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@ Ono

The Multiplied Armed Struggle Niger delta Agitation started when the Army Generals got neck and hand involved with the oil business. It started with the REFINERY and Then went to the oil propecting.

The coming of OBJ did bring out the stepping of toes of alot of General in the military. Some of the oil companies where being protected by the ARMY(i am shouting because I am very angry when I think of this) We saw the ARMY USED to KILL TAX PAYERS in the Name of protecting the oil from the custodian of the land.

The Army GENERALS got kicked out of the business of Crude oil and had to side with Ordinary civillians and trained them giving them the following
1) Weapons training
2) Intelligence
3) Cooperate image
4) Weapons supply

Can you imagine that the DMI will not know when a strike is about to happen on a military base??
Do you know how many days the bokom harram were flushed out and subdued?

The 10% will not work. The true federalism is the answer. We must answer the real fears that true federal will pose in a state called Nigeria. The Yoruba states truely want a federal system just as the eastern and Mid east and West states.

The Betrayal of some state clamouring for resources control instead of True Federalism divided the front.  There is no reason for resources control when you have true federalism. The Issue should have been solving the fear of disintegration in a Nigeria state.




@kobojunkie

@jrtorrent

I have given the reason for the $300,000

1) If traders mainly from the east of Nigeria sold the good s at the same price the Ghana union of traders association would not have a problem
2) The GUTA want the foreigners to be in the wholesale trade and leave the retails trade for Ghanaians
3) Just as you have Mr Price , shoprite and so on you only want foreigners to partake in that large scale type of business

i wish nigerians can see what they want for their country and there is nothing wrong with that.

We should also be doing this where no foreigner can own a taxi company in nigeria because that i think is the equivalent market.

If you want to be more pragmatic

1) To work in a construction company you must have 50 million dollar capitalisation as a foreigner( alot of Ghanaians in Nigeria will be out of work)
2) To sell in Nigeria Citize3n must have a capitalisation of $30,000 for Nigerians and $500,000 for non nigerians
3)  To run a transport service in any city you must have 200 buses and capital base of 5 million dollar

power without control is waste.

There is nothing wrong with what ghana is doing. but the reason behind it is the problem.

I have said it even if we have God ruling us directly the citizens are the ones that determine if we go forward. Can you imagine that the House cannot not save nigeria?

The House must sit up we are watching them and they cannot hide the emblem of "it is our leaders"

@jrtorrents

The crude oil deal problem is that Tema refinery is owing to Ghana commercial bank over 600 million dollar = 900 million Gh cedis and it cant  raise a letter of credit. Nigeria has blessed Ghana on the oil issue and Ghana with some criminal Nigerians took Nigerian Government for a ride.

Your government got sixty days credit from us but you will sell and your oil marketing companies will not pay. before The NPP came you have 9 oil marketing companies now you have about 30 more and they are supplied on credit.

The premium that your banks pay on the monies owed kept increasing. instead of dealing with nigeria what did your Government do they were buying High sulphur content crude oil from the high sea that has almost destryed your Refinery here.

@texazzpete

I cannot but agree with you more. Just look at the home videos we have in nigeria. Is that creativity.
It murders the Mind of Nigerians.

What we see is what we believe in do you blame other countries for portraying us evil? when Our own People Portray we as evil? Nigerians can condemn their leaders but imagine what the people are doing to them selves.

The directors are not writing about good dreams of what a police man should be or what should be the right mind of a government official. Already our youths are bombarded with negative images of Nigeria in the international scene our fake producers and film actors finish them off by acting evil films that make commiting an evil act very simple and acceptable.

imagine you see an home video where the police is Afraid of the armed robber or government official why wont the kid grow up to think that a police man is inferior and doomed to collect bribe?

THE POLICE IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HIGHEST CIVIL AUTHORITY IN ANY LAND.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

@jrtorrents

That is a big lie. If you give Ghana today 9th october Crude oil they cant refine oil because their Refinery is comatose. The former government defrauded it is own people. They refined high sulphur crude oil and sold it as though it was brent crude oil.

@Akwasi and Shesi

Ghanaians have a degree of Xenophobia and they must deal with it. on your TV on your radio they carry bad news and it looks like the opposite of Good is Nigeria and Not.

@All Nigerians

Ghanaians have a right to do whatever they like, we can now see that we cannot run away but imagine and Dream for how we can make Nigeria better. I say let us dream so that our kids can build on those dreams.

Do you know that most dreams are selfless.

The real thing about the $300,000 issue is the petty traders from mainly the east of nigeria selling on tables and even hawking in Ghana. Should ghana fold its arms for people from Nigeria take over the petty trade business?

There are shops in Makola a business district in Accra Nigerians use to supply goods to Ghanaians but now Nigerians are owning the shops. The business Ghanaian is not happy so during the election they made it a campaign issue.

The fact is that increasing the threshold to $300,000 would not help Ghana, why? because Ghanaian business Pysche is wrong. I will explain.

A ghanaian business man or woman would buy something for 50 pesewa and sell for 1ghana cedis 50 pesewa.  he or she would not care if the goods get spoil or not and do you know most of the times the Goods are collected on credit from the Wholesaler who are nigerians and foreigners.

back in the late 90s when i started to come to ghana if you sold(supplied) Greeting card to a Ghanaian shop at 20pesewas The shops would sell it at 50pesewas and atimes 1cedi  TO COLLECT YOUR MONEY WOULD BE AN ETERNAL PROBLEM. YOU WILL BE SHOKCED THAT YOUR GOODS ARE NOT THERE AND THEY HAVE OTHER GOODS, THEY PROBABLY USED YOUR MONEY TO PAY FOR OTHER GOODS.

THE SAME THING HAPPENED IN THE OIL BUSINESS YOU COLLECT CREDIT BRENT CRUDE OIL FROM NIGERIA REFINE SELL AND GO TO BUY OTHER CRUDE OIL ON THE HIGH SEAS IN CASH.
I have lived in ghana for 14 years and i have experience in business tribal and political Psyche here, I always tell people to be careful and never give Credit sale to a Ghanaian because they have a problem with selling and paying back. This is not however a general staement as it would be tantamount to reverse Xephobism.

Nigeria needs to leave Ghana alone. If we develope ourself and recapitalise our markets it would be Good. Imagine

Mushin Market is turned to a massive shopping mall where you have 20 feet under ground shops and 30 floor high rise malls.  We must make the money bags work in nigeria.

We need to rebuild our markets. this petty trading most be done with we must build massive markets that people will come and buy.  We are condemned to dream that is all we have to dream.

source http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=156511
The Titanic Battle for Nigeria’s Oil,
10.08.2009

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Yesterday, THISDAY broke the story on how the delay by the National Assembly in passing the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law is playing into the hands of the oil majors. Ijeoma Nwogwugwu writes on the intrigues and the politics of the waiting game.

The Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation’s(CNOOC) application for the acquisition of a 49-per-cent interest in 23 oil blocks, some of which are currently held by major operating companies, and the response of the Federal Government to same, has sent shock waves among the multinational oil companies which currently hold the leases.
The offer was actually made under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, but nothing was done about it until a year ago when talks on the leases intensified.
It also brings to the fore the law suit instituted by Shell recently challenging the Federal Government’s decision to renew its expired acreages under new terms without taking into consideration the subsisting Petroleum Act of 1969 that provides for a renewal of the leases for another 40 years under the same terms.
The CNOOC is said to have made an offer of $30 billion for the 49 per cent stake in the oil blocks, translating to 6 billion barrels in oil reserves, which will be hived off from most likely the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) stake in the joint ventures.
In its quest to acquire six  billion barrels of oil, the CNOOC acting under the auspices of Sunrise Consortium applied for 49 per cent equity participation in the following blocks: OMLs 67, 68, 70, 11, 13, OMLs 71, 72, 74, 77, 79, 83, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 95, 118, 127, 133, 139 and 140.

Concerns raised by NNPC
According to a memo by NNPC, the request is being given consideration as instructions have gone out from the Ministry of Petroleum Resources for the data on the blocks to be released to Sunrise by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). In addition, a negotiating committee has been set up in NNPC to handle discussions with the company.
The committee is to consider the request and determine an optimum price for the reserves in the blocks against the backdrop of the offer made by CNOOC.
Eighteen of the 23 blocks requested are currently operated under the JV arrangement while the remaining five are operated under the Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs).
Of the JV blocks, 16 were awarded in 1968 (41 years ago) and expired late last year while two are due for renewal in 2019. Also, virtually all the expired blocks are located in the continental shelf except the two unexpired ones that are located onshore.
The PSCs were only recently converted to OMLs and are not due for renewal until 2020 at the earliest. Expectedly, all the PSC blocks are located in the deepwater and belong in the first set of deep offshore blocks awarded in the 1993 licensing round.
Of the 23 JV blocks, seven are operated by Chevron while three are operated by Mobil. The rest are held by the NNPC/Shell/Elf/Agip JV operated by Shell.
Though many of the blocks have expired since the end of 2008, they were renewed for one year while discussions on the terms of longer renewal leases are still ongoing.
The CNOOC initiative packaged by Sunrise, indicated the NNPC memo, is a welcome development as it might give some boost to exploration and production activities that have been flagging on account of the restive situation in the Niger Delta.
However, assigning highly productive blocks to a third party requires some strategic thinking. Granted that the blocks in question are due for renewal but where discussions are still ongoing, assignment to a third party could erode confidence and jeopardize the future of the JV arrangements.
According to the memo, other points to consider in respect of the overall request are as follows:
a) Need to settle the issue of the renewal of the expired blocks before venturing to assign interest to CNOOC;
b) Divestment of government interest in the blocks would translate to depleting the assets of the entities being proposed for Incorporated JV (IJV) arrangement as contained in the draft Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB);
c) With the execution of the back-in rights (Partial PSC) agreement with the International Oil Companies (IOCs) there may be no interest to assign to the third party unless the initial agreement is terminated;
d) Assigning interest in the highly productive JV blocks to CNOOC should merit an open sale that could attract other industry players.
e) If government intends to strengthen NNPC as proposed in the PIB, assigning such interest to the corporation should be the first consideration;
f) So far, Chinese companies have been awarded blocks in previous licensing rounds as follows: i. OPL 275 (onshore) - won by Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) in the 2005 round; ii. OPLs 226 and 291 [formerly 216] (Continental shelf and Deepwater respectively) won by CPC in the 2006 round; iii. OPLs 721 and 732 (Chad Basin) won by Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in the 2006 round; iv. OPL 471 (Continental shelf) won by CNPC in the 2006 round; v. OPL 298 (formerly OML 65 onshore) won by CNPC in the 2006 round, but the block has been re-awarded to NPDC. In addition, SINOPEC, another Chinese National Oil Company, is in partnership with NPDC in the operation of OMLs 64 and 66. Apart from one well drilled in OML 64, not much has been done with the above awards. Therefore, one would wonder why the nation would be “assigning” proven reserves to the same entity without any recourse to shoring up the nation’s reserves base.
g) With Shell in court over the take-over of some of its blocks and discussions currently ongoing with the other asset operators, this latest development would compound issues and set government on a collision course with the operators.

Position of the IOCs
The IOCs have had issues with the new fiscal terms being proposed under the PIB and incorporation of the JVs. The request by the CNOOC will certainly add to their woes.
An official with one of the major oil companies operating in the country admitted that the problem is two-fold. He said that if the Federal Government fails to renew the leases, it means that November and December lifting of crude oil might already be jeopardized since the leases would have expired, and oil is sold several months ahead of time.
He said: “Our leases cannot be an incentive to delay the PIB. Our concerns have to do with securing our investment under reasonable terms that are a win-win for all parties.”
He stated that the government should be weary about giving a 49-per-cent stake to the CNOOC because the IOCs are entitled to a renewal of the lease for another 40 years, irrespective of the PIB.
What would happen with the passage of the PIB, he explained, is that the JVs would simply become incorporated and the current ownership structure would continue to subsist.
Explaining further, the official said the contract terms and the Act are very clear and stipulates that insofar as the IOCs have paid their royalties, petroleum profits taxes and other charges that may be imposed by the government under the contracts, the companies are entitled to a renewal for another 40 years.
“We have a letter from the Federal Government signed by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, acknowledging that we have met the contractual terms as defined under the contracts. This means we are entitled to another 40 years lease.
“But recently, the government told us that we should match or better the terms of the CNOOC, failing which our stake will be sold to the Chinese,” he disclosed.
Shell, he said, had gone to court to challenge the propriety of the government’s attempt to sell part of its stake in the JVs and PSCs.
If there is no resolution in sight, the other oil majors might have to take the some course of action to protect their rights, he stated.
But even he the official volunteered the information, little did he know that one of oil majors, Exxon-Mobil, had broken ranks by making an offer to the federal government of less than $100 million for all its oil acreages that are up for renewal.
Confirming the development, an official with NNPC who did not want to be identified, said Exxon-Mobil has made an offer that is significantly less than $100 million for its three blocks that have reserves in excess of 2 billion, “but had qualified it by attaching all sorts of conditions to the amount.”
The offer made by Exxon-Mobil, he explained, is rather unattractive and will certainly not excite officials in the petroleum ministry.

FG’s position
Providing clarification on the imbroglio arising from the request by the CNOOC, the Chief Economic Adviser to the president, Mr. Tanimu Yakubu, said he understands the concerns of the IOCs and they have informed the government that they have the right of first refusal on the said 23 blocks wanted by the Chinese.
He, however, explained that even as the IOCs are pushing to renew their leases, they have offered peanuts for the blocks in question.
“They are not even contemplating offering anything close to the figures being contemplated by the CNOOC,” he stated.
Added to this, he said the acreages cover oil field in which the oil majors had been flaring gas for decades, despite all the missed deadlines, entreaties and even penalties imposed by the government to get them to shut in the gas flares.
“The IOCs have been flaring associated gas produced with crude oil for decades, wasting a valuable resource and polluting the environment.
“We cannot continue under this kind of regime, so they have to offer us better terms than CNOOC,” he said.
But a source in the presidency who did not want to be named, said the government still had a long way to reaching an agreement with CNOOC.
In a text message sent yesterday, he wrote: “The Chinese offer is not as attractive as it appears. Its net present value as computed by NNPC is less than $30 billion.
“This is not commensurate with the asset class they are seeking from us. Not only are oil reserves a more valuable asset than US dollar reserves, the oil reserves will also meet the future energy security of the Chinese.
“The discussion with the Chinese has reportedly left out acreages that are committed, though the offer extended to those fields not yet available.
“It is hoped that the Chinese will improve their offer. Alternatively, the IOCs should better it.”
When contacted, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Odein Ajumogobia, said the CNOOC came with a generic proposal for 6 billion reserves for a certain consideration. According to him, their proposal coincided with the time the leases on 16 acreages were expiring and since the CNOOC had done its homework it added those leases to the list of 23 it wanted.
He said when the ministry granted the one-year extension to the IOCs on their expired leases last year, it had hoped that the PIB would have been passed before the one-year deadline, as this would have meant that the leases will be negotiated under different terms. “Unfortunately, this did not happen,” he said.
“So what we have told the IOCs is that if we must renew the leases for another 40 years, they must take into cognizance that the oil blocks have value (P1 – proven preserves and P2 – probable reserves), which means that they would have to make a payment for the blocks if they want them back.”
Ajumogobia, however, was emphatic that the request by the ministry to the IOCs is not tantamount to asking them to match or better the offer made by CNOOC. “This is not a bidding war. The CNOOC’s offer was just coincidental. After all, NNPC, as the majority partner in the JVs, reserves the right to sell down part of its stake to a third party without touching what the IOCs hold in the blocks.”
The minister disclosed that rather than make an offer that the government would find hard to resist, Shell has gone to court to challenge the government’s decision to renew the leases under different terms. Shell, along with other IOCs, is citing a provision in the Petroleum Act which stipulates that the acreages can be renewed for another 40 years under the same terms, insofar as they have met the conditions of the Act.
But the minister said that they have informed the IOCs that the same Act also allows the minister to impose new conditions for renewal, which “includes payment for the blocks, akin to a signature bonus.”

What next for National Assembly?
With all the intrigues playing out, questions are being asked about the continued delay on the part of the National Assembly in the passage of the PIB. The delay is playing to the advantage of the oil majors as the PSCs, renewed for one year in 2008, will soon expire again and the Federal Government will be unable to act.

Dede1

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You are bunch of dreamers. Nigeria lost its innocence to embark on such revolutionary escapade in 1966 when the actions of few brave young men were turned into tribal machinations. Unfortunately, an attempt to ignite change within Nigerian society through the means of social chaos must be viewed through the ethnic prism.

@dede1

I think if you diagnosed the problem of those officers is that they were absolutely wrong. They were puns in the hands of the Elites. They had that time just come back from a fraudulent peace keeping mission in the congo where they saw it possible for military take over.

The army has been a pun in the hands of the elites to steal money.

I know the military very well they are trained to die. Any dollar that was and is stolen by any soldier has the coaching of an Elite official. Abacha went to war school he was never trained on how to transfer or handle money same as many combat soldiers in the Nigerian army.

The army has been infiltrated by the Elites and their agents untill alot of cleansing from General Obasanjo HAS REDUCED THEM.

Dede1 You also said that we are bunch of dreamers. I will dream and encourage us to dream. every good thing comes out from dreams. We are condemned to dream or else what will youths have? If we dont dream our kids and the next generation will have nightmares.

The Parasitic Elites are an amorphous group comprising of motley people. We need to counter this parasitic elite with Selfless elite, and an army of young pure and not yet corrupted militant few that would be ready to die for Nigeria.

The Civil service is the greatest problem. The sea of which our public service are picked is the Nigerian people. We need to have an effective river that will counter the evil civil service. We need a new Nigerian civil convention core.

We can overcome tribalism yes we can.

First of all Ghana has a population of 20 million. They are well organized. I think what they learnt how to do most is Orderliness. they may not know how to make money like Nigerians but they are organized.

Your kids are going to Ghana to study in their universities. Most of their private universities are filled with Nigerians. Some of your kids are here in Ghana that came to school are pregnant with babies.

We are condemned to make Nigeria better or the worse will happen to us. We are becoming irrelevant as goliath. We must rise up not a against Ghana but against immorality and organise ourselves.

God Bless Nigeria

This is a very good topic it is the bain of our problems.

Fhemmy and yeswecan had part of the perspective. but you see the real game is that a millitant few is what is causing this and that is all you need to counter it.

Our chief had a militant few and they were the ones that facilitated in the sale of their fellow black people. We must understand that our kings and chief and the biggest frauds we had and still have. Majority of them bewitched and cow their citizens into slavery and they sold the strong ones and later finished us off by colonizing us for hundreds of years.

One of the greatest problems of nigeria is not Leadership perse but the real problems is Love.

Our Ethnic leaders dont have love for their own people and visitors. They are not fair minded and are agents of destruction of Nigeria. They have people that they recruit and make them titled Chiefs some of this people are in Administration of resources. These Agents of the kings steal the peoples money and spend it on lavish party for the chieves of their villages and the chieftancy title is given to theis fooolish pun.

When the Pun is caught you will see this same chief coming to the defence of this Pun

Now if you look back from the 3rd paragraph you will notice that the Kings(chieves) innitially were selling their own people for money mirrors schnapps. Now see what is happening the chief is still selling but this time he is selling Acceptances and status. Anyone that brings money stolen or not can by status.

If you look at our schools this same thing is happening in the universities where our students are forming soceities of untouchables. Our lecturers are lifeless they are not challenging figures rather they cripple the students, so that our students have to face 2 evils their fellow students and the teachers that are fustrated.

Some of our lecturers cant lecture in Afghanistan because the book they read were written by illiterates that never went to a formal school.

What we must do is to start from a small beginning but it must be loud and militant.

we have to recruit our citizens into a core we have 36 states in Nigeria.

call in every state 500,000 men and women I belive we have about 13 million men and women.

This will be people that would sign up to a New Nigerian Core

1) They will build new cities
2) roads
3) House
4) Dam for irrigation
5) Farms
6) Securtiy
7) Sanitation
Health care

What they inturn would get is
housing (after year of working they would be given a house)
stippen (money)
feeding (Voucher to eat in a NEW NIGERIAN FOOD CENTER)
Education(they would be taught on field ad giving degrees and certificate)
Food ( they would be given food stuff from the farm to give to their parents)


You will be able to have Psycologist to psyche them up and motivational speakersand preachers that will teach morals in all the camps. I suggest you pick from age of 14 so by the time they are 19 they only know love and work for their fatherland

this is true rebranding.

God bless Nigeria

As much as I agree that Dora Akunyili has holes in a campaign of rebranding Nigerian, I solemnly also believe that your write up Mr. Honorable has a lot of chasms.

The first is that the leaders of motley kingdoms you talked about are same ones ruling us now however indirectly. This heterogeneous people are well organized and can mutate into any state they like. They have their elite partner in other jurisdiction. If you send a Moses to them it will seem as if you are punishing then and they will begin to demand their rights.

They have agents as they themselves are agents of imperialism. The motley rulers fascist they are the same people that sold their people to slavery. They the rulers fed on the backs of the people. This moral gorge has not been corrected and restitution to the masses has not been made to the sons and daughters of the sold slaves.

The chief are agents of hardship to the masses. The tribe card played when something is about to be done right has the hand of all the Kings (ring leader) and Chiefs (thieves). The style of thievery of the traditional elite from all across the state called Nigeria is phenomenal. Mr. Honorable the political elite is an offshoot of what has happened in the years of slavery. If we did not have oil these Parasitic Elite will still sell human beings.

Until they the traditional elite pay back the monies or the equivalents of the people sold to slavery, I say it is an anathema to be called a king in any part of Africa. Restitution must be internal. Our kings were the ones that made it easy for us to be impoverished they same kings are the ones that this thieving political parasitic Elites run to when they are in the red.

Not until we have rudimentary law and enforcement systems that is moral and this can only be brought about a creation of a new type of Elite. The Elite of young under aged Nigerians that have not been corrupted by want. We must POLITICALLY ENGINEER THE SOCIAL HIERACHY of Nigeria.

It is looking like the old Nigerian is disillusioned to the point of no return. I must say at this point that to create a counter Elite we must be ready to die as some of those that did so before died. They say the children are the future so when does the future start? My friend it STARTS NOW.

What we must do is to link Education Directly to Work. The thinking of most Africans is that education Equals money. But we must reengineer our minds to say Education equals Work (service) equals wealth.


We must use our youth in

1) Policing
2) Building of houses and of new cities
3) Small dams for power
4) Irrigation dams
5) Farming
6) Cleaning
7) Teaching
Health care and education
9) Build of roads
I believe in “on the Job” training.
If the youth build they would have a sense of nationalism. To think of rebranding from the top is a waste of time. Every leader emerges from the sea of the people.

@post

I believe there is no one that has the monoply of the usage of "heavy" Vocabulary however we cant all be speaking like robots.

@Gbawe

It may mean fast or take a book. I am a yoruba lived in nigeria during the putrifying years Nigeria existed as a nation I tell you i can say without let that Akunyili restored the drug industry of Nigeria.

Nigerian medicine was just an Epitome of what was fake. In some other countries if you see anything Nigerian it was almost like it was fake or expired It took one woman an Igbo woman to help us get back.

The Pharmacuetical industries was almost dead when she came. God bless her. If her Child marries a gorrilla and that gorrila is a human being I will support her. We shout of racism but we are the same ones that practices it the most. we are classist it is another form of rascism.

I would rather be with an Igbo that would save me from a yoruba armed robber.

YES AND NO

Dont call it Bakassi Boys

Call it the Anambra state Voluntary Police Service. ASVPS

You can provide on the service police training no JUJU but Human intelligence.

THE RETIRED GENERALS AND THE DMI ARE THE REAL MILITANTS

Not the people of NDelta

@OYB

the word is proxy

all over the world, ceos in businesses do business with themselves

if you go deeper, you will proably find that the cleaners, it support, security etc for oceanic are all companies owned by the ibrus. you may even find that some if not all of the contractors building that head office building are owned by the ibrus. na today

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Wether na today Or yesterday it must have to stop somewhere.

ALL NIGERIANS ARE NOT ROBOTS PLEASE SPEAK FOR YOUR SELF AND STOP CORRUPTING THE MINDS OF THE YOUNG ONES THAT READ US ON THIS FORUM.

Keep your Na today to your Self Abeg.

Nigeria will never see a day of progress.

I reject it in Jesus name. Nigeria will see a day of progress Dead or alive

There is nothing like tribalism with the elite they close rank when they are in trouble

Look at Akingboola's lawyer

Look at Ibru's Lawyer

The struggling class must love each other.

@Ikengawo

You are going very far just look at
RWANDA THE HUTU AND TUTSI SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE.

The Elite must have their way if they dont there cause Class will crumble so they play dirty and they have collaborators on all sides.

They dont care or give a hut about language. It is just a class struggle they must win. If the Masses are wise they will not answer them.

Read the article below.


The Tutsi, more correctly the Batutsi, are one of three native peoples of the nations of Rwanda and Burundi in central Africa. Large numbers of them were slaughtered in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.
The exact origin of the Tutsis is not certain. Tutsis were traditionally considered a Hamitic people, however such notions are not generally accepted by the academic community today. Colonial scholars believed that the Tutsi came from East Africa, possibly Sudan or Uganda. Today there is considerable debate about the racial validity of the term Tutsi as distinct from Hutu. Some researchers believe there is next to no genetic difference between the two groups, and that what difference does exist can be explained by social patterns within the Great Lakes region. Most differences between the groups are economic and cultural. Nonetheless, most Rwandans today identify themselves as either Tutsi or Hutu.

The term Tutsi is actually an indeterminate term. In the Kinyarwanda language, a single Tutsi is termed batutsi, and more than one (the plural) is termed watutsi. This is the source of the dance name Watusi.

The Watutsi are actually the most recent arrivals in Rwanda and Burundi. The original inhabitants were the Twa (or Watwa), a pygmy people. The Hutu (Wahutu), a Bantu-derived people, subsequently moved in and dominated the Twa. Later yet, the Tutsi immigrated from the north during the 1400's and dominated both the Hutu and the Twa, establishing kingdoms that they ruled.

An interesting aspect of these three racial groups is comparative height. The Twa are traditionally portrayed as short, the Hutu medium, and the Tutsi tall. Height differences may well be accounted for by differences in nutrition. Physical differences are almost as stratified within the Tutsi group as between the Tutsis and the Hutus. Although some Tutsi are much taller and have sharper noses than most Hutus, most Tutsi are indistinguishable from the average Hutu.

There is no difference between the culture and language of the Tutsi and Hutu. Traditionally the rate of intermarriage has been very high. Relations between the groups were generally peaceful until the 20th century.

These significant similarites lead many to conclude that Tutsi is an expression of class or caste rather than ethnicity. Experts still dispute over whether these similarities between Hutus and Tutsis came from a common ancestry or a high rate of intermarriage.

By the 1800's the Hutus and Tutsis had also evolved into socioeconomic castes. BelgianFor alternate meanings, see Belgium (disambiguation). Belgian redirects here. For the horse breed commonly used as a draft horse, see Belgian. The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Belgi French: Belgique German: Belgien is a country in Western Europe, bordered colonialistsColonialism is a system in which a state claims sovereignty over territory and people outside its own boundaries, often to facilitate economic domination over their resources, labor, and often markets. The term also refers to a set of beliefs used to legi created the notions of two different races rather than castes. Hutu, Tutsi and Twa all speak the same language.

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http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Tutsi.htm


I have said and I will say it a Again Tribalism is a form of Classism that the Elite use for their Benefit.

If all the officials are IGBO and can do the work i dont care. If they are cow Chasing and no shoe wearing mallamic fulanis i dont care. They could all be amala eating "plenty stew" Yoruba Yoruba Speaking facial mark redesigned yoruba man i dont care.

Can they do the Job?

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The traditional ruler are the biggest retailers of the people across all tribes. The Emir of Sokoto will sell Lamido before you say Jack Robinson and Lamido will be on his way on a modern slave ship.

The battle between the Parasitic Elite and the Simple Elite sometimes has Casualities. Just as when 2 opposing army shoot at each other. The elite must be prepared to die for the Green White Green.

you should not fear what the CABAL would do the only thing is that the people will use the same method and you are seeing now in the MEDIA what they doing.

The media battle is to tell you that they have been victimised because of tribe or religion the elite know they will have supporters.

At Last, Otedola, Dangote Settle Differences

The swords have been sheathed in the long-drawn battle between two friends and business giants, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Mr. Femi Otedola, who had been at each other’s neck for nearly a year. In a truce brokered by the Editor-in-Chief and Chairman of THISDAY, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, and other friends of the business moguls last Sunday, the two men decided to bury the hatchet and forge a new bond. They had been invited separately for breakfast at Roberts Café, Victoria Island, Lagos , completely unaware of what was in the offing until they “bumped” into each other at the café. Obaigbena had been speaking to the two men individually before their misunderstanding over the purchase of Texaco became a media war, but the mediation had only succeeded in curtailing the public nature of the fight. At the reconciliation meeting on Sunday, they finally saw eye-to-eye for the first time in months as they spoke to each other at length, shook hands, asked frank questions and gave what were considered to be honest answers as to the source of their differences. To the delight of their friends, they made a solemn pledge to let “bygone be bygone”. They vowed to restore their confidence as friends, as Otedola acknowledged Dangote as his “elder brother” and “mentor”, promising to give Dangote his “due respect”.

Dangote, on his part, pledged to look after his “younger brother” and “protégé”. When Obaigbena asked the two billionaires to apologise to each other, Otedola seized the initiative. He cut in and said that in Yoruba tradition, Dangote was his senior and it was therefore unnecessary for the Kano-born sugar and cement giant to apologise, as only the junior apologises to the senior. They both agreed to end the long-running media war and withdraw all court cases related to the disagreement. The meeting ended with the declaration of “no victor, no vanquished” by the two parties. After the meeting, which was witnessed by Mr. Nduka Irabor, for chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Communications, and Mr. Albert Okumagba, the CEO of BGL Ltd, among others, the two billionaires drove together to Dangote’s house. Otedola also invited Dangote over to his office this Friday.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=151958

Those that have eyes let them see the ELITE would always agree. If the masses could love each other how wonderful it would be we would have better Elite and accountable Elite.

A BAD LEADER WAS A BAD FOLLOWER

The bible is sure once married Legaly and rightly you can never marry again. wether a man visits a church with thirty thousand wives and is given front sit is not the issue.

And if a sinner is given front sit what is the big deal?

Zacheus was on a tree what did Jesus do.

This our populist preachers God save us from.

Pastor Bakare and his like should better just join a peer pressure group other than a religious one because he is in error on this one.

Daughters and sons of the poor Go and get killed or injured in battle for Nigeria few hear from them but just touch the Elite. It is either they are muslims Yoruba or Igbo or Hausa.

Ribadu was Chased out of Nigeria for what.

When the bullets hit our Soldiers they never say the bullet is hitting because I am a Hausa Igbo or Yoruba. The Elite and the games they play on the masses.

Good men also bad days too.

people like Ribadu Osayameh and Sanusi should never give up poliil or tribal perceived witch hunt. we are more than the language we speak.

The FG does not need to handle the power Issue. Reason is that there is a Army of companies and accomplices that are there ready to strike when money is released by the FG.

The FG would hands off states so that state would provide there own power.

You see the state Governor are having a field day what they are doing now is JUST waiting for money from the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT atleast most of them. so what you need is to immediately reverse the whole game.

You (state Government) Do the work and I(Federal) collect my tax.

Know this the Elite are the ones that put your Governors there and because there is money that comes from the federal government the elite are first settle before you or I see anything.

So if you reverse the trend this is what will happen the elite would still support but they will have to work to get money from the state and no more from the centre federal government.

Leadership is like a Child.

The difference between the Elite and leaders is now becoming clear. You will soon see a dozen articles in news papers. Just keep watching. The Parasitic elite in nigeria are the real strangle holders.

You will see they start telling you how they have been victimised just simply because they attend church once a week on sunday or because they say Yoruba Yoruba and eat amala or they eat Eba igbo and say Nna everytime.

They will involve the same people(our traditional rulers not leaders) that sold majority of us as slaves. They will tell you there is a script written by some cow chasing Hausa man.

Watch very well if one northerner was involved in this action they will say oh the script was written by Yara dua.

The Elite are now becoming clear the dangerous few that has sworn that nigeria will not prosper. They say if it is not them Nigeria must burn they are ones that used brilliant and fearless soldier as Kaduna Nzeogu and ifeajuna to kill the first leader of Nigeria.

The blood of so many are on there heads. The Parasitic elite will never die for Nigeria. The poor send their sons to the army be it Yoruba Igbo or Hausa and other tribes but the Parasitic elite have all and can even go on strike.

A good leader will identify this Parasitic Elite bring them to order and damn the consequences. YOU CAN NEVER GET RID OF THE ELITE IF YOU DO THE SITUATION WOULD BE WORSE.

When this elite want a pay rise they get it, they are murderous when the dont get what they want. They are so invincible.

1+1 = 2

PLEASE GIVE ME THE SOURCE TO THIS

then ironsi is from sierra leone.

ARE WE SEEING WHY WE GET THE TYPE OF LEADERS WE HAVE NOW? JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE POST SAYING HE HAS A HIDDEN AGENDA!!!!!
HMMMM THIS IS JUST VERY INSULTING.

IF IT IS NOT RIBADU BEING THE DOG OF OBASANJO
ITS LAMIDO HAVING AN AGENDA OF NORTHERNIZING THE BANKING INDUSTRY

WE ALWAYS FIND A REASON TO MURDER OUR LEADERS


WHY WERE OUR FIRST LEADERS OF THIS COUNTRY KILLED?

MAY GOD WASH THE CRYING BLOOD OF OUR FORE LEADERS THAT DID NOTHING SO THAT WE CAN BE FREE

EVEN IF IT IS A MALU CHASING FULANI THAT RUNS THE BANKING SECTOR AND OUR MONEY IS SECURE I DONT CARE.

SO WHAT IF IT IS THE NORTH THAT OWNS ALL THE BANKS ARE THEY NOT NIGERIANS ??

I have always liked to solve problems it gives me joy that there is always a solution to a problem. The first thing to tackle by the

Federal Government

Give the states government the true right of statehood in a federal system.
Now this should be done in stages or you could have what I call prerequisitial Federal state. i would explain what i mean later.

Now let me tell you why you need to do this. some states in Nigeria have the population of countries in Europe that have high GDP and massive reserves. So we need to make state work so that the Federation stands.

what now Actually is happening is that the Federation is working for the state to stand so we see massive corruption.

what we need now is for the state to work for the Federation.

The FEDERATING states must have a reason to exist in the Nigerian Federation. Instead of the state waiting for the national cake it is making its flour or butter to contribute to its national Cake.

WE MUST GET RID OF SHARING THE NATIONAL CAKE MENTALITY IT DOES NOT BENEFIT US.



We must however have in perspective the reason why some leaders would feel that touching this is not good. No leader would want Nigeria to split under its regime. The fear of having a private army in the state is another one. you can imagine some state would have massive incomes and oil states would have to deal with companies.

So the fears are

1) States governor could have a private army
2) Some states could be Cheated by multinationals Mineral resources
3) The Federal civil service would be very difficult to maintain.


If you look from the above fear already

some state governor there mlitias already
The multinatils companies are happy having an easy day because all they do is to spend small monies and watch the rural poor fight with the FG
The federal civil service is filled with corrupt people that are making people more corrupt so no amount of money you spend will ever satify them.

The duty of the FG is to make sure that each state is loyal to the Federation. Now to the solution to the problem

SOLUTION

METHOD

1) FEDERALISM IN PHASES

2) PREREQUISITE STATEHOOD


FEDERALISM IN PHASES

This i suggest the federal government hand picks states in the six geo political region.  the states would be used as a guinea pig. If the states can stand the next face will be implemented.

So in essence

states would be watched on the following

1) Power
2) Road
3) Water Suppply
4) Security (law and order)
5) Judicial service
6) Ability to pay its Revenues to the federation account
6) ability to conduct an election and identication

all this areas will be watched by a federal committe over a period of time if any of the states fail they will revert back.


The Second method is

PREREQUISITE STATEHOOD

With this is very simple if any states want to go completely as a true Federal state then you must provide the following for 8years


1) Power
2) Road
3) Water Suppply
4) Security (law and order)
5) Judicial service
6) Ability to pay its Revenues to the federation account
7) ability to conduct an election and identication
Build houses for its state citizens
9) Able to have an efficient transport system

The result will bring people to work hard rather than rob the federal purse.

FORGOT THE IMPORTANT ALL RESOURCES WILL BE GIVEN TO THE STATES TO HANDLE

Thank God we can show unity, but should it only be unity when it is supposedly coming from a white man.

I have said it and will say it a again not untill we Change our mind to our leadership Psyche people like Thor will throw dust into our eyes.

A good Leadership is a like a Child you must have patient for it and correct it in love. Even if we have a criminal as a leadership let us deal with him in love.

We need to declare love for our leadership. We back in the days killed our leadership for a reason were they corrupt ? if they were we should deal with it and not let the presidency seem to be corrupt and theiving.


The President is not same as the presidency
A leader is not same as Leadership.

We Nigerians Should show thanks to God.

IT IS JUST COMMON SENSE THAT WHAT EVER IS NOT APPRECIATED WILL DEPRECIATE.

To be living in a condition and you decide to do something and you fail is better than to do nothing about a situation. everyone has it own field. There was a time you could not imagine Nigerian owning banks in Togo but now see.

We nigerians are condemned to succceed we must we will succeed.

power and clean water will come. inventuion in old britain did not take a logical queue. There is no single format to development. India is developing but there is extreme poverty in some parts.

In some chineese home it is very hard to send a child to school. having children tough but they develope. In China there millions that have no Electrity but manufacture stuff.

There is no single format in development.