we may find ourselves today, we shouldn't give up hope neither should we look down on those we feel we are better than because of the little change in our pockets because we have seen from this post that the person(s) we may be looking down on today may latter be the most powerful man in Africa tomorrow

I think this needs to be @ the front page. Mods kindly do the needful.

Thanks

I'm short of words. Onwero uzo esi aga Obosi ka nso (there's no way/road heading to Obosi that is nearer). So there's simply no end in sight to this oil theft

Thank you OP

KIRIJI: Nigeria spend more than a trillion naira on defence budget. Nigeria spend more on security than on education yet high profile military installations are bombed as if they were boys scout outposts

I thought the defence budget is shared btw d navy, airforce, army,sss and office of d nsa? Considering what we r facing now, is dat not small?

As far as am concerned what has been happening is pure sabotage and it will take time to weed out d sabotuers.

Ihejirika is a thoroughbred professional and he stays

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ZACHIE:
how can you not know the satellite picture? are you a beginner?

nna_bu-ike has truly shown that he's a learner

Truth is ASUU will never remain the same again. They'll come out much more weakened after this.

Any government that'll take over in 2015 will take its hands off Universities/University teaching hospitals.

What's the latest on Ibaka deep seaport

aruzuoke: These days u hardly get 200#,100# and 50# notes talk more of 20# and 10#. Pls financial experts in the house can u explain to us the present scarcity of low denomination currency.

A T M

This dude wants politicians to eat his money like Ifeanyi Uba abi? This man should concentrate on his business.

ENEONWO: Ignorance is the hallmark of mediocrity! I should recommend that you read up the steps in land acquisition. Your questions at best, expose your ignorance. In law, whatever economic tree found on a man's land is enumerated for compensation. The law does not recognise what you call vagaries of nature in that. All trees, whether antropogenically raised or not (that is raised by man or not) stands on someones portion. And the person must have needed it, if he didnt uproot it at its tender stage

Sorry but i thought the owners of the land are pineapple farmers (I heard its a pineapple farming community)and as such would benefit immensely from the mexicans. I heard the mexican company will be buying the pineapples @ competitive market price.

SLIDE waxie: Idonbilivit!!!!

In ibo's voice: 'oil makes 90% of naija's GDP. Na we dey feed the nation'

Your eyes go clear...siddon dey look

Kindly ignore this man. He's trying to derail this thread. This thread is about the transformation ongoing in Nigeria and not about Tribal bashing.

Kudos to Pres Goodluck and his fresh air team

A very good development

people underestimate Peter Obi too much. If dat election was rigged, be rest assured dat Peter Obi employed d services of a panel of SAN's to advice him on how to go about d rigging dat even d best judge in d world will not find any evidence to nullify d election.

Nwoke ahu bu akpa sense

This is good news especially for the poor farmers. This company will now mop up excess rice produced.

I was told that rice Farmers didn't make much profit this year in Adani cos of so much supply from the farmers. Last year, a bag of freshly harvested rice (300kg) was sold for btw 8k - 9k but this same 300kg is now being sold for btw 4k - 6k. There are rice mills there but all na local rice mills and they're using local/archaic ways of processing.

So now with the coming of this company, rice farmers in that community go hammer. Infact more people will go into rice farming because there's an already market.

General civil servants are the worst. Its said that its the civil servants that shows the politicians how to steal money and still follow due process at the same time.

General Civil Servants = Ordinary nigerian. We've all failed

rotas: Reprom has started work on thermal plant,russians are fully mobilised on site.as usual element in ASCO want to fustrate d work.d truth is Ajaokuta has started generating power and the light section and Bar mill will start making rods and angle bars by january.d equipments has been lubricated.if u ar in ajaokuta u wl see the russians around.kudos GEJ.

God let this be true

basilo101: Adani Rice (ADARICE) will generate lots of employment bt d state is busy planting flowers in d city. Put irrigation facilities, cheap tractor hiring, a giant rice mill (u cn bring those guys frm thailand or vietnam), construct gud access roads, lobby FG 2 construct d anambra end of nsuka-adani-onitsha highway (i dnt kw y anambra ppl abandoned omanbala area) etc.

There is massive corruption going on in that Adani. Sullivan has spent billions sending hundreds of youth to benin republic for training on integrated farming. Renovating Adani (shongai) with good accomodation and land for rice farming. Sullivan has spent so much money on Agric but Commissioners Of Agric have been so wickedly corrupt (I heard he's had to relieve 2 commissioners cos of incompetence).

The Vietnamese Ambassador came in march this year and signed an MOU on behalf of a vietnames company for the resuscitation sunrise flour mill, since then no show. Now, a mexican firm is opening a pine apple juice factory in Awgu with thousands of hectares available.

Sullivan dey try sha but he can't do much

My brothers, this na real end time things (ett) .

If you don't understand, read Revelations .......

donphilopus: Keep deceiving yourself man!! How many states from the SW voted against Jonathan in 2011?? Only one which is Osun voted against Jonathan, yet CPC still tried.

2015 Election would not be based on any foolish southern agenda! So Jonathan would hardly win one state in the SW, which is Ondo. Come to the SS, PDP would try all their best in Edo, but we'll tell them that gone are those days where ballot papers would be taken to Anenih's house, so just expect a landslide victory for APC.

As for the North, Jigawa would be very hard for PDP, Plateau and Kaduna would also be very hard for them to win. The votes of Lagosians, and the entire Kano are more than the votes of the entire SE, including some parts of SS. So do not deceive your self, come 2015, we would say Goodbye To Goodluck (GTG).

By what u wrote here, i believe that the easiest way for APC to lose 2015 elecions is by making you their chief political strategist .

Ik Uche is on fire!!! He scored 2 goals today against Levante. Its an away game.

Levante 0 - 3 Villeareal

chucky234: Messi after being voted MVP at Holland 2005 was taken to the world cup in 2006 and we all saw how lost he was in the midst of mids like Ballack,Ze Roberto e.t.c.
Ronaldinho waited for 3yrs after Nigeria '99 before he was drafted into the Brazil first team enroute to the 2002 world cup hosted by Korea/Japan.
Neymar after Nigeria 2009 was given additional 2yrs before he was drafted into the Brazilian first team.
Mario Gotze was one of the outstanding players at Nigeria 2009 but his senior debut for Germany 3yrs after, Ronaldo De Lima was taken the '94 world cup in USA but never had the chance to kick the ball as the competition and expections of the world cup were far above his age and abilities,he had to wait till Atlantic '96 to announced his arrival on the world stage.
Eaglets needs a bit time to mature mentally to handle stiffer challenges like the world cup,promoting them to the U20 is the best for them.

1000likes!!!

I've always said that most nigerians don't know how to watch a football game. Senior national team of Tahiti will beat these eaglets silly. For pete's sake these boys shouldn't be rushed.

chucky234: Messi after being voted MVP at Holland 2005 was taken to the world cup in 2006 and we all saw how lost he was in the midst of mids like Ballack,Ze Roberto e.t.c.
Ronaldinho waited for 3yrs after Nigeria '99 before he was drafted into the Brazil first team enroute to the 2002 world cup hosted by Korea/Japan.
Neymar after Nigeria 2009 was given additional 2yrs before he was drafted into the Brazilian first team.
Mario Gotze was one of the outstanding players at Nigeria 2009 but his senior debut for Germany 3yrs after, Ronaldo De Lima was taken the '94 world cup in USA but never had the chance to kick the ball as the competition and expections of the world cup were far above his age and abilities,he had to wait till Atlantic '96 to announced his arrival on the world stage.
Eaglets needs a bit time to mature mentally to handle stiffer challenges like the world cup,promoting them to the U20 is the best for them.

1000likes!!!

I've always said that most nigerians don't know how to watch a football game. Senior national team of Tahiti will beat these eaglets silly. For pete's sake these boys shouldn't be rushed.

charlso1: Please, what have i done that people here will be sending series of e-mail insulting me of being selfish and coward. Please, you guys should tell me the offense i have committed in this forum. It seems that the best thing to do now is to deactivate this account to allow them to be. May God bless all you people that insult me for no course.

Oga no stress urself pls don't let it bother you. We're nigerians, we insult people (Its in our DNA). If u receive any mail that u don't like, delete it Instantly. No long tin. I thank you ffor everything. God will bless the works of your hands.

@ saintfaculty, dude I don dey put u for my prayers. You are already bless beyond ur wildest dreams. You shall not lack anything good.

@ accentuate, thank you very much. The last strategy you dropped works so well. I've been demo trading with it since monday and its a sure system (conservatively 90% success rate). God bless you.

Looking @ this thread (and even business section in general), you guys will agree with me that there's hope for this country. saint,accentuate,charslo,meritidee,bonmaster,ayox,wappy,optimitic,sunwalk,etc God bless you guys.

Lemme rush back to practice

mikeansy: Attack

Can I just add that Brown Ideye and Ahmed Musa are not as useless as folks like to suggest. Some people have to play what Arsene Wenger calls the dark role for others to flourish. Pundits and fans may not appreciate their effort but the coach does.

There will be times in world cup when we may come up against Italy with Pirlo, Spain with Alonso, Germany with Bastian schwenie or England with Gerrard . . . .the best way to attempt to alter the rhythm of the opposite teams with such world class deep lying playmakers is to put one of your strikers on them so that defenders are forced to play long balls. The best person with the presence of mind and humility to do such a dirty job without committing silly fouls is Brown Ideye. He is also very useful if we try to press the ball high up the pitch. Ideye unfortunately misses a lot of goals but his work rate for the rest of the team is one only the coach can sometimes appreciate. For this reason alone I think Ideye is already on the plane to Brazil.

Ahmed Musa . . . .ignore his pace at your own peril. I like him and I think he is a good player. When technique and tactics fail and a football match gets very cagy . . . .it takes youthful exuberance and the silly pace of players like Ahmed Musa to unlock defense. Yes he needs to work on his crosses and judgment but the ability to get behind the defense line of the opponent can sometimes be priceless. So for this reason I also think Ahmed Musa is on the way to world cup.

Apart from that the rest of the strike force is good. That's on the understanding that Oduamadi never gets an invite again. The lad is no use to super eagles.

Midfield

Nigeria must always play a 3 man midfield. Keshi must monitor Mikels mood. If he starts playing offensive midfield, let the other 2 shield the back four, if he plays deep lying playmaker let one of the other 2 midfielders move upfield and support attack. if Mikel starts getting unpredictable and attempts to gaurd the ball in the midfield against 3 opponents like he does sometimes, Keshi should kindly sub him. A midfield 3 of either Mikel-Onazi-Ogu or Mikel-Onazi-Igiebor or Onazi-Igiebor-Ogu can do the business anyday.


Defence
Time to call back Joseph Yobo. He may be old and slow but he will at least trap the ball and pass it into one of the midfielders. Egwuekwe's tendency to balloom the ball to the opponents simply returns the pressure on our defense. I recognize Egwuekwe's efforts and may be he should still go to world cup, but sure James Okwuosa and Solomon Kwambe should be sent packing. If we have no other right back in the world we can invite who can pass the ball then lets convert a midfielder or winger to play the full backs for us. Ability for the defenders to knock the ball around with the midfielders and build attack from the back is very very important. Omeruo and Oboabona do this superbly and that's why their combo is irreplaceable.

Where did you get your coaching badge? Your analysis are spot on especially as regards Ideye and musa.

If we have no other right back, I suggest we invite Captain of Golden eaglet. Solomon kwambe embarrased us. Let's bring back yobo and Apam (if he's fit), egwuekwe is not yet ready @ all.

It'll be unfair on the part of keshi if he goes to world cup with Oduamadi and Mba. In place of this 2, lukman, joel obi and Aluko should be invited and tried.

For those clamouring for Ik Uche, I don't think he fits into keshi's plan. Keshi prefers big, strong strikers. Keshi may even prefer Anichebe to Uche because Uche is not big and may not track back to chase balls if eagles loose possesion. Dike, Ameobi,Emenike,Ideye,etc all track back to chase d ball whenever we loose possession

MORN DEW: Nigerians pls lets improve on our knowledge dis election has alredy decided i can tel u. Do u knw y d guys frm Justice nd equality Organisation were arrested? Its cos they ar world class electoral observers wit spy cameras dat can capture any riggin dey did it for aregbesola. On election day El-rufai was detained all to rig elections. We shud stop all dis praises its nt abt apc bt our lives let inec explain y d materials arrived late nd y ppl cant find there names dos dat mean dat apga supporters all verified there names? Ppl pls use ur brain. Dis is y dey hv kept us d student @ home so we wud b so low in knowledge we hv to stand up youths nd end dis.

I thought video evidence is not admissible in our law courts under the electoral act?

Kingsley1000: this's not even an election..,apga members are so desperate to grab power...using money(bait) to get votes

It wasn't only APGA that was sharing money. All the major conteneders shared money on election day. An observer on Channels TV said it just few minutes ago