₦airaland Forum

Sir, I have finished lamba 1, can u helep me finish the rest? I am not feeling fine.

sauer: I think a difference has to be made between which Total is involved. Recently I got an offer from Total downstream on Afribank street in VI. The offer was just a little less than 4m per annum, including all benefits with the damnation of being posted to any state of the federation. I rejected this offer cos I got something better elsewhere.
So, it kinda amazes me to see the figures quoted here. Perhaps they only apply to Totol upstream

Gbam! To ur post abeg.

I just wanted to find out if total upstream is among the top payers. Where is total downstream on the pay scale? ( I.e compared to oando, con oil, MRS, mobil downstream and others)

PS pls informed answers only not guess works.

Well this just crossed my mind and I decided to share....
Normally at work numerous temptation arises to be unethical... A deal that was forgotten and u conner it urself, u inflate procurement prices so u benefit, u extort money from clients for doing the job u are paid to do etc.

Well it's simple, here is how I avoid falling into such corrupt practice....

1. Always have a plan for the day, week and month, e.g I need X naira to service my car, so I will wait till my salary comes next week and take X for the car

2. Most claim necessity make them compromise their integrity. E.g before the month ran out Mr. Z offers me X naira to expedite his application, and mehn do I need X for my car.

3. Here is where the plan helps. I simply tell Mr Z to wait for his turn, reject the X naira bribe, and wait for the month end to service my car. QED. Coz think of it if I never met Mr Z then I will have to wait till the end of the month to service my car, so I might as well just wait and keep my integrity intact.

I hav lost count of haw many times my grandmother died, even though her first and real death was b4 I was born.

I hope they restore part time programmes.... I fell in love with that financial mathematics at first sihgt, can anyone elaborate more on whether that collabo between uni abj and the math center is NUC accredited.?

I dey craze

There is much said about the the petroleum industry bill PIB and international oil companies IOCs. I am not here to discuss the economics or politics of the bill, but the "labournomics" I.e how it will affect current and prospective employees in the oil and gas industry.

I am currently weighing a PhD scholarship versus a job at Total downstream.(I was more inclined to take the job as a phd in India isn't that tantalising) but with the recent PIB news I am discussion find out what the industry will look like in the long run. So here is what I want us (oil and gas workers and industry experts) to discuss:

1. What does the bill mean to the iOCs (+/-?)

2. How will it affect their revenues/turnover (or whatever they call it)

3. Would it require the IOCs to invest more or simply divest and change strategy of engagement

4. If 1 to 3 above will be for the worse how would it affect employees working for the IOCs

5. Normally when companies downsize it's like Last in First out, will my moving into oil and gas now, given the PIB as is, be a good move?

6. Finally what's the future of downstream operations for IOCs in Nigeria, Total seems to be very strong there, but will it be able to keep it's head above the oil given this new development?

Thanks in advance.

PS. I wouldn't mind front page for a thorough discussion

But on a second tot, OGG isn't bad, she Looks like one of my colleague hitting on me at work

I suggest the overall winner should actually put up another picture of herself so that we know it's really her... But it's just a suggestion. Let the best girl win

How about there be a run off between the winners of each group on a new thread - say by 9pm today. Coz there are pretty girls on other groups too

Who are those saying chillaz NA Arab? Mehn u need to see my neighbour, chillaz compared to her will be like comparing half current and over high current.(and she's proudly Nigerian.)

Below is an excerpt of what I just read in the New Nigerian newspaper....

"The District Church Council (DCC) Secretary of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Zaria that was attacked on Sunday by suicide bomber Reverend Christ Dariya said they got information few days before the attack that members of the Boko Haram in Zaria, met Friday and that they would strike on Sunday. According to him, Chairmen and Secretaries of Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN) were invited for meeting on the issue. On Saturday, the military personnel that were drafted to maintain peace around the church were withdrawn and they became apprehensive.

"...We were cautioned on the fact that Boko Haram were already in Zaria. we heard vividly there was a meeting on Friday and the Chairmen and secretaries of CAN Zone 1 were actually invited for a meeting and that Boko Haram were already in Zaria and that they were going to strike Sunday. Some of us were very concerned and thinking of what possible thing to do to avert such happenings."

He stated this yesterday when Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa paid a sympathy visit to the church premises in Wusasa, Zaria.
"I came back on Sunday from a meeting and drove into my office which is just behind (the church), that is the District Office. There were soldiers that were actually patrolling and guarding the area, I saw them packing their things and I drove there and ask two of them that we had this report which I am sure you had. You are packing your things and it does not speak well for the community and for me as a religious leader."
" I was told that the community was disturbing them, and that is why they have to move. I told them it was not the community that kept you here but it was the government. But they told me there were orders but I don't know where the orders came from" ( Source, New Nigerian, Tuesday, June 19, 2012).

Draw your own conclusions

thanx for the replies

My aim is not to apologize for my religion; I will not write as one who is ashamed of my way of life, and before you shout ‘Southern Muslim!’ like I’m certain you’re probably already thinking, let me inform you that Muslims all over the world are one and the same.
Once, the Prophet (PBUH) was asked ‘who is a Muslim?’, his reply made it clear that anyone who believes in the Oneness of God and offers as-salat (prayers) regularly is a Muslim; I call this the ‘minimum requirement(s) into the school of Islam’, a School of which I’m a proud student. I have faith in the Oneness of God, I observe as-salat, I give Zakat (charity), I fast during Ramadan, and I hope to go on pilgrimage soon. Muslim, I am, and I will die as one (Insha Allah).
Many times, I’ve had cause to dispel rumours about my religion (I do not conform to any form of stereotype, so I’ve had the privilege of hearing a lot of lies and conjecture). Once, on a bus from Enugu to Lagos, a preacher decided to get the attention of his ‘mobile congregation’ by misquoting and murdering verses from the Holy Qur’an. I respectfully waited for him to end his hateful sermon, then produced my Quran and read the actual verses to everyone in the bus. I even took time to explain what Jihad means, what it entails, and what led to it. Yes, I’m a woman; No, I’m not a scholar. But do you have to be male or a Reverend to understand the Bible?
As you most probably already know, Jihad means Holy War. There are two forms of Jihad- the one you fight within yourself (this entails choosing between what’s right and what’s wrong), and actual warfare.

Now, what led to it?
When the Prophet (PBUH) began to spread the message of Islam, the unbelievers (pagans, idol worshippers) of that time decided that Muslims didn’t deserve to live; they attacked Muslims, took over their properties, killed them. Muslims were oppressed. Initially, they were asked to ignore the pagans and maintain peace, but when the situation became unbearable, God asked them to fight back.

The first verse revealed with respect to Jihad (V 2:190) says ‘And fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but transgress not the limits. Truly, Allah likes not the transgressors‘. This verse is the ‘foundation’ of Jihad, it prescribes THE standard for warfare in the name of God.
Fight against those who fight against you; God did not say ‘fight against those who piss you off’, He didn’t say ‘fight against those who you don’t like’. ‘Fight against those who fight against you’ means self-defence is the ONLY form of violence that’s permitted.
‘But do not transgress limits’; self-defence was the previously established limit. ‘Transgression’ would then mean fighting people who didn’t attack you first. This is termed ‘irjaf’. Irjaf and Jihad are two extremely different things.

Before you judge the over one billion Muslims in the world by the actions of some hell-bound transgressors, kindly permit me to draw your attention to the Muslim Capital of the World; Saudi Arabia. Do Christians live there or not? How many times has a suicide bombing occurred there? How many times have some obviously deluded, highly misguided maniacs demanded that they all revert to Islam?

This brings me to another issue- suicide. My Qur’an tells me that suicide is a one-way ticket to Hell. Couple that with aggression, and tell me what the outcome would be.
This brings me, inevitably, to Boko Haram. Personally, I believe what happened in this case was a deliberate move by government to hijack a problem that should have been solved at inception, and turn it to a political tool for division.
Nigerians have always had a penchant for tribalism; add different religions to the mix and the potion becomes even more volatile and potentially lethal. Just how lethal that potion is, is what we’re all experiencing now.

Frankly, what this is about is speaking for myself and others like me, and most importantly, sparing Islam the pain of being seen as something it’s not.
Claiming Islam encourages violence is akin to saying that Christianity or Buddhism or Zoroastrianism, or even Scientology, gives room for a vice that some of its followers have.
Right now, I’m just so glad that Hitler and Truman weren’t Muslims.

My point? PEOPLE are evil, PEOPLE kill, and taking up arms and killing little children is no justification. Boko Haram does not have the mandate of Nigerian Muslims to exterminate Christians. When Boko Haram killed Imams almost on a daily basis, there were no reprisals. Nobody said ‘Muslims have asked Boko Haram to kill the clerics’. When busy areas of Kano were bombed, no one said ‘Muslims are killing Christians again’.

This selective anger, this selective pity, is what I do not like. My eldest sister is an evangelist, my niece bears the name ‘Chukwuamaka’, her father is an Igbo man. Why would I, a Muslim, then decide to send Boko Haram on a mission to kill Christians? Or why would I harbour murderous thoughts towards Christians at all?
My Quran tells me that ‘…….[b]he who takes a life will be judged like he killed all of mankind….he who saves a life will be judged like he saved all of mankind’ ([/b]5:32). If Boko Haram is following any sort of manual, it is not this Qur’an (or any other for that matter because there are no different versions. The Qur’an is the same anywhere in the world). Perhaps if we did the right thing and displaced those thieves and murderers from their seats of power, we would find copies of the manual beneath those seats.
There’s a rule I abide by; ‘if you don’t know it, don’t say it’. Seventy-two virgins as reward for suicide? I’ve read the Qur’an from cover to cover countless times and not once have I come across it. The Holy Qur’an does not portray Paradise as a reward for suicide and/or murder.
I pray that God gives all those who’ve lost their loved ones- Muslims, Christians, Traditionalists, free thinkers- the fortitude to bear the loss.
Rinsola Abiola
@Rinsola_Abiola

Cool, cool. Its nothing personal to me, was just thinking... But it's good to know what others think.

@kobo, I thought the mantra was presumed innocent until proven guilty! How does targeted killings of people at gonin gora highway (Abuja kaduna) or television (inside kaduna). If we are to suspect anything, I would say these were innocent travellers and bystanders. Coz going by precedence the attackers would either be miles away or armed with guns shooting at random.

@ dudu, my condemnation or not doesn't make wrong, right. Anyways I condemned BH even in my first post, if u had read the OP with an open mind. That said u need to get the drift here, I don't care if u support the xtian youths or BH, neither would have I have commented if I had found such comment here on NL, my concern is national dailies using such uncut language. GET THE STORY HERE, IT'S NOT ABOUT CONDEMNING BH OR THE REPRISERS (even though I condemn both) IT'S ABOUT USE OF BIASED LANGUAGE BY THE MEDIA.

"The state government promptly declared a 24-hour curfew to arrest the slide into anarchy[b] as youths attacked people suspected to have links or were sympathetic to the cause of Boko[/b] Haram, the terrorist organisation, which many suspected of masterminding the attacks."
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/scores-killed-in-kaduna-zaria-bombings-reprisals/118205/

Imagine this crap reporting from thisday for that mater! I also saw this allegation on other news papers, and other follow follow radio stations... It's just annoying, imagine some one who lost a family on the Abuja kaduna highway reading this poo. My point is as soon as the media start taking sides, they are fanning sectarianism. BH should be condemned so also should the xtian reprisal and any other crime for that matter..

@ dudu, I have nothing to say to you than to ask how old u are, and if you have ever left your region before? Coz ur reasoning is deficient (with all due respect)

It is no news that Muslims are casualties to BH as well as xtians if not more (e.g damaturu cattle mkt, Kano FGC, yola, kaduna sardauna crescent etc all these cases and more had more Muslim casualties). So it is a known fact that BH is a common enemy to nigerians and a mutual enemy to Muslims and xtians.

Yesterday, the I read and heard media reports that those caught up in the kaduna reprisal attacks where 'suspected BH sympathisers' really? Were the innocent souls travelling from Abuja to kaduna who were killed at the gonin gora BH sympathisers? Or was it the innocent cobblers and beggars slaughtered at mostly xtian settlements of television and the like?

I don't know but if this is the kind of media coverage we get, the one which fans and encourage sectarianism, then we are in for a big jolt. Innocent people were killed by BH and xtian youths, yet the media calls some innocent and others BH sympathisers. Based on what criteria? Did they interview the dead?

If I had found this subtle incitement on NL I wouldn't bother commenting, but for our national dailies to be spewing unguarded and inciteful trash, that calls for concern.

This is another one of them blast from the past...

Segun came home from the pub late one Friday evening
stinking drunk, as he often did, and crept into bed
beside his wife who was already asleep.
When he awoke he found a strange man standing at the
end of his bed wearing a long flowing white robe. "Who
the hell are you?" Demanded Segun, "and what are you
doing in my bedroom?".

The mysterious Man answered, "This isn't your bedroom
and I'm St Peter".

Segun was stunned "You mean I'm dead!!! That can't be,
I have so much to live for, I haven't said goodbye to
my family, you've got to send me back straight
away".

St Peter replied "Yes, you can be reincarnated but
there is a catch. We can only send you back as a dog
or a hen."

Segun knowing there was a farm not
far from his house,he asked to be sent back as a hen.

A flash of light later he was covered in feathers and
clucking around pecking the ground.

The farmyard rooster strolled over and said, "So
you're the new hen, how are you enjoying your first
day here?"

"It's not so bad" replies Segun, "but I have this
strange feeling inside like I'm about to explode".

"You're ovulating." explained the rooster, "on't tell
me you've never laid an egg before".

"Never" replies Segun

"Well just relax and let it happen".

And so he did and after a few uncomfortable seconds
later, an egg pops out from under his tail. An immense
feeling of relief swept over him and his emotions got
the better of him as he experienced motherhood for the
first time. When he laid his second egg, the feeling
of happiness was overwhelming and he knew that being
reincarnated as a hen was the best thing that ever
happened to him, ever!!!

The joy kept coming and as he was just about to lay
his third egg he felt an enormous smack on the back of
his head and heard his wife shouting:
"Segun, wake up you drunken bas*ard, you're sh*tting
in the bed!"

I think this first appeared in 2006. ENJOY

. A flight from London to Kano develops faults in Nigerian airspace.
very worried the captain calls the Aminu Kano airport.
"Aminu kano airport this is captain smith reporting flight 007"
"o you copy?"


Kano tower;- "yes Alhaji Smith we kofi"


British Airways "Flight 007 Reporting technical faults"


Kano tower;- "kai haba!"


British Airways; - "sorry tower couldnt get that"


Kano tower; - "okay phlight 00Seben kan you tune fawa in injin?"


British Airways; - "Negative power in engines dead"


Kano tower;- "Walahi?"


British Airways; - "Negative didnt copy"


Kano Tower;- "Kan u kom down to altitude twenty thousand pit?"


British Airways;- "negative tower, wings wont respond"


Kano tower;- "kai!"


British Airways;- "negative didnt copy that tower"


Kano Tower;- "okay d flane will kom down in som tym due to low injin fawa, ofun yo taya at altidute sis thousan fit, due 1st sebenty digri"


British Airways;- "Negative, cant activate the landing gea


Kano tower;- 'wayyo!'


British Airways;- "awaiting order, flight 007"


Kano Towers;- "okay refit apfta me"


British Airways;- "okay what?"


Kano Tower;- "ASHADU ANLA ILAHA ILLALAHU, WA ASHADU ANNA MUHAMMADAN
RASULULLAHI

I remember when the joke section was still young, you would come here and read nice jokes to cheer u up after a busy day. But these days I don't know if the only people who post here are gender confused secondary school leavers, awaiting their post jamb or post whatever results?

So this thread is to the good old times where jokes were meant to make u laugh so please feel free to dig into the archives and post ur best joke of all times. I will do the same soon.

PS. I hope this makes FP. Coz nothing seems to make it from here!

^
I applied through their website (i cant even remember when exactly), then an external recruitment consultant contacted us for app test, after then interviews. then we were invited for interview at Total by their own HR, then medicals and then here I am waiting for the offer!

^
Logic used to be defined as reasoning conducted Or assessed according to strict principles of validity. Then we saw 'Logic Mind'' ..... FYI I am not Yoruba.

They say there is no smoke without fire, before you brand me as a conspiracy theorist, please read and share your own perspectives on global events.

I used to remember Pakistan as a country of brilliant nuclear scientist/physicists, in hot rivalry with India in all aspects, then came the US and now they are more known for suicide bombers and militants.

Iraq used to be known as a country with mythical cities like the famous Baghdad; home of one of the worlds oldest university, and although ruled by a tyrant the classical cities of Iraq never lost their enchantment, then came the US and u know the rest...

Nigeria a country with a significant military history, the original and only BIG BROTHER AFRICA while SA was wallowing under the crush of arpatheid, a country rich in culture and religion, it citizens well known for their 'I no send' attitude across Africa and indeed the world,..... but do we really want to know what happens when America comes?

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COVERT OPS IN NIGERIA: Fertile Ground for US Sponsored Balkanization

By Nile Bowie

Global Research, April 11, 2012

While the Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate following Tuareg rebels’ declaration of an independent state in Mali’s troubled northern territory [1], recent events in Nigeria indicate a potential for increased regional instability. Boko Haram, a Salafist organization seeking to overthrow the secular administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has recently killed 38 civilians in a suicide car bomb targeting nearby churches holding Easter services in the northern city of Kaduna [2]. As part of an ongoing campaign of sectarian violence, the group has strived to implement sharia law through the establishment of an Islamic State in northern Nigeria [3]. The group’s belligerent acts of violence claimed more than 500 lives during 2011 [4], prompting President Jonathan to call the current security crisis more dire than that experienced during 1967’s Biafran civil war, adding that jihadi sympathizers have successfully infiltrated his government and security agencies [5].

The group has claimed responsibility for the August 2011 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja [6], and its adoption of sophisticated tactics indicate that Boko Haram is receiving arms and training from abroad. Mainstream outlets can now be seen readying public opinion for an increased presence in Africa under the Right to Protect Doctrine (R2P) by warning of increased terrorist attacks in Europe, following shifts in Islamist activity away from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the "ungoverned spaces" of the Sahel [7]. While the ongoing War on Terror provides the needed justification for the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to expand its base of operations throughout the Sahel and the troubled regions of east and central Africa, the modus operandi of Boko Haram indicates foreign nurturing in numerous mediums.

The Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World Society [8]. During an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera with Abu Mousab Abdel Wadoud, the AQIM leader states that Algeria-based organizations have provided arms to Nigeria's Boko Haram movement "to defend Muslims in Nigeria and stop the advance of a minority of Crusaders" [9]. It remains highly documented that members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms [10] and logistical support [11] from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011. While top AFRICOM General Carter Ham claims terrorist networks pose a "real challenge" to the United States [13], warning of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and the stock of chemical weapons they obtained after raiding Gaddafi’s weapons bunker [12], the confirmed reports accusing the US of arming and training Islamist terrorist groups remain safely neglected in official Pentagon press statements.

While NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stavridis openly acknowledged the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters among Libya’s rebels [14], the New Yorker has recently confirmed that the US has trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Nevada [15], a US State Department listed terrorist organization (#29) [16] responsible for the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists [17]. As the UN warns that weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and explosives from Libya may reach Boko Haram [18], armed Tuareg fighters in northern Mali have been seen operating in army issue Toyota Hi-Lux technical trucks [19], armed with mortars, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons originally belonging to the LIFG, al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan rebels [20]. UN reports also disclose that Boko Haram members from Nigeria and Chad had received training at Al-Qaeda camps in Mali in 2011 [21]

Nigerian recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22], and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982 Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.

A divided and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and leading US foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called ‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a medium-sized oil multinational” [25].

Following the mass exodus of Chinese business interests during the Libyan conflict, a shattered Nigeria would ultimately create conditions where China’s growing cooperation with Abuja can be challenged and ultimately, disrupted. China has provided extensive economic, military and political support to Nigeria, an important source of oil and petroleum for Beijing. In addition to sponsoring Nigeria for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council [26], China has invested in Africa’s booming telecommunications market by building and launching a geostationary commercial satellite, owned by Nigeria and operated in Abuja, [27] as a gesture of increased partnership between the two nations. In 2010, China and Nigeria signed a $23 billion deal to construct three fuel refineries in Nigeria, adding an extra 750,000 barrels per day of domestic refining capacity [28].

While Algerian intelligence confirms a direct link between Boko Haram and western-financed AQIM [29], Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claims to have visited Mecca with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, where the group received financial and technical support from Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (AQAP) [30]. While US officials acknowledge the presence of Al-Qaeda within the militant Syrian opposition [31], the Saudi Arabian Monarchy and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have created a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, to encourage soldiers to defect from the Syrian military and join opposition ranks [32], as part of an ongoing regime change program. A recently released subcommittee report issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security entitled “Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland” [33] further indicates the long-term objectives of counter terrorism operations in the region. The document reiterates the importance of sensitive resources within the Niger Delta region, and calls for using extrajudicial assassinations and unmanned aerial drone bombardments to combat the growing threat of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.

The United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania conducted a series of African war game scenarios in preparation for the Pentagon’s expansion of AFRICOM under the Obama Administration. One scenario tested the US Africa Command’s capacity to respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war, by sending 20,000 US troops to battle vying rebel factions seeking to control the Niger Delta oil fields [34]. At a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, former AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM would operate under the theatre-goal of “combating terrorism” to prioritize the issue of America’s growing dependence on African oil [35]. At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests [36].

In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic objectives of "protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment." [37] As covertly supporting terrorist organizations to achieve foreign policy aims appears to be the commanding prerequisite of foreign policy operations under the Obama Administration, Boko Haram exists as a separate arm of the US destabilization apparatus, aimed at shattering Africa’s most populous nation and biggest potential market. As Russia and China continue to assert themselves in the UNSC against calls to intervene on behalf of Syria’s militant opposition, the international community must adequately investigate the sources responsible for orchestrating insurgent activity in the Sahel and reprimand those parties accordingly.

Notes
[1] Triumphant Tuareg rebels fall out over al-Qaeda's jihad in Mali, The Telegraph, April 07, 2012
[2] Suicide Bomb Attack in Divided Nigeria Damages 2 Churches, The New York Times, April 8, 2012
[3] Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists? BBC, January 11, 2012
[4] Nigeria stunned by Kano attacks that killed more than 150, Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2012
[5] Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan: Officials back Boko Haram, BBC, January 8, 2012
[6] Abuja attack: Car bomb hits Nigeria UN building, BBC, August 26, 2011
[7] Mali's coup matters in London, too, The Guardian, April 3, 2012
[8] Boko Haram’s funding traced to UK, S/Arabia, The Nigerian Tribune, February 13, 2012
[9] Al-Qaida makes a move on troubled Nigeria, UPI, June 17, 2010
[10] France defends arms airlift to Libyan rebels, Reuters, June 30, 2011
[11] Surveillance and Coordination With NATO Aided Rebels, The New York Times, August 21, 2011
[12] Top US General warns of coordination between al-Qaeda-linked African terror groups, The Telegraph, March 01, 2012
[13] Statement of General Carter Ham U.S. Army Commander, United States Africa Command, AFRICOM, February 29, 2012
[14] Libya: al-Qaeda among Libya rebels, Nato chief fears, The Telegraph, March 29, 2011
[15] Our Men in Iran? The New Yorker, April 6, 2012
[16] Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State, Janurary 27, 2012
[17] 'US operated deep in Iran, trained assassins', YNET News, April 8, 2012
[18] Spiking Arms Proliferation, Organized Crime, Terrorism, Part of Fallout from Libyan Crisis Afflicting Sahel, Security Council Told, United Nations, January 26, 2012
[19] Arab Spring Bleeds Deeper into Africa, Asia Times March 24, 2012
[20] Qaddafi’s Weapons, Taken by Old Allies, Reinvigorate an Insurgent Army in Mali, The New York Times, February 5, 2012
[21] Arms from Libya could reach Boko Haram, al Qaeda: U.N. Reuters, Jan 26, 2012
[22] An Interview With Abdelmalek Droukdal, The New York Times, July 1, 2008
[23] Is Nigeria al-Qaeda’s new frontier? Geneva Centre for Security Policy, March 20, 2012
[24] How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen, Counterpunch, January 15, 1998
[25] Obama: The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, Progressive Press, 2008
[26] UN Security Council: China Backs Nigeria, AllAfrica, October 29, 2004
[27] China Builds And Launches A Satellite For Nigeria, The Washington Post, May 14, 2007
[28] Nigeria and china sign $23bn deal for three refineries, BBC, May 14, 2010
[29] Algeria says Nigeria's Boko Haram tied to al Qaeda, Reuters, November 13, 2011
[30] Boko Haram vows to fight until Nigeria establishes sharia law, The Guardian, January 27, 2012
[31] Al-Qaeda infiltrating Syrian opposition, U.S. officials say, The Washington Post, February 17, 2012
[32] Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries to fund Free Syrian Army, The China Post, April 2, 2012
[33] Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland, United States Department of Homeland Security, 2011
[34] Africa: U.S. Military Holds War Games on Nigeria, Somalia, AllAfrica, August 14, 2009
[35] Ibid
[36] Ibid
[25] China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America's New Military Command, Centre for Research on Globalization, November 26, 2008

Nile Bowie is an independent writer and photojournalist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Twitter: @NileBowie
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i believe there is more to this story than is told, why did the mother live her daughter (NOT SON) in the custody of a strange man man (OPOSITE SEX)? what was she expecting to get? where is the father and why didnt he ask for his child? if for any stupid reason anybody can conjure up a reason to keep a daughter in custody of a strange man, why didnt she routinely and daily check on her well being?

I am not saying she is lying, but she is not telling the whole truth.

its total downstream.

U mean 4mill per anum or per month

any idea what the range of the net monthly takehome pay is ?(I had an expirience with a top bank where the CTC was 'wow', but after calculating my net monthly takrhome, there wasn't much to takehome afterall , the whole thing was made up of taxes and some ponzi scheme fiticios benefits)

I majored in finance btw.

Hello guys I have read a lot about the life and career saving advice people get here on this board. I am now asking all the house members to advice me on this dilemma of mine.
I did my medicals with total Nigeria plc hoping to get the offer letter soon, I also currently have a scholarship to study phd on management/finance in India . So I am confused, could I get advices and reasons behind the advice from you guys? I am waiting thanks in advances.

what amazes me is the speed and zeal the administration is showing to bungle faruk and by extension the committee report, yet we see no such zeal in the investigation of the oil theft when the initial report surfaced, neither have we seen such zeal with dana air crash ivestigation, BH bombings, mallabu scandal, pension scam e.t.c

but we see the sss throwing everything but the kitchen sink at faruk lawan: micro recording gadgets, video pen, call logs retrival and so on. why havent they deployed all this assets with similar verocity on other curruption cases? THIS GOVT IS A JOKE

what amazes me is the speed and zeal the administration is showing to bungle faruk and by extension the committee report, yet we see no such zeal in the investigation of the oil theft when the initial report surfaced, neither have we seen such zeal with dana air crash ivestigation, BH bombings, mallabu scandal, pension scam e.t.c

but we see the sss throwing everything but the kitchen sink at faruk lawan: micro recording gadgets, video pen, call logs retrival and so on. why havent they deployed all this assets with similar verocity on other curruption cases? THIS GOVT IS A JOKE