₦airaland Forum

alpontif:
1000 Gbosaas for this statement!..totally true.

Seriously it baffles me How these ND people dont Know that the best way to win in this century is through Diplomacy, Knowing the game, playing the game. Violence or the threat of violence only goes to show that they are all clueless idiots who think Brawn is Mightier than brains. These Guys should just calm down, get educated, stop looking for handouts, enter strategic levels of oil and gas business, create peaceful( not extortive) business environments in the delta. That is the only way to prevent Coys moving away from that area.

Sagamite:
You are a cretinous fuuktard!

This is how cretins like you that form the majority of Nigerians only see things through your tribal prism like the pure cretins you are.

When you are a product of a failed education system, of course the only thing you can attribute most things to is "my tribe".

Cretin!

agabusta:
So u want the business owners to limit the attention of their business to only the oil and gas sector in the Niger Delta abi. What will happen in the future if shipping crude and gas is no longer a viable business.

You guys should stop all this sentimentalism. These people are thorough business people who wants to invest in the billion dollar range. They have done their studies well and concluded the project will be more viable in Lagos. It will be highly counter productive to try and arm twist them.

Are u forgetting that it is only South Africa that has such a big ship yard in Africa. Which means the whole West Africa shipping lanes may resort to using this yard for their repairs and servicing.

Shipping business is not all about oil and gas. Shipping business has been thriving before oil came and will continue to thrive even after oil.

Lagos has been the most viable business hub decades before crude oil came and sorry, it will continue like that.

agabusta:
Where does it rightly belong?? The most active port in Nigeria are the Lagos ports.

Any sensible business person who wants to build a yard where ships will be serviced and repaired will automatically consider Lagos before any other place. It is a strategic business decision and not mundane ethnic sentimentalism.

Investors consider many things before siting their projects in an area of choice. The govt can only advise them to consider relocating it. They can't force them. And if they do, it will affect foreign investor inflows into the country.

Chiaka:
Those are political talks. The project should move rightly to where it ought to be. Enough of all these....

AZeD1:
The reason is very simple, they are tired of the threats.
The Niger delta as a region is not investment friendly same as the north east of Nigeria.

onenaira3:
Hmmm I knew a Yoruba must have a hand in this new development. They have since been trying to bring NLNG back ever since they moved their headquarters from Lagos back to rivers. Hmm.

I hope the youths in that meeting think twice in what they are doing. NLNG have been one of the good guys. They understand the plight of SS individuals therefore, I'm sure if they went and spoke to am in a calm voice rather that threaten like they doing now NLNG will very likely listen to them. Right now, their threats would present the opposite result.

DaGC:
Its funny though that many of the oil agencies are headquartered outside the Niger Delta. We even have a refinery in Kaduna. If the NLNG has been a private ish, I won't complain. But a government agency taking its shipyard away from its base of operations is weird to me.

sentaljohn:
we need a permanent solution to this triibal issues... and am not suggestion separation.. infact, am against it, we are strong as one.. God help us

N’Delta youths threaten NLNG over plan to build shipyard outside Rivers


NIGER Delta youths have threatened to stage a massive protest and possibly shut down facilities of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG), if the company fails to reverse its decision to build dry-dock shipyard outside its operational base in Rivers State. Over 30 youth leaders handed in the threat yesterday in Port Harcourt while briefing journalists on the developments.

Some of the youth organizations include, the National Youths Council of Nigeria, Rivers State chapter, Ijaw Youths Council, Bonny Youths Federation, Niger Delta People Volunteer and Salvation Front, Rivers Ethnic Youth Leaders Coalition among others. Speaking under the aegis of Niger Delta Youth Organizations, the spokesman of the group, Simeon Wilcox said, “the youths would shutdown NLNG facilities if all peaceful modalities failed to convince the company to reverse the decision to build its shipyard outside the region.”

Wilcox disclosed that the youths were particularly grieved on the fact that NLNG decided against all odds to construct a dry-dock shipyard worth $1.5 billion dollars in an area outside its operational base in Niger Delta. “The NLNG did a kangaroo feasibility study without the knowledge of the stakeholders from Rivers State and Niger Delta at large,” the spokesman said.

He said such decision taken by NLNG was seen as a clear case of insensitive and provocative corporate plan, adding that the company has failed to consider the high unemployment rate in the Niger Delta region, especially in Bonny Kingdom. Wilcox said, “We are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Nyesom Wike and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to intervene on this all important matter in order to avert a serious anarchy.

“We are going to shutdown the NLNG facilities if the company fails to do the needful, the youths of Rivers State and that of Niger Delta would be mobilize to protest across every NLNG operational community until the company consider the interest of the region.”
N’Delta youths threaten NLNG over plan to build shipyard outside Rivers.

RichDad1:
MKO Abiola ; The President Nigerians want but never had.

Poster above me, wariss dis?

ceejay80s:
Guy u too think well, who uses 5 atm cards or how many common man get 3 bank acct talkless of 5 and why all at the same time at 12 midnight? Wetin u wan take 500k do for 12 midnight ? Use ur brain abeg

Nicepoker:
. Using 5 cards. Guy have u witnessed such urself?