₦airaland Forum

den y do dey all support hezbollah?

president of iran said it

nilla d arabs dont want 2 play fair. dey want 2 kill all jews.

walaty, i used 2 b on d side of people who said d oil companies r not doing enuff until i joined spdc . i am now privy 2 facts & figures & have seen dat dis whole thing is about greed. every party here is greedy from d govt down 2 d militants. what finallybutressed dat thinking is dat my class went 4 a field trip and militants surrounded us,but let us go when dey saw dat dere was no whitey with us. if dey were interested in freedom, dey would have taken us, abi dont u agree?

oil is also present in edo state. dis is from my class notes:

d niger delta (including edo state) has 356 oil fields. (23 have been abandonded as dried up)
251 of nigeria's oil fields (d biggest ones) r offshore.
there r 24 oil wells in d lake chad basin
1 oil well in anambra
1 in benue

so it is not only us dat have oil. or do u think nobody is searching for more oil in d places i have shown?

do u think dat if d FG just wakes up & hands over d control of d oil to us we will be better off?

stop dreaming.

STATE Security Service (SSS) operatives in Delta State are now on the trail of a Warri-based female socialite said to be a sponsor of militants operating in the Niger-Delta region just as about 300 militants have either fled the region or gone into hiding since the SSS and the Joint Military Task Force (JMTF) in the Niger-Delta commenced separate but synchronized manhunt for them about a fortnight ago.


Sunday Vanguard reliably gathered that the female financier, said to be a younger sister of a commissioner in one of the South-South states and woman friend to one of arrowheads of the Niger-Delta struggle, escaped from her Warri abode, last week.


Investigations by Sunday Vanguard showed that the widespread search for militants and audacious incursions into the once deified hideouts of the various gangs that specialized in the kidnapping of foreign oil workers for ransom in Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states by security operatives made the woman to flee.

She was said to have recently given out N1 million to some militants for an undisclosed project before security operatives got to her deserted residence.
Last Wednesday in Warri, men of the SSS also ransacked the house of an Ijaw leader suspected to be involved in oil bunkering.

A security source, who disclosed this to Sunday Vanguard, asserted that “because the SSS has a list containing the names and addresses of the militants, the boys felt the game was up and took to their heels when they saw the dexterous manner the leader and some members of one of the feared kidnap gangs, including a government official that facilitated payment of ransom to militants, were picked up after they were lured to Asaba”.

Investigations by Sunday Vanguard showed that the region witnessed a respite in the last two weeks with no reported case of kidnap unlike the preceding two weeks during which an average of one person was kidnapped every two days.
Flight to London

Sunday Vanguard learnt that one of the kingpins who made good money from the business fled to London when the heat from the security agents on his trail became too hot. He was shocked by the dossier on him and in, collaboration with his partners-in-crime, a decision was taken for him to escape because so many things would happen if he was caught and forced to spill the beans.

Many others were said to have traveled. It is believed that their plan was to see how the security agents would sustain the present crackdown on militants. But security sources said the plan was not to give them a breathing space but flush out kidnappers, particularly moneymaking hostage takers’ from the region.

Some of them fled leaving their vehicles and girlfriends and just a week or more outside their traditional home ground, a number of them were said to be feeling like fishes out of water in their new abodes.

Case files opened on government accomplices

Sunday Vanguard gathered that case files had been opened on the alleged role of some elected and appointed government officials in the kidnap business in the region. Security agents decided to investigate them following what a source described as revelations by some of the kidnappers already in custody on how they abetted and aided the business. It is a poignant blow to most of them who were feeding fat on the pay-offs from some of the state governments but they were also understood to be doing everything possible to cover their tracks, including lobbying and pressing button to stop their being invited for questioning in connection with kidnap.

Our source, a top security officer in the region, said: “If these politicians and government officials make the mistake of getting involved in any kidnap case again, we will pick them up and tell them that we have dossier on all they have been doing since. It is because they get involved in the past by collecting money from governors for these boys that the criminal act became a lucrative business for them”.
The intelligence reports on the affected persons have reportedly been forwarded to Abuja and the directive is that all the suspected accomplices be put on surveillance.
How the kidnap “industry” was paralyzed

“For those who don’t know, even if they are wont to deny it, this kidnap thing is masterminded mainly by some Ijaw youths and the network of their communities along the coast of the states in the Niger-Delta is wonderful but Delta State is no doubt the tactical headquarters, while Rivers State is the cash cow followed by Bayelsa State. Edo, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River and Ondo states are not so much in the reckoning of the militants business wise. It took us time but when we found out that the kidnappers in most of the cases took off from Delta State, we decided to pick them up, and as we did that, we were able to send panic into the various syndicates. And because the leaders who do the conceptualization and planning from Delta State are on the run, the boys who execute the drawn-out programme in Rivers and Bayelsa states for instance have been left without shepherds”, an informed source hinted. However, the spokesman of the Ijaw Youth Council, Mr. Peter Ajube, in an interview denied that hostage taking and vandalization of oil facilities in the region were the handiwork of Ijaw youths. He said that criminal elements had infiltrated the struggle and cashed-in on the crisis to make money.

Ijaw happy with the clean up

Clearly, there is a difference between those kidnapping for the struggle and those kidnapping for money but, in all, kidnapping for whatever reason is wrong and it’s a criminal offence. However, if one were to gauge the mood of the Ijaw nation on the crackdown by security agents on kidnappers, the truth, according to the national president of the Federated Niger-Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC), an influential Ijaw body, Chief (Dr) Bello Oboko, was that the Ijaw nationality is happy with the move by security agents to get rid of commercial kidnappers.

Oboko told Sunday Vanguard in Warri, last Wednesday, that it was because the Ijaw nation was not happy with the activities of commercial kidnappers that the FNDIC was mandated by Ijaw leaders at a meeting in Bayelsa State on Thursday, August 17 to proceed to Letugbene in Bayelsa State to rescue the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) worker, Comrade Nelson Ujeya, now deceased, that was kidnapped by Letugbene youths on August 8.

He said it was unfortunate that the boys who went for the rescue mission were shot dead by men of the Joint Military Task Force (JMTF) in the Niger-Delta, August 20, on their way back with the hostage.

The FNDIC leader said that before the Letugbene case, the group had had cause to disown the moneymaking hostage takers in Rivers and Bayelsa states, saying: “In reality, the struggle is not to take foreigners hostage and make money from it, our struggle is to draw government attention, whether federal, state or local to the underdevelopment in the region, particularly Ijaw land, and enjoin them to develop the areas since oil exploration and exploitation activities have degraded our environment and deprived our people of their means of survival”.

Oboko said that it was the same way FNDIC intervened when the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) kidnapped nine expatriate oil workers in Delta State purportedly as human shields and bombed oil installations following the bombardment of some Ijaw villages by the JMTF, some months ago, that it intervened in the Letugbene case only for its peace emissaries to be killed.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/cover/september06/10092006/f210092006.html

see what i have been saying since? it is money dey r after. let me get back to work.

basil omiyi is d mdof spdc. where does he come from?

TayoD:
I never said muslims are wrong-doers for following that religion. All I said is that the religion promotes violence in this day and age and is highly intolerant.
So have you had someone teach you the Qu'ran for you to conclude that my conclusions are wrong?
Of course it is evil for advocating violence. Imagine the world today if Islam encourages turning the other cheek as the Bible teaches and encourages.
Maybe you need to do some reading up yourself about Muhammad. He was a war-monger who encouraged even the raping of women in war. His hands were soiled in other people's blood and he happens to be the role model for a billion plus people today.
I just think you are not following my argument or rather, you have failed to see my reasoning. To understand what Christianity teaches, look at Christ, not Christians. To understand what Islam teaches, look at Muhammad, not the terrorists, nor the clerics. You have rightly pointed out "if Christinas were following Jesus' example", but tell me, what example did Muhammad show to his billion plus followers today?
All the Isrealites did were in the name of their king, not necessarily their God. They were a Theocratic State. I hope you will and are able to understand the differences.
I'm not overlooking the so-called U.S involvement. The U.S. is involved in every country on this planet. The average Briton feels like their country is now the 51st State of the Union. How many of them are blowing themselves up to protest this? Except some of the muslims among them who have been indoctrinated into Islam and are now blowing up the country that providesd them with welfare and a voice they would otherwise not have in the Arab countries.

You need to ask yourself a honest question. Why is it that the fertile recruiting ground for Osama and his guys is the mosque? Why don't they go to the Church to recruit?

ride on broda!

d way forward? disband d militant groups. dey r doing more harm dan good & r very greedy.

and odili dat dey r talking about here is a rivers man, a true niger deltan.

my eyes r wide open boy.it is urs dat r shut. u know senior oil workers r going on strike? is dis how ur militants want sympathy? by kiling people like m. udeya?

Oil workers on Sunday began a gradual shutdown of strategic installations in the Niger Delta, ahead of a three-day warning strike.
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Group Managing Director, NNPC, Biodun Kupolokun

The workers, through their umbrella bodies – Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers – had last week threatened to embark on a strike from Wednesday.

Findings by our correspondents revealed that the leaders of the two unions besieged major oil facilities in the region on Sunday afternoon to supervise their closure in compliance with the directive of their leaders.

The action of the oil workers came on the heels of the revelation that the leaders of PENGASSAN and NUPENG were under pressure by the Federal Government and its agencies to back down on the strike.

The National President of NUPENG, Mr. Peter Akpatason, in a telephone interview with our correspondents on Sunday evening, confirmed that members of the union had been directed to embark on a gradual shutdown of oil equipment in readiness for the strike.

Akpatason said the strike was irreversible.

A joint National Executive Committee meeting of the two unions in Benin on August 30, ordered the strike as a result of the deplorable security situation in the Niger Delta, which climaxed in the killing of an oil worker, Mr. Nelson Ujeya, on August 20.

The unions threatened to withdraw their services indefinitely if the government could not provide peaceful and safe environment in the region at the end of the warning strike.

However, our correspondents gathered that some installations, belonging to oil multinationals and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in the region, had been locked as at 5pm on Sunday.

A top official of NUPENG in Warri, who spoke with our correspondents, said the action took place simultaneously in all oil facilities in the Niger Delta.

Akpatason, in the telephone interview with our correspondents, said the action was to ensure “a safe shutdown.

“We have directed our members to embark on a gradual shutdown of the oil facilities because it is going to be a total strike; it may not be out of place for them to start now to ensure safe reactivation later,” he said.

make dem rack jo

he wont win chxta & we all know it. d winner is already known in aso rock. i saw what u wrote. that is d only part of the article i don't agree with

afam uve never argued with a muslim b4. if u have u wont be here. didnt u hear what happened in ife?

utomi is wasting time and money. bad advisers

yes, i am saying we should hold our leaders responsible because dey sold us out. as per d deve and school thing, na small water dey make ocean

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and dont take it dat i hate igbo peeps. some of my closest friends r igbo, but dis is annoying.

they are lazy

tayod, dis land was given to d isrelites by God. dat is d end of d story.

ono, we cant fashion a common front wen our people r willing to accept greedy leaders who dont have our interests at heart. it is not possible. our peopel dont go to school again. they r interested in deve and other shotcuts to gettng rich & it doesnt work dat way. how do u expect us to stand wen our so called leaders will prefer to build high fences and send their children abroad. which delta leader has done any serious investment in delta?
owo i wont even argue with u about were i come from. it is peeps like u dat said chxta is not ibo because he said the truth about igbo people. u r very stupid. i live and work in d place i was born and i have said dat b4. who funded d niger delta crisis? hausa? yoruba? igbo? abi we ourselves. d guns dat were used in the warri wahala was imported by warri people not any other person. am not going to waste time on you. yeye.

correct olalekan we dont know how 2 identify our interests

all those naija living abroad and making arm chair noises (chxta & nutter) dis is directed at u.

http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=909&magazine=86

if there is any oyinbo thief it is is george bush. true d sit tight thing is not african. chirac has been dere 4ever.

who hates what? i was born abd brought up in warri and my fathers house was burnt because he is itsekiri by okumagba layout boys. we ar fighting ourselves and den we go yarn dust aftre

nigeria has 5.66% unemployment. germany has 6.2%. so how is it not a global problem?