₦airaland Forum

Saraki is just wasting his time.

His days are numbered.

He can only run from the hands of law, he can.never hide.

1,000 Samules of his cannot run from God.

These same people will still carry their bags and go to mosque on Fridays and church on sundays.

These are parents of somebody.

Nigeria, Nigerians and hypocrisy.

These people just love courting trouble anywhere and everywhere they find themselves.

Nkiru.com ko nkita.com ni.

"Chickens" of a feather flock together!!!!

xtroppy:
Neanderthal savage of dirt, squalor, anger, hate, slavery and propaganda, taking you to the mountain for 40 days exorcism and maximum flogging is insufficient to cure your eternal stupid1ty!

ignore the homo habilis.

How can Ukraine that is a war and that does not even have weapons weapons to prosecute the war, sell weapons to anybody.

xtroppy:
Here comes the frustrated disciple of anger, slavery, hate and propaganda, displaying foolery and flaunting it as knowledge...

Son of perdition, receive sense IJN.

#IStandWithPMBOnCorruption

xtroppy:
Pre-colonial, pre-independence or not, self-determination is an inalienable right of a people.

Igbos are comfortable having a separate existence.

Here cometh the son of bitterness again.

Inalienable right ko Martian right ni.

zendy:
Of course. How will a Governor who is enjoying power in Nigeria openly support Biafra? Not possible. It is laughable how Okowa called Anioma and SE 'ethnic nationalities' even though these words did not exist 30 years ago. Ifeanyi Okowa, the Midwest,SE,SS,Bendel, Delta state were all things that were created after independence. what was the name of your ancestors before Nigeria was created? The man is just talking nonsense. That is if Ifeanyi Okowa actually said any of these things as we all know what the Yoruba media are capable of.

If you are looking at pre-indepedence, the whole of Delta , Edo plus Asaba was under the Western Region with the capital in Ibadan

Dee60:
Nigerian banks pay the highest.

A manager in GTB earns 5 times what his counterpart earns in some of these places listed here.

Which GTBank?

GTBank of Segun or GTBank Of Tayo. Abeg remove GTBank from your list.

The militants should better head to ISIS for their own training.

Start the action and let the hell fire rain sky lightening pebbles on your head without mercy.

politricks:
Abeg they should announce it so that we would know what to expect or do you want us to wake and find that Russia has seized our money the way South africa did.

Announcing it is a warning to enemies and would -be enemies of the state within and without.

It also give the citizens the opportunity to ask questions later if we cannot see anything bought with the released funds.

Weaponization of NA in full scale commencing.

Militants bring it on and the rain will fall heavily.

RIPs in advance to the would be troublemakers, terrorists, militants and harbourers of criminals.

Dear Militants,

Please do not desist from blowing up the pipeline. The aftermath of your action are the following :

1. The pollution resorting from the blowing up o the pipelines will be on your land and air.

2. The resultant full military action will be on your soil. Any Community that condones criminality will be wiped out. Cry us holy water of "genocide" from.now till the kingdom come, the world will turn a blind eyes to it, because you will be labelled terrorists and not militants.

3. I keep hearing of Nigeria's income dwindling. I dey laff. This is Govt. Worst case scenario Govt will increase everybody's tax even for you to sleep peacefully in the cemetery you will pay. The higher the tax payment per state, the more the allocation to that state. Having escalated the security situation in your region, that means next to nothing income will be derive from that region and next to nothing income will go to the state in question and the people that are used to cheap funds with loud lifestyle will suffer most. Get that straight. Others states have options to harness, states of militants and militancy do not have that luxury.

4. PMB is not the Clueless and liverless GEJ, the Mandela of Otuoke that could not complete the East West Road started by OBJ, the Drunken Master of Otuoke that could not even ensure potable water gets to Otuoke, PMB's treatment of your case will be worse than that of Zakyzaky. If he could treat a Northerner and fellow.muslim and a reverred Islamic cleric like a common criminal, yours will be worse. I can.assure you every Kingdom or town where such criminality is the order of the day, will be wiped off the surface of the earth.

5. The elders of criminals should call their brigands of a son to order before they bring full scale calamity, woes and terror on the guilty and innocent.

Your criminality has been condoned for long, you have been pampered with amnesty and now you will pay for consequences of your action in full measures. No matter the weapons you have, you can never be as kitted up as the military, no matter the war chest that you have, you can never have the resources FG has stocked up as reserves alone and which it can.use to obliterate the tiniest troublesome village in a part of Nigeria, off the surface of the map.

A word is enough for both the foolish and the wise. Talking is over, let the action begin if they are up to and let us see who blinks first.

IF the militants who sabotaged crude and gas pipelines in Delta State thought that by their action, they would succeed in brow-beating the Federal Government into bargaining amnesty with them and awarding them contracts for protection of pipelines in the region, then they seriously misfired.

According to a militant leader, “General” Levi (not real name), whose group claimed responsibility for the attacks that led to the shutdown of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries, they would not drop their arms until the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, “meets and negotiates” with them.

Apparently convinced that the damage in the face of dwindling oil price and crash of the Naira might force government to parley with the group, “General” Levi asserted, “We are ready to commence discussion and denounce association with this present situation. Henceforth, we are ready to block any channel for anyone not to go through to bomb oil pipelines.”

Bombshell

However, the reaction from President Muhammadu Buhari, a week after the explosions that destroyed the Escravos-Warri-Lagos-Abuja gas pipelines and other oil facilities in Warri South-west and Warri north local government areas of Delta State from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, UAE, jolted the militants.

Rather than plead for their understanding with his government, Buhari, during a meeting with the Nigerian community in UAE, vowed to deal with oil thieves, abductors and vandals of oil and gas pipelines.

It was not a story time for the President, who is ruing the attack that is costing the economy a daily loss of N470 million besides the closure of the refineries.

Recalling how the armed forces had dealt “deadly blows” on Boko Haram insurgents to re-launch the country on safety path, he declared, “The oil thieves and abductors are a less problematic target. We will re-organize and deal with them.”

Confusion

Buhari’s tough mien actually staggered the militants, who held a secret meeting shortly after the January 14-16 attacks to review their exploit. Unknown to them, they had just given Buhari, who, all along, had been trying to be cautious about his actions/inactions on the unpredictable Niger Delta cannon fodder to unleash his “war” plan. A source said the reaction of the Federal Government threw the militants into disarray, as what they planned was not what they got.

A source said they might likely go back to the drawing board to plot their next move. But the dust their cunning strikes left is rumbling everywhere in the oil rich region.



Huge loss

A source told Sunday Vanguard, “Because of the strategic importance of Niger Delta to the nation, the Federal Government did not want to do anything that will provoke tension in the region and give people the excuse to blow up oil pipelines. But they have caused it themselves; so they should take anything that comes out of it.”

“You can see that Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries have been shut down because of crude supply challenges arising from recent attacks on vital crude oil pipelines. The NNPC shut the plants simultaneously penultimate Sunday after the Bonny –Okirika crude supply line to the Port Harcourt refinery and the Escravos-Warri crude supply line to the Kaduna refinery suffered breaches.”

The NNPC, in a statement by its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, said the corporation shut the plants, simultaneously, on Sunday, after the Bonny-Okrika crude supply line to the Port Harcourt refinery, and the Escravos-Warri crude supply line to the Kaduna refinery suffered breaches.

It stated that before the closure, the Port Harcourt refinery was recording a daily petrol yield of over 4.1 million litres, while the Kaduna refinery was posting a daily petrol production of about 1.3 million litres.

According to the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, the vandalism of the gas pipelines would affect negatively the Olorunsogo National Integrated Power Project plant, which has the capacity to supply 600 megawatts of electricity, and other power plants across the country.

The Special Adviser on Media to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Hakeem Bello, disclosed in a statement on Wednesday, that although security agencies had intensified the search for those behind the attack on the pipeline, their action would slow down the country’s power supply system.

Bello stated, “The sabotaged gas pipeline, which contributes to the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System, has led to a loss of 160mmsfcd of gas daily. At a cost of $2.50 per thousand scf, this loss means about $400,000 loss to the country on a daily basis (N78.8m) in gas volume.”



No more tea party – Defense Minister

The Minister of Defense, Brigadier-General Monsur Mohammed-Dan-Ali (retd.), who stopped over in Warri, on Tuesday, for an on-the-spot assessment of the blown-up pipelines, gave a clear indication that the Federal Government was not going to huddle with criminals.

Even as residents of the various Delta State riverside communities lived in fear following the heavy deployment by the military, he directed the JTF Commander, Major General Alani Okunola, and his men to fish out the bombers.

“I came here to intensify assistance to the armed forces and provide them with the equipment that will help them to bring down these criminals. This was an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion”, the Minister stated.

“I believe it was well arranged and well planned. You can see the magnitude of the explosion. I believe this will be taken care of by members of our armed forces. We have intensified patrol. We are still looking for them and the Joint Task Force (JTF) Commander has assured me that they will get to the root of it.”

In his entourage were the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ite Ikwe Ibas; the Flag Officer Commanding, Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Apochi Suleiman, the JTF Commander, Major General Okunmola, Commander, 2 Battalion, Lt. Col Omoke Igwe Patrick, and Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship, NNS Delta, Commodore Raimi Mohammed.



Terrorism, no more pipeline vandalism —CNS

Speaking on Wednesday in Abuja and apparently re-echoing Buhari’s new “war” plan, the Chief of Naval Staff, Ibas, said, henceforth, the Nigerian Navy would treat such infraction as terrorist attack, rather than mere pipeline vandalism.

Describing the bomb blasts as unfortunate, the CNS, who delivered a lecture to Course 24 participants at the National Defence College, entitled, ‘Nigerian Navy: Challenges and Future Perspectives,’ noted that the Navy was not taking the sabotage nonchalantly because the act was capable of undermining the Navy’s recent push in sanitizing the nation’s maritime sector.

His words, “The incident that just happened recently is rather unfortunate and of course that cannot be taken lightly by any serious nation and of course the Nigerian Navy is not going to take it lightly as well.

“We have made it clear that it goes beyond just mere vandalism for the purpose of making any gains; this is absolute sabotage, something that can even be termed terrorism.

“If the guys were doing that to derive benefit from the destruction then one will say it is vandalism, but that is not the case”.



New order, fresh fears

A military source told Sunday Vanguard, at the weekend. “President Buhari has directed the Minister of Defense on what to do. When he said the militants who blew up the pipelines were less problematic than Boko Haram, the President has intelligence information at his disposal and, I tell you, it is just to re-organize as he said, they will be taken care of.”

“Some persons have been compromised before now because they know the militants and they parley with them. I am not supposed to tell you the changes that will be made, but you will see them with your eyes soon.”

Meanwhile, investigations showed that the JTF had been given an unambiguous order to stop at nothing to fish out the perpetrators of the attacks on the crude and gas pipelines in the Delta State and the Federal Government was prepared to provide more logistics. The threat by the JTF Commander that the task force would hold community leaders responsible for any future attacks in their areas had also raised the heartbeat of the people. Indeed, the fear of what it portends is what has made many riverside dwellers to flee their communities in the last one week.



Uncertainty

Ijaw leaders and groups, who suspect that some persons were trying to get at a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, with the current development, have urged the military to be cautious so as not to exacerbate the already complicated state of affairs. However, normalcy has returned after the three-day bombings, especially when the task force took commanding control of some major entry and exit routes in the creeks of Warri, last Sunday, but the next line of action is like two peas in a pod.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/militants-failed-plot-to-arm-twist-buhari/

It is only the economy saboteurs that pride themselves in importation of sub-standard goods from China that are complaining about CBN policies that is meant to benefit the local manufacturers.

The economic saboteurs keep the Chinese population in employment while screaming blue murder with the level of unemployment in Nigeria, not recognising the harm they are doing to the nation.

One more destruction of any pipeline in Gbaramatu Kingdom will lead to obliteration of that Kingdom from.the surface of planet earth, without any form of restraint or fear of cry of genocide or ICC.

That is a fact.

The earlier the better you roll call the criminal elements and also warn your sons and daughters that might want to be economy saboteurs.

Sabotage and Treason are crimes that carry the same gravity and penalty.


NA ain't smiling at the moment.

Eagerly awaiting the exposè

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neocortex:
It seems you know very little about north korea,
it is a dynasty which has neither opposition nor
changes its government.

Now tell me how Buhari an opposition will ever get
into government in the first place, let alone prosecute
those he claim to be corrupt.

In North korea there is no such thing as "corrupt",
you are either in the government's favor or you are
an enemy of the state.

Any citizen of North korea who accuses the worker
party of being corrupt risk being executed or a lifetime
in jail.

You are obviously being misled, kindly research for
yourself.

See Mr. Lecturer telling me about North Korea!!!.

For your info, the only person allowed to be corrupt without any repercussion is their big fat baby president.

Read up.

neocortex:
If Dasuki was in North Korea , he will still be in power,
Buhari, Tinubu and his ilk will be in concentration camp.
Get that ?

Maybe you are talking of Corrupt Korea and not North Korea.


Get that into your head.

Someone should remind him that Nigeria is Ecowas.

I wish Dasuki was in North Korea, he would have been fed to the lions or killed by using RPG.

Chanchit:
No o, Lagos is a no mans land

Lol.

When they have liver to form No Mqn's Land Group, Lagos will pull out of Odu'a Group to join the No Man's Land Group.

For now let Lagos be rocking the Odu’a Group.

victorels:
What are the sources of the News.

Included.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday expressed joy and enthusiasm on the admission of the state as the sixth member of the Odu’a Group.

Ambode, in a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Steve Ayorinde, described it as a major landmark in the effort of the South-Western states of Nigeria toward regional integration.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the decision to admit the state to Odu’a Group was taken at the end of a meeting of the five governors of Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Osun and Ekiti States in Ibadan on Tuesday.

Ambode said he believed that the drive toward regionally integrating the region could not be effectively pursued if all the states in the region did not combine their resources and maximise their comparative advantages.

According to him, this will help to build a strong regional infrastructural and social link amongst the states.



“Lagos joining the Odu’a Group is a priority for this administration,” he said.

According to him, the state, with its huge population and vibrant economic base, is uniquely placed to contribute to the development and growth of the Odu’a Investment Company Limited.

He said that the state was poised to contribute to the investment arm of the group and the integration of the region.

The governor expressed his gratitude to the group for the decision and looked forward to his government working with other states toward the betterment and development of the region and its people.

Sources: PT, Punch, The Nation et al.

....... and some people will be complaining when investments keep finding their way to only to SW.

TonyeBarcanista:
Aisha is common but Aisha Buhari is not.

A simple search of Facebook will show countless Aisha Buhari.

I will take this nonsense serious when they can differentiate which of the numerous Aisha Buharis they are referring to.

Common sense is a luxury in the land of gully erosion.

OP you are part of the very few that are blessed with it.

State of residence ko state of residence ni.


Capital NO to state of residence.

You are one in a million.

A rare Igbo man that is devoid of the usual and well known characteristics of other igbos.

We have told the ignoramuses severally that National Security outweighs human right or human left.

That is the reason why Belgium can lock down the whole country for 3days and no one can sue the government.

Some wailers, ipods, PDP e-morons etc should educate themselves more rather than just wailing in.the name of trying to look like opposition.

In case some people have forgotten, Mr. VP is a Professor of Law and the wailers had better be more grounded in the law matters than they are now.