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pazienza:
To this effect, the three oil producing villages of Egbema town was carved out of East Central( Imo state) and added to Rivers state. The remaining 14 villages in Egbema town that were non oil producing then were left in East Central state. So you have a case of a single town now existing in two states just in a bid to make sure that no oil producing community was left in East Central.

The same happened to Ndoki and Asa lands, as the oil producing parts of this two Igbo speaking clans were carved out in 1976 by Mamman Nasir adjustment commission and put in the old Rivers state, while the majority of the non oil producing parts of Ndoki were left in the East Central state.

I agree that the Igbos might have lost some prospective land as a result of punitive action from the Nigerian state in the aftermath of the civil war (Hydrocarbon rich land for that matter), ESPECIALLY In Oyigbo and Egbema. But no further. Although East Central state and Rivers ate were both created before the civil war began, not After.

Obiagu1:
Check you facts well, like you said, no SugarCoatings, no pancaking, no disguises, no sweetalks.

check the Image above. ^^

pazienza:
Yes, I know, the Ikwerres were under PH division and the Ekpeyes were under Ahoada, but these groups were essentially Igbo speaking, and we're only separated from the rest of the Igbo nation because of crude oil politics. The East central Gowon created were made up of many Igbo speaking divisions as well.
Before PH division was created, Ikwerres and Etched were in Owerri division.
It was out of Owerri division that Aba and PH divisions were created for Ngwas and Ikwerres.

The 1970 division was crude oil directed.

PH and Ikwerre/Etches, together with the Ekpeyes have always been in the Ahoada division under Rivers
Asaba was also under Benin division, while Kwale was in Aboh division under Delta
Infact, it was the Ndokis who were a bone of contention between Rivers and Owerri divisions who were ceded to the latter.

https://s20.postimg.org/fvnfnk8a5/Screen_Shot_2015_11_02_at_2.jpg

pazienza:
"The war aim and (final) solution properly speaking of the entire problem, is to discriminate against the Igbos and in their own interest. Such discrimination would include above all the detachment of those oil-rich territories in the Eastern Region, in addition, the Igbos' freedom of movement would be restricted, to prevent their renewed penetration into other parts, leaving any access to the sea to the Igbos, is quite out of the question, "(Federal Nigerian Minister speaking to E. C. Schwarzenback, Swiss Review of Africa, February 1968)"

Wait, how can you say anyone is denying igbos access to sea, when Igbo territory as we know it doesn't really get to the sea?
Igbos are like Edos, part of their territory is really really close to the sea, but they don't quite get there.

https://s20.postimg.org/wju3hem0d/Screen_Shot_2015_11_03_at_10.jpg

pazienza:
What do you mean by clear Edo? Are you well atall?

Where did you see Edo there? Did the Edo invent the Coral bead?

There are no Edo influence there, just Anioma influence.

If you see any part there that resembles Edo, then know that it's Anioma influence on Edo, not the other way round.

look at that thing entirely made from corals worn by the men- Edo men use that, and the style in which the headgear worn by the women is made. clearly rings Edo.
I am not talking about the coral beads, but how they are being used.

pazienza:
What do you mean by old East Central and old Rivers.
Who created those? There were created in 1970 not in 1960.
And they were created by Gowon and co in such away to deny the Igbo hinterland of any oil producing Igbo communities.

Do you think oil production wells were already that well known at the time? Infact production from Oloibiri which was the country's first commercial oil well peaked in 1964. Even today, we are still adding more and more oil production sites. So if a huge field is discovered somewhere in Ogun in 2018, Ondo might suddenly cry foul and say the land used to be theirs? Even if it wasn't
What I was trying to say is that before these two states, most areas were already administered under divisions. Ikwerres, Ekpeyes, etc were under the Ahoada division, not under the Owerri/Imo division

pazienza:
Well, I guess if I did some boundary adjustments that would involve specially and carefully carving out the oil producing areas of Ondo into Delta state, and granting the Ilajes and the Arogbo/ apoi Ijaws minority status and distinct ethnicities in Delta state, as was done to the oil producing parts of Southern Igboland that ended up in Rivers state.

I guess we will have a different picture here, wouldn't we?

The boundaries between what used to be the Old East Central and Old Rivers states has largely remained the same since before Independence.

kettykin:
Anambra has started producing oil but Lagos is Still prospecting

Lagos is no more prospecting, Production is expected to begin this year from the Aje Oil field (In the Dahomey basin).
They are prospecting, FOR MORE.

[size=13pt]Lagos Set To Join Oil Producing States As Production Begins This Year[/size]

https://www.newafricanglobalenergy.com/images/NigeriaAjeWEB.jpg

Drilling has started on the Aje 5 production well in Aje field offshore Nigeria, paving the way for first oil on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel development.
The three-phase development, starting with two production wells, Aje 5 and a re-entry of Aje 4, will use Rubicon Offshore International's Front Puffin FPSO, which is currently being refurbished in Singapore.
The two Phase I development wells are being drilled using Saipem's Scarabeo 3 semisubmersible drilling rig, in about 300m water depth, with the first well due to take about 70 days before moving on to re-enter and complete the Aje 4 well.
According to partner MX Oil, the Phase 1 Aje development, in the OML 133 license, in the Dahomey Basin, close to the border with Benin, is targeting first oil in December 2015 and peak gross production of 41 API oil from Aje 5 and 4 is expected to reach 11,000 b/d. Phase 2 is targeting an increase in gross production to 19,000 b/d from an additional two-well development.
According to partner Panoro Energy, The Aje Field contains hydrocarbon resources in sandstone reservoirs in three main levels - a Turonian gas condensate reservoir, a Cenomanian oil reservoir and an Albian gas condensate reservoir.
Installation of the production manifold, flowlines, umbilicals and risers on the field is due to take place in Q4 2015. The 245.6m-long Front Puffin is fitted with a disconnectable submerged turret mooring system, which connects to the seabed via a submerged buoy and multiple leg mooring spread.
The vessel was built in 1990 and converted to a DP shuttle tanker in 1994 and then an FPSO in 2007, in order to work offshore north west Australia for Sea Production on blocks AC/P22. It has a tandem offtake mooring system and floating hose arrangement and facilities for gas lift compression for artificial lift.
Aje is operated by Nigerian firm Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum (YFP). The other partners are Jacka Resources, New Age, First Hydrocarbon Nigeria, and Energy Equity Resources.
Further exploration operations in the Dahomey basin offshore Western Nigeria are ongoing.

http://www.oilvoice.com/n/MX-Oil-commences-drilling-Aje-5-Well-in-offshore-Nigeria/7eded69d7c8d.aspx
https://idahosaejalen./2015/07/19/mx-oil-acquired-stakes-in-aje-field-offshore-nigeria/

If Production from Aje alone can reach 19,000 barrels per day as planned, then Lagos will displace Imo state into 8th largest oil producer and sit at 7th spot, from just one oilfield.
The Ogo field is even Larger.

Worthy of mention is that Lagos and Anambra (currently in dispute) might soon join the list of Oil producing states.

kettykin:
Ondo state became an oil producing state through rogue boundary adjustment perpetrated during the regime of olusegun obasanjo.
Niger delta should continue to play dumbness and stupidity.
The same obasanjo wanted to take gas from brass to OK lng until Jonathan miraculously stepped in to power.
This is the real reason why yorubas never forgave Jonathan.

Which rogue boundary adjustment is that? What were the ceded communities?
the boundary of Ondo state has remained the same since the days of the Old western region.
If anything , they should have allowed the Itsekiris of the three Warri LGA'S to vote to join the Western region as an hypothetical Warri state, or the Mid-West at its creation.

You people are shameless concoctionists who can lie for Africa.
You will stop at nothing in shoving your stupid agenda down everyone's throats.
In case you don't know, Nigeria's first oil was actually discovered in Ondo state in a place called Araromi, not Oloibiri in Bayelsa. (Although the first export came from Oloibiri)

Bitumen Corporation (a German company) was the first company to explore crude oil in Nigeria as far back as 1908 when traces of it was found at Araromi in the present Ondo state. This pioneering exploration was brief due to the World War 1 (1914 – 1918). But, in 1937 Shell started exploratory activities after been awarded the sole concession rights that covered the whole territory of Nigeria.

http://nigeriadaily..ca/2009/10/crude-oil-crisis-in-nigeria.html

So, tell me how the rubbish you posted above there is true, when Ondo has always been an old Oil producing state, and I suspect there is even more, though not on the same levels as the big players such as Akwa Ibom and Delta.

No SugarCoatings, No pancaking, No disguises, No sweetalks.
Here are raw data and statistics on Nigerian Oil Production.

https://s20.postimg.org/6rb8hw2jx/Screen_Shot_2015_11_02_at_11.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/v93c5s54d/400689_167750826725387_1884942381_n_1.jpg

Oil production Figures
National Production = 1,605,000 barrels per day (One Million, 605 Thousand barrels) as at timing of report.
Current Production hovers around 2.5-2.7 Million barrels per day

Total National Oil reserves 37.2 Billion Barrels
Producer ranks:

1 - Akwa Ibom
2 - Delta
3 - Rivers
4 - Bayelsa
5 - Ondo
6 - Edo
7 - Imo
8 - Abia

https://s20.postimg.org/6xoxkzbot/Screen_Shot_2015_11_02_at_12.jpg

How much does each Oil producing state obtain from the 13% derivation formula?

https://s20.postimg.org/47flnsezx/Screen_Shot_2015_11_02_at_11.jpg
Note: Cross River state's former oil wells have been ceded to Akwa Ibom after boundary adjustment. (Hence the blank)

Additional Liquid and Semi-liquid Hydrocarbon resources in Nigeria (Reserves)
Nigeria has 42 Billion barrels more of oil in the form of extractable Heavy Oils, from large bitumen belts lying dormant.
https://s20.postimg.org/rzowzbh0t/Screen_Shot_2015_11_02_at_11.jpg

Source: http://oilrevenueng.org/
http://oilrevenueng.org/previous-themes/

NRIPRIEST:
Here they come....when they can't impose Bini identity on Anioma people they call it Edo and Igbo....lol. ffucking troll. This is Anioma culture and they are sub group of the larger Igbo people. Don't bring your Edo nonsense here.

Silly thing Nripriest or what do you call yourself....
I am simply saying what I see from the pictures, I can see clear Edo and Clear Igbo influences on their attires.
take your insecurities elsewhere.

Kestolovee95:
60 million creative intelligent brains are already thinking. I fear for your zoo my friend.

60 Million where?
keep thinking .....

mofayodeyahoo:
Mumu, now you don begin to talk na yoruba biafra want fight?

U na don born born plenty again...
No wahala gowon never die, obasanjo still dey, buhari self no trust una

lol

cbrass:
Don't let the biafrans here this o

What is they hear? It is an indisputable fact. Look at the style of the blouse, something about t looks distinctly "unafrican", and that is because it came from Europe via the high-Seas.
Same thing can be said about a lot of the fabrics, such as the george wrapper which came from the Portuguese, The long sleeved shirt worm by the men called the "Kemeje" from the portuguese word 'Camisa', which is now worn throughout the Niger Delta, etc

October1960:
The weather and soil in Southern Nigeria is similar to Southern USA.

And yet roads built 50 years ago in the US are still excellent. Also the weather in US has more temperature extreme which puts more stress on the roads and yet the roads are good.

In a country like Nigeria where Most of the money is stolen before reaching the contractor. How can we get good roads.

Rainfall figures in most of Southern Nigeria exceeds that obtainable in the southern US states.

Abagworo:
Yes they are so because climate and sparse population favours the North. The Southeast is a choked up piece of wetland and resultant deforestation has led to disastrous erosions. Roads in the Southeast need frequent maintenance.

My anger remains the lies told by Igbos to misrepresent facts about Jonathan's negligence of Southeast and South South. I wish Buhari could even sideline them completely for their wickedness against themselves.

That right there.
There are virtually no natural forests left in the South East anymore. whereas the SW still has huge swathes of Ogun, Southern Osun and Ondo, also Edo state, that are purely forest. check Google maps.

basilo101:
We are talking abt federal roads here my frnd! I hv been around d con3, Anambra is one of d best in statewide road interconectivity. Note: i'm frm anambra

Okay sure....

In my own experience through, Roads in the North are the best in the country. Both on state and federal level.

2rutalk1:
If you use Federal Roads in the East, you will know their agitation for secession is justified. Igbos are totally neglected in this country. 95% of the Federal Roads in the South East are not motorable. Just an hour journey on any of the roads can make you sick.

Ironically, I was on another thread 2 days ago, where an Igbo man was boasting that roads in the South-East are the best in the country.
So which one should we believe?

The actual truth is that roads all over Nigeria are grossly neglected. The difference being that the SE roads are more naturally prone to weathering action .

Lilimax:
Are we saying the we've been scammed by the past administration

However, it look as if the soil type in the south East cannot with stand the type
of granite or whatever they use in road construction.
I may not be an expert in this field but most roads in the South east is an eye saw.

Why cant they explore the option of using interlocking stone....

South Eastern soils are naturally unstable clay.
at this point, I don't even know what the FG can do, because it looks like they would need to start building reinforced concrete foundations for roads in that area

CarnivalWoman:
Thank you Dike, your comment is a plus to our achievement this far, please continue to love us and do pray
for our success at this years edition even as the Economy bites hard. In God we trust Amen

Beautiful Edo and Igbo cultures.
Lalasticlala, Ejoor, this deserves to be on frontpage.

OduaVanguard:
According to the Biafrans (as pronounced by "Junior Moses" Elewon Kanu ), that makes them Biafrans.

The Itsekiris were the people who actually started the Blouse and two piece wrapper mode of dressing.
From them, it spread to other parts of the NIger Delta, and later, the East.

What do you want/plan to do, that Boko Haram hasn't done already x 10?
At the end of the day, it is cities like Aba and Onitsha that will bear most of the brunt of your actions, not "The Nigerian state"
So y'all better think with your God given brains.

meracool:
Good Morning Everyone
I've finally caught up with the thread
My hometown is Apa, Badagry Lagos State
We are of the Egun Awori extract...

Welcome bro, and good morning to you too.

Trash

ok

IlekeHD:
They just banned me.

For replying this post

Ori awon mod wonyii ti daru patapata.

Ilekeh:
O sope o wopo, sugbon mii ti ri won. Nibo ni won ko won si?

Biriki bi buloku ni mo so pe o wopo.
Sugbon biriki gan-gan, mo ti ri bi meji tabi meta ni agbegbe Eko.
Mo le fi aworan ile naa si ori itakun yii.

Ritchiee:
Se daada le de.Tuntun wo le mu wa fun wa lale yi?

E seun pupo, Ogbeni Ritchiee
Se gbogbo nkan n lo ni dede? E ku akitiyan ifowosowopo lori itakun yii.
Olorun a fun wa se. Aamin.

razid:
N le o. Se oko ko j'epo? Daadaa ni gbogbo ile wa. E ku asiko yi.

Oko ti fere je gbogbo epo inu moto mi tan o.... hahaha
Ese pupo, Eyin naa, E ku gbogbo igbadun asiko yii. Asiko opin odun.
Ki Olorun ma fi iso re so wa.