₦airaland Forum

Blood_Shed:
If you don't behave like a girl's ATM then you're not "man enough".

Funny how manhood is measured these days by how much you kiss a woman's Bottom.

1) A real man never raises his hands at a woman, even if she's standing over you with an axe to your head
2) A real man always compliments a woman, even if it ain't due.
3) A real man always opens doors for a woman, even if he's carring something with both hands and she isn't.
4) A real man always takes care of his woman's children, even when he's not the father.

It goes on

stagger:
I need to ask this question because this subsidy removal plan of hers is going to affect Nigerians negatively.

I have begun to count the cost of such a move to my business, which will definitely go up at a time when I am already hard pressed passing on the same to consumers.

I am considering moving to Benin Republic as a result. Personally, I have witnessed the effect of the policies of these World bank economists starting from 1986. I saw what the introduction of SAP by Chu Okongwu and Kalu Idika Kalu did to the standard of living of my family as a boy. Now I am having to face similar choices as a man and frankly, I need to give my kids better option.

I have a very deep and concentrated hatred for these world bank economists, and when I see Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala talking on TV about this their "growth of the Nigerian economy" at a time when I see all the poverty around, my blood just boils uncontrollably.

Personally, I will like to see her and the haters of the Nigerian populace who have done nothing but stolen this country blind, dragged on the streets like Muammer Gadhafi.

Some will argue that she got Nigeria's debt profile reduced, but I think Nigerians were not told the true story of the cost of that process. I have never known the Paris or London Club of creditors to be that magnanimous when dealing with third world countries.

IN CAPITALISM, NOTHING GOES FOR NOTHING. France and Italy were promised a large chunk of Libya's oil rights, which is why they led the NATO bombardment to take down Gadhafi.

Why should Nigerians pay so much money for something produced from the riches under their feet? If indeed there is subsidy, why does she want the responsibility of feeding this oil cabal transferred to the Nigerian people, when refineries could have been built with the kind of money I know that many people are carting away in Abuja on a daily basis? (I know this for a fact because I live in the FCT and I know some of these people on a one-one basis)

Nigerians, we need to wake up! An unemployed graduate set himself ablaze for Tunisia, Egypt and Libya to be free. When do we wake up from our self-induced stupor?

Beaf:
Illegality is the only thing being sacrificed. There were no laws governing the past structure (Excess Crude), therefore it was considered illegal by all comers.
The governors on the other hand saw this as a free for all to demand and divide, because the constitution has loopholes that entitles them to the ECA money; therefore, the country could never make any real savings or foreign investments.

The shiny brand new SWF is fully ring-fenced from any greedy paws by law (hence the governors are upset) and ties very neatly into the other economic and strategic plans of the FG, notably the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).
One of the principal thrusts of the PIB is to break up the NNPC into several units that will all generate profits, rather than being the current budgetry sinkholes they are. One of the units of the split NNPC will be a drilling and prospecting company that will vie for business (prospecting, drilling and refining) across the Globe; much of such forays will be initially financed by the SWF; when the company is properly up and running, some of its profits will serve to drive the SWF.

The above is just a small example from the oil sector alone. Along with GEJ's new local content laws, we will see oil begin to work for the country for the first time in our 51 year history. Before now Shell and its likes simply drilled whatever quantity of oil they wanted, gave us any figure for number of barrels drilled, got paid without Nigerian involvement and that what it.
Slaves in our own land.

The SWF will help power all sorts of investments in every kind of field. Nigeria could, for example, invest in a high tech chip manufacturing plant in Hong Kong and filter the technology back home; we could even use our fund as aggressively as the Chinese use theirs and wholly buy up high tech companies all over the Globe. Before you know it, Nigeria would be a developed nation. We have the money to buy that for ourselves, in fact we have had it for decades, its just that we have also lacked visionary leaders for decades.

Well done GEJ, we be luv'n the Fresh Air!

freepeople:
[size=20pt]This is bull.sh.it I went to Shoprite today. What is Seun's motive? I'm disappointed with Mr Seun[/size]

OneNaija:
Port Harcourt - The Rivers State Government plans to spend 188 million Euros on the construction of a mono-rail in Port Harcourt and has earmarked one billion naira for a cable stayed bridge and ring road in the city.

The government has also asked the newly created Ministry of Niger Delta to assist the state government in the construction of the projects.

For the mono-rail, the government said it would aid in easing the transportation difficulties currently encountered by the people because of the sacking of commercial motorcyclists from Port Harcourt.

Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi told Chief Ufot Ekaete when the minister visited Port Harcourt, last weekend, that the Federal government had abandoned the state in terms of citing projects in the state, pointing out that it was a serious problem that must be resolved immediately.

"We think that part of the solution to that problem is to build a monorail that will be able to handle mass transportation of people and we will commence as soon as the Assembly passes the Appropriation Bill into law and we wish that you can partner with us".

Amaechi said it was regrettable that the topography of the area had made the cost of road construction so expensive, explaining that the state was the only one with about 3000 creeks, "causing people untold sufferings".

Particularly, he told Ekaete that many lives had been lost in the state as a result of cholera outbreak emanating from the pollution of the environment. He then begged the federal government to clean up the environment for the sake of the people.

He then identified unemployment, poverty, lack of infrastructural development and non-enforcement of the law as the factors responsible for the crisis in the Niger Delta, expressing the hope that the minister would use his experience to muster the necessary political will to find solutions to the problems.

Ekaete on his part agreed that the budget to the ministry this year was paltry in comparison with the myriad of problems but that it was better to start from somewhere and with what was available "and ask for more later because there is no time to waste".

He warned that some thieves who would come in the name of being contractors will be brought on their knees "because any project not properly executed in accordance with acceptable standards would be promptly terminated and the contractor and those connected thith the shoddy jobs prosecuted and public funds recovered."

Abagworo:
Port Harcourt — Abonnema wharf community is a popular but dangerous jetty in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It is a waterfront community with an estimated population of over 23, 000 different families, living close to petroleum tank farms belonging to different oil companies, such as Sigmund Nigeria Limited ( now Aiteo energy resource), Sorelink oil and Dozzy oil and gas.

Angala-Pele- Poku, as it was originally known in the 1960s, the overcrowded shanty community, where 3-4 people share a sleeping room, is usually a busy commercial area, where tankers queue up daily to load refined petroleum products. It is also situated not too far from the Rivers State Government House, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) , the Rivers State Secretariat among others, which raises concern among many as well as residents of the area, of a possible explosion that may affect not just the 23, 000 families, but also government institutions.

This year, a major tragedy, witnessed by this reporter was averted when a fully loaded petroleum tanker exploded at a distance not too far from one of the companies that owns petroleum tank farms, damaging houses and forcing thousands of people to flee their homes for safety, considering the crowded nature of the houses, and a possibility of the fire extending to the tanks.

This reporter with two other journalists from Business Day and a Port Harcourt based newspaper, experienced the hazards of their profession when they were surrounded by youths in Abonnema Wharf, for the trying to find out the cause of a tanker explosion, that sent the entire residents and oil companies in the area to scamper for safety.

It took the intervention of some elders in the community, who took this reporter and his colleagues into their compounds, only to gather from a source that "Those boys attacking you people are the same boys who caused the explosion by going under the tanker to smoke Indian hemp, and they are afraid that when you get to find out and publish, they may be in trouble."

Mr. Jim Tom-George is the Public Relations Officers of the Abbonnema Wharf House Owners Association (AWHOA). He told this reporter "As a community, we have written petitions to the Rivers State Commissioner of police over the safety of the community from the activities of these oil companies, but nothing has been done about that."

Residents of Abonnema Wharf, who are believed to be 80% employed by the coastal marine, 25 % civil servants/oil workers and predominantly from the Ijaw and Kalabari ethnic groups, have continuously raised alarm over their safety, as regards the activities of oil companies surrounding them.

"The world must come to our aid! Tank farms are explosions waiting to happen. Living with petroleum tank farms is Hell!. Petroleum tanks will kill us, remove them now! Abbonnema Wharf community is not a refinery but home to over 23, 000 families. Take away your tanks of death," Abbonnema residents protest.

The PRO of AWHOA said that the community had repeatedly written several petitions to relevant authorities as well as the oil companies, expressing concern over the impending danger, but had never gotten a favorable response.

"We have been writing petitions to the government on this, but nothing has been done. What we are saying is that government should always take the lives of this community into consideration, when siting any economic development project. The Department for Petroleum Resources (DPR) who gave these companies the licenses to operate, should have carried out an environmental impact assessment. In developed countries, petroleum tank farms are built kilometers away from peoples' residential areas.

Now between January and February 2007 we experienced pollution from the sandblasting of tank farms, which sent residents to hospital and clinics for medical treatment. In May 2007, a fire caused by a fuel leakage raged for over thirty minutes. In August 2008, over 120 drums of petroleum oil facility spilled onto the streets of Abonnema Wharf, and members of the community were left to initiate clean-up efforts. In the process, hundreds of jerry cans were filled up. So also in January this year, a tanker loaded with refined petroleum sparked a fire that damaged houses, cars, crops and properties. It also resulted to injuries that sent many young people to the hospital." Tom George observed.

This reporter gathered that in the early 1960s, the petroleum tank depots in Abonnema Wharf were originally used for the storage of palm oil , before they were later sold to the oil companies, and were converted for the storage of refined petroleum products. The number of tanks surrounding the community according to a source, are estimated at 50 with Shorlinks owning about 5, while Sigmund has about 24 tanks, with the remaining are owned by other oil companies.

In a petition written by the Abonnema landlords/landladies Association to the Rivers State Ministry for Environment, the community pointed out that "The above umbrella body of landlord/landladies of Abonnema Wharf community writes to draw the Ministries and agencies attention to the grave, ongoing environmental hazards in Abbonema Wharf community, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, threatening public health and the environmental safety of the residents regarding Sigmund, Shorelink, Dozzy and other tank farm depots, located close to residential homes.

Businesses and the natural habitat of aquatic livestock, conflagration arising from possible explosion will devastate not only Abonnema Wharf, but also the Government House in Port Harcourt, state secretariat complex, Braithwaithe memorial hospital Central Bank Port Harcourt, part of old GRA and the whole mile one, NPA Rivers Port, Rivers State court complex , and offices which are just within scorching distance of the depots."

This reporter also gathered that the entire community including Njemazi (already demolished) is planned for demolition by the Rivers State government, as it is being regarded as safe havens for criminal elements who terrorist the state.

"Despite the presence of security personnel and check points along the entry to Abonnema Jetty, criminals still have a field day. If you are living here in Abonnema, you have to be careful of buying things from the youths. This is because most of these things are stolen properties. One funny thing about these youths is that when they run out of money after selling those stolen goods to you, they come back for another payment. If you refuse giving them something, they will threaten to go back and inform the original owner that you bought his or her stolen goods," A resident of the area who prefers anonymity, told this reporter.

However, the PRO of AHOA said, "The perception of the waterfront communities as being inhabited by criminals, and therefore being impenetrable and difficult to effect arrest in the area, is also not entirely true. It is all a mere excuse laced with deceit to uproot the Rivers Ijaw strong holds from Port Harcourt."

On the planned demolition, the PRO accused the state government of buying out properties from the owners, with the intention of using the land for whatever pleases it, including bringing in more oil companies and foreign investors to take over the land for other business venture.

The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and communication, Mrs Ibim Semenitari could not reached for comment, and did not also respond to several telephone calls and text messages sent to her.

"The Abonnema Wharf, if demolished will render an estimated 23,000 different families homeless. We have nowhere to go to from Abonnema Whaf community and it is made up of extended communities of (Afikpo, Akwuzu, Ojike, Uruala, Elechi and the displaced Njemazi waterfront", he said.
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Njemanzi, which is one of the over 40 water-front communities, scattered across the state capital, was brought down to rubbles by bulldozers of the state government on the orders of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on August 28, 2009.

Recently, the Regional campaign coordinator of Amnesty International, Mr. Daniel Valls, disclosed in Port Harcourt, while speaking at the launch of 'people live here' campaign to mark the 2011 World Habitat Day, that more than two years after the demolition of Njemazi, over 17,000 residents of the waterfront are still homeless, and that the state government was yet to kick-start its much talked-about urban renewal programme.

Experts and residents alike see Abonnema as the most dangerous jetty to live in, whether it is seen from the perspective of the surrounding oil tanks and its proximity to government establishments, the uncertainty associated with the planned demolition of the area, or the dangers of living with criminal elements. All eyes are now on the Rivers State government.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110180497.html

oraclefemi:
Nigerians ! when topics like this arise we act as if we are too educated and we just reply anyhow, damn the word trust, we have facebook and blackberry these days and women can do and undo ! Personally i know of my friends that have furcked up to 8 girls each through facebook and these girls have their status as in a relationship , some even use the guys pic as their dp. Yes it is very good to set traps for a girl, i repeat in these current nigerian system it is the right thing to do. Dont trust those ones that claim good girl,they are the worst ! I dont want to brag about my personal exploits. Women have weak emotions , if you cant lay her it means youre not touching that part of her emotions so dont be surprised if someone else discovers it and lay her in 5mins when youve been struggling for years to even see her bosoms ! Trap the beeaacttccchh ! I am a traditional Nigerian man , i dont really believe in all thsee western civilization crap most of us all do, i am the type of guy that would slap a woman that is silly enough to insult me , i dont believe in dont hit a woman crap ! i will check your emails , bb chats and facebook emails of any woman i marry, infact if i can set a gps tracker on her i will.

otokx:
another political talk to bamboozle outsiders, tell amaechi to repair the roads, the rains have stopped.

Litmus:
What I “like” about Ghana is the fact that ever since the world recognised the potential of Nigeria and their massive media machine kicked into gear to demonise Nigeria to ensure Nigeria dose not fulfil that potential, Ghana people who are always too willing to please the white man have typical jumped on the bandwagon. And now Ghana suddenly has no more thieves, criminals or murderers because all their thieves, criminals and murderers are Nigerians.

macroworld:
Where is the Sailor ? Whats his/her version of the Story, I am sure they are not scrapping him/ her with the Vessel !
How did it leave Nigerian waterways ? So many unanswered questions ?

moshoodn:
We lead, others follow. . .

BetaThings:
Yes, that is what we have been led to believe over time
Ghanaians are also excellent thieves
They have only managed to keep their nose clean

BetaThings:
If we cannot beat them in football, this is an opportunity to show them.
Do we have any new naval ship that can take their navy out?

PR country - that was how Adoboli caused UBS $2.3b - always claiming to be clean!

otumfour:
REFRESHING TO SEE  A FOOL DISPLAY WHY HE HAS A LITTLE BRAIN IN PUBLIC   ,

then he goes further to post this

u don't need to be a rocket scientist to determine how disturbed this fool is, u keep writing demeaning essays on Ghana & Ghanaians on nairaland yet, u marry 1 wtf is wrong wit u  microphallus son of a turd.

rickross! e no be u do am ooo, I blame Ghana for allowing u  to come  enjoy our proper electricity for free 24/7. fools like u are the one's drawing Nigeria backwards, your politicians say have your ilk right they want ya, imbecilic frog.

Ironi:
I don't know how a retarrd like you is even allowed to come to Ghana? I don't live in Europe but I know the woring ways of the stinking Nigerian prosttitutes in Europe. The white thrash don't even want to fck them anymore so they are selling their useless stinking nyases for $1. Sometimes they let their dogs fck them.

So you married a Ghanaian prosttitute who was selling herself in the slums of Accra? and you promised to take her to Nigeria? and she wants to go live in a shiit hole? I think what you have for a wife is a Ghanaian thrash, the lowliest of the Ghanaian prosttitues.

I'll make sure a useless Nigerian piimp like you is deported from Ghana.

A piece of shiit like you should be thrown out.

Useless of the useless Nigerian thrash.

stagger:
I concur. CIV and Ghana are Africa's best at the moment. Cameroun is in transition. We saw this at the last world cup. South Africa have a fantastic side. They were just unlucky not to qualify.

NIGERIA? LIVING IN PURE DENIAL. Our football is in the doldrums. Funny enough, if we put in the same concerted effort that has been put into our local league that has seen at least a team always reaching the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League and Confederations Cup for the last 8 years running, we will see the national team pick up.

But the Super Eagles is a cash cow for too many people so I do not see us going anywhere.

Ironi:
Ricky_Ross, you are an ignorant fool who seem to enjoy writing nonsense.

You talk as if Nigeria is a developed country. Nigeria is a poor shiit hole like any poor African country. In fact, Nigeria is one of the worse countries in Africa. You have over 70% of your people living in poverty. Do the math and come again. That is about 3x the population of the whole Ghana. Nigeria has 10x any problem Ghanaians have. So if I were you I'll shut my arrogant loud mouth and crawl back under the stone you came from. If Ghana has schools under trees, your problems are so overwhelming you have lost track or given up any hope of solving them, so you even can't organize schools under trees for your teeming population.

Use common sense, you people don't even know the actual population of your country but with the size of your population do you have any idea the number  of Nigerian kids who have even been forgotten?

When a poor third world country has population like ants and pests how can you possibly keep track of anything.

Oh you want to talk about prostitution? come to an area here in Europe and see how Nigerians are selling themselves? They are being fcked by dogs for $1. Yes, there are Ghanaian prosttitues too, but like I said, You meet 1 Ghanaian prosttitue you meet 10 Nigerian prostitues.

I know Nigeria, Lagos, very well where wrapped shiit is thrown from one house to the other so stop talking as if Nigeria is a developed country. Btw if you want to insult tribes, are igbos not the people who eat human fresh in Nigeria? Yes, we know all that, arrogant fool. 

otumfour:
This statement by the politician and comments from some dumb arzz nairalanders defending the man just goes to explain why Nigerian politicians have been Desecrating Nigeria and it's people for so long aka. "The 1 party rules nation". I mean seriously   A man makes such nonsensical statement without stats/facts to back 'em up and most of y'all go joy-jumping. Sad one @ that, btw, alhaji haram! Really! remember the Nigerian couple who were featured in a South African commercial making reference to S.A. as being the giant of Africa on CNN ; do u remember how enraged nairalanders were with their posts? and this was just a tv commercial ; let a South African minister make a statement abt johannisburgh having better and more roads than the whole of Nigeria and tell me u and your people will sit your arzz's down and not alter a word.

Rickyross or whatever u call urself, if u are so bitter abt Ghana, why don't u move your business to ivory coast or better yet back to your homeland Nigeria huh! U know u'r enjoying electricity 24/7 thus, it's hard to leaving the place. Dude talks as if he ain't enjoying his stay in Ghana, I know Nigerians don like Ghanaians so I don even have it in Ma plans of ever visiting that country, so take a leaf from me and leave Ghana! the country u claim hates Nigerians so much yet more and more Nigerians keep moving in, now we even have Camerounians and Ivorians trooping in as well, whom are we lying to huh!

Advice for your politicians, they should stick to their looting tradition and stop making delusional comparisons. A country tht boasts of oil and all tht crap and y'all can't even enjoy 5hrs of electricity, I mean how is this possible in 2011. I remember hearing generator sounds in most of your movies and I keep asking myself, how do they cope?

There are some good and real Nigerians out there tho, all is not lost.

adconline:
Where is the source  for  the  "numbers "  he cited? Is he making unsubstantiated claims? Are Surulere/Aguda area roads - where he grew up not part of this " Dubai of Africa" transformation? By the way, Ghana has better road network than Naija in terms of quality and maintenance . Did he ever think like that?

Mcleo007:
@op, seems u got a beaf for Ghanaians! Truth is, they live better than majority of Nigerians.