₦airaland Forum

Progressive01:
Another waste of time. I feel for whoever get their monies involved in this charade as the courts would still nullify it just as they have every other action taken by this imposter.

Sheriff is the rightful National Chairman known to the law.

madridguy:
I'm with Ali Modu Sherriff.

adjoviomole:
2day is d day our amiable 1st lady mrs Aisha Buhari will travel to the USA for a meeting.....we are watching. Updates will be given when she arrives.

Abagworo:
Only Anambra is the problem of Ndigbo. Minus Anambra there will be unity.

jlinkd78:
For those that do not understand d analogy BTW d biblical Ahithophel and MEND let me present a summary. Ahitophel is a man of wisdom and whose counsel/advice to King David often provided great result. At a point, he betrayed David and now ganged up with Absalom, David arch enemy and started giving him counsel to undo David. At this point, David prayed one prayer point that God should turn d wisdom of Ahitophel into foolishness and God answered him and Ahitophel ended up commiting suicide. Ahitophel signifies everything betrayal, saboteur and Judas. Even d common man on d street knows MEND is d militant wing of d APC whose main interest is to give d freedom they might be planning for d Okahs some degree of legitimacy by roping Mazi Nnamdi Kalu into d ring. What makes MEND think that if Mazi Kalu wanted to renounce Biafra he wud still be in captivity now? Waiting for his own personal epic response in d coming days.

funlord:
Stop lying it was MEND that did that!

GenbIoodykiller:
cc
omenka ngeneukwenu modath

Jokerman:
She is with Angelina Mitchell. ..

KnowAll:
I think Asari Dokubo has already done that, d north don't have to focifully islamize Niger delta. Did u guys see d number of Muslim during his wife's burial d other day. I was like fuccccck where did these number of Muslim come from. E be like say Dokubo has use his position to turn many hungry Niger Deloan into d muslim camp.

If at all, if d Northerners has such plan they can do it by proxy by paying Dokubo to help them convert as many people as possible. Dokubo wey like money give him d right money b4 u say jacky-stone 90 % Bayelsans go Don become Muslims.

CliffordOrji:
Is that the reason why they blow up pipelines and pollute their own enviroment? So the agitation is no longer about resource control but about religion. There is a [size=14pt] substantial [/size] amount of Moslems who are from the Niger Delta like Is Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo

brize:
the time it took you to write all this would have been enough for her to go and come back....

horpe132:
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Enough of all this NOISE,,,,
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Mrs Buhari Cannot be Arrested in the U.S.A for any offence, True or Not...
She's a member of our foreign envoy as the Presidents wife..........
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Once you Use a DIPLOMATIC passport, you are accorded the respect of your Nation & You become a foreign Envoy,,YOU CANNOT BE ARRESTED OR PROSECUTED ON foreign SOIL,, Even if you commit a Crime, the worst that can happen is for the country where the crime is committed to investigate diligently and send their facts to your home country for prosecution................


.........Worst of all is You may be REMOVED by the FOREIGN country back to your home Nation & denied Visa in the future............ DIPLOMATIC Pressure will be mounted on your country to prosecute you.......
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Its not about Tribe or Ethnicity,,,,its More about knowledge and understanding INternational Politics...
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..Ask yourself why USA didn't arrest those 3-law-makers for soliciting sex which is a crime there ,,,!!!!!!
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Oya call me Afonja,,Ewedu, Slave etc....and continue to wallow in your ignorance !

legendsilver:
Isn't this development great, lolz.

come and see the bridge o, after una go say he did nothing for bayelsans

ObaKlaz:
Can't tell why that's so. It's a New York post exclusive, look it up yourself, it's also trending on news sites around the globe.

busomma:
Fani Kayode seem to know more than every body else. That was how he ran his mouth during Jonathan Era but didn't see it coming that PDP will be comprehensively defeated in the 2015 elections. Fani,Nigeria isn't going anywhere no matter ur fear mongering thrown around by using any ur cohorts. Please do Nigerians a favor, go and clear ur name with the EFCC instead of trying to remain politically relevant.

Redoil:
oche211 is omenka in disguise

iflywithbuhari:
Keep dreaming. MEND is not NDA, and so have nothing to bargain with. Charles and Kanu by God's grace,will rot in jail.

In a statement issued today, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed that a team negotiating on behalf of the Federal Government for a return of peace to the oil-rich delta had agreed to release several detained or imprisoned militants, including Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Henry Okah, a MEND chieftain serving a jail sentence in South Africa, Charles Okah, and Obi Nwabueze. The statement disclosed that Mr. Kanu and other detained IPOB activists would be released on condition that they renounce their agitation for secession.

Beremx:
Unbelievable!!

Buhari abeg forgive Nnamdi Kanu. I think he has come back to his sense.

biafranqueen:
7.5 years have passed and this clown has not turned out any major project.
He is lucky it was only PDP flag they raise and not machete.

sarrki:
Pikin wey say mama know Go sleep im ma no go touch sleep.

I have been saying this when Boko Boiz started they weren't after civilian But when the tides change na every body feel the pains

On Tuesday, the company's representatives merely presented two cartons of Malta Guinness malt drink, two cartons of Star beer, and a gin to the community. The drinks are worth N6, 500 (about $18).

The gas explosion which occurred on Sunday in Obotim Nsit village, Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, left shocked villagers with various degrees of injuries.
But by Tuesday, two days after the incident, the victims were yet to receive medical attention.
No help came from the local or state governments, or Seven Energy International Ltd, owner of the destroyed pipeline, a PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter who visited the community confirmed.
On Tuesday, the company’s representatives merely presented two cartons of Malta Guinness malt drink, two cartons of Star beer, and a gin to the community. The drinks are worth N6, 500 (about $18).
The village head, Okon Ukpong, confirmed that the community had not received anything before Tuesday.
Seven Energy’s representatives declined to speak to the PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter who met with them at the scene of the explosion.
The company’s officials – three young men – spoke with the Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State government, Etekamba Umoren, and the Special Assistant on Security Matters to Governor Udom Emmanuel, Iniobong Ekong, who also visited the scene.
The pipeline explosion, which the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers has claimed responsibility for, occurred around 11.30pm Sunday.
The impact of the blast – burnt palm trees, destroyed cassava farms, razed economic trees – could be seen within a 1,000 metres radius.
“I think those who doubt the effect of gas flaring, should come and see this. This is less than 24 hours, and yet the impact is so enormous,” the SSG, Mr. Umoren, said in a sad tone, as he walked back to his car. “No amount of fertilizer can help the soil here.”
Some residents of Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom, which is about 20 kilometre from the explosion scene, said they heard the sound of the explosion, and saw thick ball of fire illuminate the skyline.

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Akwa Ibom community hit by ‘Niger Delta Avengers explosion’ narrates ordeal
July 29, 2016Cletus Ukpong

The destroyed pipeline (Photo Credit: Cletus Ukpong)
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The gas explosion which occurred on Sunday in Obotim Nsit village, Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, left shocked villagers with various degrees of injuries.
But by Tuesday, two days after the incident, the victims were yet to receive medical attention.
No help came from the local or state governments, or Seven Energy International Ltd, owner of the destroyed pipeline, a PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter who visited the community confirmed.
On Tuesday, the company’s representatives merely presented two cartons of Malta Guinness malt drink, two cartons of Star beer, and a gin to the community. The drinks are worth N6, 500 (about $18).
The village head, Okon Ukpong, confirmed that the community had not received anything before Tuesday.
Seven Energy’s representatives declined to speak to the PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter who met with them at the scene of the explosion.
The company’s officials – three young men – spoke with the Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State government, Etekamba Umoren, and the Special Assistant on Security Matters to Governor Udom Emmanuel, Iniobong Ekong, who also visited the scene.
The pipeline explosion, which the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers has claimed responsibility for, occurred around 11.30pm Sunday.
The impact of the blast – burnt palm trees, destroyed cassava farms, razed economic trees – could be seen within a 1,000 metres radius.
“I think those who doubt the effect of gas flaring, should come and see this. This is less than 24 hours, and yet the impact is so enormous,” the SSG, Mr. Umoren, said in a sad tone, as he walked back to his car. “No amount of fertilizer can help the soil here.”
Some residents of Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom, which is about 20 kilometre from the explosion scene, said they heard the sound of the explosion, and saw thick ball of fire illuminate the skyline.
Justice Udousoro, a sports journalist who lives at Obot Idim which is about five minutes’ drive from Uyo city centre, said the explosion shook his house and others around the neighbouring villages. “I initially thought it was a plane crash,” Mr. Udousoro said.
People living in Obotim Nsit village said they thought the world had come to an end that night.
Terrified by the loud bang and ensuing fire, the villagers said they fled into the bush, falling upon trees and whatever objects stood on their path. Some, including children, fell into pits and wells.
“Some of us ran naked into the bush. It was total confusion,” said an aged woman, Emma Bassey. “I am not sure there is any family which has not suffered one injury or the other.”
Emmanuel Monday, a 35-year-old carpenter who lives with his wife, Enobong, and five children, in Obotim Nsit, said he almost lost his two-year old girl, Joy, who ran out into the bush with others, and fell into a freshly dug 9 -feet deep latrine in a neigbouring compound.
“The fire was running towards our home, we all thought that the world had come to an end,” said Mr. Monday, whose house is more than 700 metres away from the scene. “There was intense heat everywhere.”
Mr. Monday said he was able to grab only one of his five children. Together, they ran through the backdoor into the bush, while his wife grabbed another and ran behind them. The other children followed.

We heard the cries of a baby near our house that night, and we went into the bush to investigate where it was coming from, and there we saw the little girl inside the pit latrine,” said a middle-aged woman who narrated how Mr. Monday’s daughter was rescued.
Mr. Monday was alerted that his missing daughter had been found, and he went over to pick her. This was around 5am.

2 year-old Joy also fell into a pit latrine (Photo Credit: Ubong Abasi Okon)
The little girl had been crying all day since the incident, the parents said. They suspected she may have sustained internal injuries.
“I don’t have money to take her to hospital,” the father said. “I have bought paracetamol for her because that’s what I could afford.”
Idongesit Okorie, a 45-year-old unemployed father of five, suffered a similar fate. His three-year-old granddaughter, Idorenyin, fell into about 8ft-deep well, filled with water. Luckily, the child was rescued quickly.
She too had not received any medical attention as of Tuesday because the parents and the grandparents could not afford money for the hospital.

Mr. Okorie’s 10-year-old son, Iniewonghoabasi, dazed by the explosion, ran as fast as he could away from the village. He ran past two other villages, before finally stopping at Afaha Ofiong village where he was rescued and brought back to the village.
“I know the injuries and the pains my family and I have suffered because of what happened, I am only looking up to God for help,” Mr. Okorie said. “Nobody cares to know how we survived the incident and how we are coping with our injuries. Nobody has even told us anything about the explosion.”
Malt and gin
Seven Energy owns a gas processing plant in Uquo, Esit Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State.
The company supplies gas to the 560 MW Calabar National Integrated Power Project, Cross River State, the Ibom Power Company, Akwa Ibom, Notore Chemical Industries Limited and the United Cement Company of Nigeria, in Calabar.
The company says it has invested over $1 billion in the south east region of the Niger Delta in the last 5 years.
The essence of its meeting with leaders of Obotim Nsit was to plead with the community to allow them repair the pipeline.
Seven Energy officials arrived the community on Tuesday in a white Toyota Hilux truck with registration number APP 986 AG, and a white Ford truck, with registration number LND 19 XS.
As community leaders gathered, they presented them with the drinks: malt, beer and gin.
The officials of the company soon became fidgety when a PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter walked into the meeting. An official who was counting some naira notes, obviously meant for the community, suddenly paused, while another walked up and whispered to the village head.
The village head, Mr. Ukpong, halted proceedings of the meeting and asked the reporter to introduce himself. Convinced who the visitor was, the chief politely asked the journalist to leave the meeting.
“We are meeting today with the company, we will meet with you tomorrow,” he assured.
But he immediately added: “But let me say it here, that nobody from the local or state government has visited this village since that incident happened. We have not received any relief material from the company (Seven Energy) or government.”
Some locals at the meeting who protested the decision to expel the reporter, could not change anything. They had argued the community needed an independent observer to help check whatever Seven Energy was doing.
The village head, Mr. Ukpong, promised to get in touch, but he has yet to do so.
Mum is the word
When PREMIUM TIMES contacted the headquarters of Seven Energy, Lagos, on Wednesday, a staff in its media unit, who identified herself only as Chioma, said the company’s Senior manager, Administration and Corporate Affairs, Patricia Akinlotan, would get back to the reporter. The company did not revert.
The Akwa Ibom State government too has yet to make an official statement on the gas explosion.

The Commissioner for Information in the state, Aniekan Umanah, referred PREMIUM TIMES to his counterpart in the Ministry of Environment, Iniobong Essien.
But Mr. Essien did not respond to phone calls and text messages.
The youth leader of Obotim Nsit, Emmanuel Wilson, told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday that things went from bad to worse after the meeting between Seven Energy and the community.
Mr. Wilson said in addition to the drinks, the company gave the youth N15, 000, the village council N15, 000, and the women N10, 000.
Mr. Wilson said Seven Energy refused to talk about payment of compensation to the community, and because of that the village head went and placed a traditional injunction, forbidding the company from entering the site.
“They (Seven Energy) went and brought soldiers to the community to protect the site, there is so much trouble now in the community. We need help,” Mr. Wilson said.

Tokety7:
Op and his stupidity is just world class.

MalcoImX:
Aren't there cows roaming everywhere during GEJ? You're still talking about this when somebody has already enlightened you that cows sleep on airport tarmacs during your darling GEJ, ....and we haven't had these personalizations. Huh, or is it the pictures you want, ... GEJ man?

donbrowser:
Some stupid fools awon alaye baje, ma s' anfani, oponu amuku meko will not see that one.
That Fayemi left debt in Office and he is still there under the Broom, same with Aregbe. Any governor that comes in to Osun state will have to pay part of Aregbe's debt which cannot be cleared in 16 yrs.
If you quote thunder will fire all your generations.
Awon Oloriburuku gbogbo. After collecting money from stupid politicians they come here to type rubbish.
Ofo lomi efo n se.