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so what is shell and Nigeria goverment doing about it? I think there is fire on the mountain


Shell’s subsidiary in Nigeria says the oil giant is losing 10,000 barrels of oil a day to thieves in the West African nation – at a cost of $560,000 (£452,000) a day.

The losses by vandals attacking oil pipelines in the southern Niger Delta are equivalent to $204.4m over a year.

The announcement was made by Igo Weli, general manager of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), which is a joint venture between Shell and the Nigerian government.

“These attacks were on critical assets that produce the crude oil, which accounts for over 90% of Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings and the bulk of government revenue,” Mr Weli is quoted as telling a workshop on pipeline vandalism in the oil city of Port Harcourt on Monday.

Since 2012 he said the company had discovered and removed 1,160 points where thieves were stealing the oil.


But this did not seem to be stemming the problem as 9,000 barrels a day were being stolen in 2017, 11,000 last year and 10,000 this year.

Mr Weli was also critical of a lack of development in the Niger Delta, where most people remain poor despite the vast wetlands rich oil resources.

“There is a community in the Niger Delta that has received over 2bn naira ($5.5m, £4.5m) from SPDC joint venture for its development, but is yet to develop,” the Premium Times quotes him as saying.

“The region receives 13% derivation, revenue from NDDC [the Niger Delta Development Commission government agency] and funds from companies, but still has not developed,” he said.

“The Niger Delta has refused to develop despite the huge monies allocated to the area. So, we need to ask ourselves the critical questions to change the Niger Delta narratives.”

Source: 3news.com

samorobo:
No vaxx you are wrong .it's from last year..just locate the date on This screenshot

not true. from Ghana Goverment itself. the date is below.

theenchanter:
it was last year.

Lie small small.

No it was 2017. and that of Ghana selling up his security is complete hoax too

samorobo:
Does this not have to do with the news last year about US buying your state security for $20million ..just asking

whoever feed you such lie. that trainning is two years old.

theenchanter:
see this one, keep changing my post as much as u can. I want us to take it to d military thread and see my ass whooped. I don't want to go into rounds of argument with u cos i am good at it. I rather let d military guys kick my butt if u're ready for it, say "aye:

By d way... where's d result u promised to show me?

noted.

theenchanter:
what's wrong with this one? Does everyone gets information from youtube videos? Is this one trying to make mountain out of molehill?

Oga, i hear u...n if u want us to persist on this issue, i suggest we take it to d military thread n see my ass whooped.

noted....

theenchanter:
i didnt bother to watch d video since i know what u're talking about and also a waste of data.

What is ringing ur bell is that "ghana trains US army" which i tell u its not as it sound. Its ur jungle and ur warfare centre, u know every nook and cranny of d jungle... thats d reason why they tell u u trainned them in d jungle while ur job over there is just like a guard.

Its a trainning, dude.... an annual trainnig which the US partook. U can dance to d soothing words of d outgoing ambassador, they're known for that.

Then why do I bother to correct what seems is impossible. you never watched the video yet you called it a joint exercise, your knolwedge about the whole thing is simply home cooked. how ignorant can you be? well, i am used to this kind of conversation. jungle does not belong to anyone.it takes more than just a diplomatic talk to consider such a school as the only place where they can be taught in Africa. usa maybe better in mountain welfare, or amphibious welfare. but Ghana has shown she is better in jungle welfare. and the USA recognised that. Ghana did trained some of the finnest Nigeria army and many in Africa. this is an established record.


the video was broadcast to the public not you anyway. you may decide not to watch it.

theenchanter:
ur problem is that u dont know how to disseminate information, u dont know d right words to use at d right time in order to make ur post easily understandable by d reader.

U actually didnt train US army, US army came to ur jungle warefare school to partake in d annual jungle warfare through d partnership between ur armed forces and the US'.

its the regionally aligned force of US army africa. Its done everywhere they're stationed, even in nigeria and kenya.

U didn't train them, they partook in ur jungle warfare trainning.

Your issue is with lack of comprehension. information from the video indicate that was the first time American will be partaking in such exercise in Africa and at such school. this is not joint exercise program

they were trainned in jungle welfare practice in the school. it is not a regionally tailored program.



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The exercise which was opened last week “includes a training by Ghanaians of Americans at the Jungle Warfare Centre and we are very pleased that Ghana remains the only country in Africa that is training US forces,” the outgoing US Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Robert Porter Jackson intimated to a handful of journalists at the US Embassy in Accra on Tuesday July 24.

He said the training spoke to Ghana’s partnership with the United States in the peace and security area.

“Of course Ghana remains an active participant in international peacekeeping and we continue to provide equipment and training for that but we really see this as an equal partnership and we are very excited about the capacity of both countries to contribute equally to that partnership,” he added. ""

AskiaHarem:
Nah they where just being polite...

ok somalians.......

theenchanter:
the bolded is where i stopped reading and gave up.

I know you will not believe.. it non of my buisness anyway.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogq0iZX6QcU

Esseite:
Law of diminishing return would soon take effect, the prices would begin to drop as soon as patronage reduces significantly and people start eating more of locally sourced fish and other produce.

No, Nigeria farmers locally can't meet up the demand of his people. reasons. insuffiecent production and infrastructure are one of the major problem. it is easier and flexible to import flour from Cameroon to the people of adamawa ( border area) than to import from yola because the road are well linked up. it is easier to buy Tomato from benin republic than buying from Nigeria north to the people of lagos because of his close proximity. this is when Nigeria must welcome pan Africanism and acknowledge she can't do it all. we shouldn't allow artificial border create unneccasry wickedness and evil.


what i see is value of money will soon decrease. which have a great hamper effect on the citizens.

MOSICATED5:
We are closing borders when we are not self sufficient in feeding ourselves. Our politicians are just wicked. Buhari can close borders but can't stop going to the UK for healthcare

Nigeria political elites likes deceiving themselves. even buhari prefer a foreign package than anything Nigeria. check out his shoes, eye glass, even his Babariga may be imported. he already secured a foreign degree for his children, secured a foreign hospital for his health-care. etc. yes he order the closure of border sending direct hardship to the people at the bottom level. he is a dictator anyway.

Nigeria food sufficient program should be a long term planning ( ten years at least) cutting the importation of staple food like rice to zero level now is a wicked decision not pragmatic. there are so many lines of buisness chain that solenly dedepends on this and Nigeria in her self can't even meet up the continuous growing demand of the populace. Even China despite his rice sufficient program still import Thailand and Vietnam rice to augment the local ones.

theenchanter:
how well do u want me to explain this matter to u again?

When did/is the US understudy/understudying rwanda's healthcare system?

How's india understudying ghana's industrial policy? Pls, which industries do u have or policy pertaining to industries do u have that india is understudying?

And again, i never mentioned that developed nations understudy nigeria, i said nigeria is seen as the face of d continent, if any research about d continent is done, it mostly starts with nigeria. As a matter of fact, there's nothing developed nations are understudying in africa.

Well, d last emboldened statement is also ur point of view, why was no african country used to compare with india and china except nigeria in that assignment?

if you can't explain in a fewer sentence then you simply don't understand it.

American are pushing forward for Americans goverment to understudy ruwanda universal health care system. a particular state from the USA recently did it.

The one district one factory is Ghana goverment industrial policy. India, Germany have showed significant interest. particular India who is trying to reproduce it in her country.


Nigeria is mostly cited for negative remarks . I have made mention about it. when it comes to reaserch to freedom of speech, rule of law and governance. even smaller nation like Ghana is well documented globally on this regard. it is ignorance for you to say developed nation don't understudy progressive africa nation. Ghana some years back train usa army in the rain forest.


the research project said Nigeria similarly has a starting point compare relatively to the likes of China and India . how many coumtry in africa has a buoyant cash of Nigeria in 1960? and you still ask the ignorance question? I mean the one in red.

AskiaHarem:
Come on bro they've dragged you threw the mud with you desperately kicking and screaming at this point. Just hold your "L" and let it go. Save some shred of dignity.

The somalians dude is on the loose again. haven't i warn you not to quote me again?

theenchanter:
my biggy about d whole deal is that u dont know d difference between assignment and research.

a false postulation that has been corrected . it is later known you couldn't see ""why"" as a research question

And again, nigeria is used because when anything african is concerned among international society, nigeria is always at d forefront, we're d poster child of d continent.

This not even true. some african nation as been adjudged as the poster child. ruwanda healthcare system is currently understudy by the USA. India understudy Ghana industrial policy whenever it comes to the issue of nigeria .it has always been one negative remark. you may need to give me one good thing that has been study from Nigeria globally . nigeria remark is known from insurgency, corruption, poor social system and many more.

U can see that it was stated in d assignment that nigeria epitomized d promises and problems of d continent. We're seen as d face of africa, any research on africa os done starting with nigeria.

. you may need to go read the whole contest again....it dosnt sound like you comprehend it.

this is it

[b]Africa is growing. Seven of the ten fastest growing economies in the world are in Africa, and the continent’s largest economies are becoming less dependent on extractive commodities. The continent’s rising middle class has demonstrated a taste for consumer goods and technological innovation, and Africa’s population-currently more than a billion people- is booming and overwhelmingly young at a time when populations in other regions are shrinking and aging.
Nigeria, sub-saharan Africa’s largest economy, epitomizes both the promise and the problems the continent faces in the 21st century. The contry had failed to thrive for its first thirty years as an independent nation, despite having a developmental head start relative to countries like China and India, [/b]as well as hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenue.. Now, after pathbreaking reforms followed by signs of retrenchment, Nigeria’s new President faced both vast opportunity and grave challenges. Would the country flourish or founder in this new era? We will analyze key reforms in Nigeria’s economy, significant political developments, and the choices facing the country’s fast-growing private sector""

Its more of acknowledgement than public disgrace to be compared with china and india.

lol.... well. this your opinion is not a reflection of many people on the subject. it good you defend it anyway. but it doesn't represent the opinion of the majority on this case. At least, the contest of the question portray it as public disgrace even for the layman.

theenchanter:
why are u dribbling urself? I asked if any of d result from d assignment was verified and accepted by d uni and if any of d result was published for human consumption as u said earlier.

what is your biggy about the whole deal. is it the international public disgrace that comes from a renowned world university professor to use Nigeria as a case study of a failed state in his assignment to his student or that the report to the research assignment is not accessible to you . be clear.

theenchanter:
was any result from d assignment verified and accepted by the uni? Was any result from d assignment published for public consumption?

maybe i will do the stress of sending one of the pdf written by Harvard student. as for acceptance that is not for me to conclude. it is left for the school

theenchanter:
i think u need d education more, its just funny how people that need something more recommends it to someone else.

U asked rvp to download the pdf format of the "research" conducted by harvard to have a glimpse of corruption in nigeria. That mean, u thought it was actually a research by d school not knowing it was just an assignment.

In ur vague mind, u thought there was a result on d research that was posted as pdf format, u also thought there was a link between the assignment and corruption in nigeria.

As a matter of fact, u never knew it was an assignment in d first place, u thought it was a real reseach conducted by d school itself.

The problem is with your thought pattern what if you are link to where it is written by one of the Harvard student . as I said, Nigerians educatuon i hailed.

you think some of the result are not available online. it is undergraduate reaserch assignment. and solution by student to the research can easily be verified on student portal. you may need to take the stress.

theenchanter:
take a look at these two posts, those posts are made by u.... can u spot d diff between the first and d second?

Can u see d reason i refuted the second post? Does it align with the first one?

ok even at that it still can't be used against my first post. reasons. becuse any literature written by Harvard student for the assignment will still be accredited to Harvard if verified to be correct and accepted by the uni and may even be published for public consumption just as the case.

theenchanter:
can u imagine vaxx? A professor in harvard gave his students an assignment last year, in d assignment, he asked d students to state why nigeria failed to thrive between 1960 and 1999 in relative with china and indai.

And vaxx is twisting it to something else, below is d assignment.

And yet you failed to see the asigmemt as research. again Nigerians I hailed your education. once again ""why"" is essential research question and if that is not even understood . the China, India comparism is enough to let you know.

theenchanter:
dude, all u posted about our politics was trash, thats a story for another day.

You will have made impact if one of what i wrote was a lie. but anyway it is good you called it trashed to killed the argument.

theenchanter:
thank u. So why label an "assignment" a "research" by harvard.

Do also know that nigeria was compared with china and india in that assignment and not with any african country?

it is research assignment man. the mode of the question simply illustrate it as research.


and China India were used because it is reaserch base. a simply glimpse of that assignment should have tell you.


""Why"" did Nigeria fail to thrive between 1960 to 1999, particularly relative to China and India( this simply research bro. Nigerians I hailed your education lol....

theenchanter:
guy, this is an online platform, many people will see ur posts and some ignorant folks will think ur posts are correct.

Its not good to post many unverified posts on d internet and making it sound right.

You will need to challenge what you are ignorant about. at least when you can bubuttress it with available source then I dropped the argument. it is fact some Nigerians politician are worth billions of dollars. investing. com ( a reliable online paper sighted babangida and obasonjo) it another fact that Nigeria is a transit hub of illegal drugs( Wikipedia has it as source. one of the known Nigeria politicians was once allegedly known as drug dealers. this can also be established from multiple source online( bola tinubu) what you are yet to know is how sophisticated is this dealing in Nigeria. but it is not a must you know.

theenchanter:
pls, when did harvard university conducted a research on failed states using nigeria as case study?

it was an assignment given to student by Harvard uni anyway. Google is your best friend on this.

theenchanter:
How can @vaxx dish out so many erroneous details like that.... gawd!

what am giving you aren't info you can easily access or verified as it not accessible. you don't need to belief them.

Zimbabweans are Ghanaian inlaw. so we should be carried along in the burial of our late daughter husband ( Sally Mugabe ) .... Robert Mugabe owns a lot to Ghanaian

rvp20182:
Nigeria has 200m souls - compared to 50m kenyans.

But the majority of the people don't live where the land is available. they lives in where land is scarce and profitable like oil. land is accessible for any elites in the north.

rvp20182:
Nigeria has no land to grab. If you understand land acreage in Kenya, Zim and South Africa - owned by Brits - and later - grabbed by political class - we talking 100K acre of farms. Kenyattas own 0.5M acres.

Nigeria is about two times bigger than kenya in land size. and most of the large land are in the North. very accessible to the northern political class because of his cheaper rate compare to west and influence .

rvp20182:
Just put down the acreage of Obasanjo farm. I bet the land Kenyatta own in Nairobi alone - is twice what Obasanjo chicken farm does.

I am not his manager but available source. his ota farm is among the largest farm in nigeria and the single owned individual farm probably in west africa. it is worth about 30 thousand hecters of land . and that is in ogun state. based on another cited Nigeria paper. his cross river farm is around 10 thousand hecters. and rhey are still others in oyo state , kaduna and many location of ogun state.


At 2017, his farm alone employ about 5500 people directly.

rvp20182:
I know of Obasanjo chicken farm. That is very small . Kenya and Nigeria are twin in corruption. I think Gen Sani Abacha basically outdid everyone

Let me explain to you how Kenya political class made their money.

1963 - Kenya was direct/crown colony - like Zimbabwe and South Africa.

British - basically owned all the good lands - more than 3-5m hectares of prime land.

British left - in haste - because the bloody armed struggle - they run to Zim & South Africa & back to England - and all tha land was left for gov of kenya to dish.

Kenyatta and others - basically took as much land. Kenyatta grabbed 0.5M hectares. The rest took anythin from 10k-100K acres

There is nothing like that in Africa - maybe Mugabe half-hearted seizure or a few in South Africa.

The next corruption happened in 1973 - when Kenya gov allowed civil servants to own business and companies.

No you don't know about obasonjo farm? obasonjo produce nearly everything produce in west african soil. both crops and animal. obasonjo in ota farm alone cover over 30 thousand hecters of land . not to talk of the one in oyo state and cross river. You are talking about a family business. I am giving you a glimpse of a single individual land belonging to a single person. sani abaccha is just fortunate becuse of the oil price then. the oil was well priced during his regime .



there is a research conducted by Harvard university on failed state using Nigeria as a case study. i will advise you to download the pdf to get a glimpse of how Nigeria is notoriously corrupt

rvp20182:
I see you ran into politics. I think you don't know kenya . Let me tell you Kenya and Nigeria are twins when it come to corruption. For example Kenya first president - Jomo Kenyatta - the father of current presidents - is definitely the richest man in Africa - if you go by land holdings alone.

2nd presiden Moi is definitely top 3 or 5 in wealth in entire Africa.

Kenya is a thriving swamp of corruption and drug dealing.

Kenyatta land holdings alone....the first 3 are within Nairobi Metro - where an acre of land is something else.Just imagine owning 50,000 acres in or near a city like Nairobi

10, 000 acre Gichea Farm in Gatundu.
5, 000 acres in Thika.
9,000 acres in Kasarani Mwiki
5, 000-acre Muthaita Farm
24, 000 acres in Taveta
50, 000 acres in Taita,
29, 000 acres in Kahawa Sukari along Thika Superhighway
10, 000-acre ranch in Naivasha

52,000-acre farm in Nakuru
10, 000 acres in Rumuruti
40,000 acres in Endebes in the Rift Valley

lol..... Africa is corrupt i know. but Nigeria is notoriously corrupt. I am not hidding under politicians. the politicians are the best I can say on this note . you are of the opinion that Nigerians don't run drug dealings and I said it is because of the complicated buisness channel in Nigeria that is not made available to the public unlike kenya. the notoriously rich Hausa/ fulani made money thru many ways . they made use of their diplomatic power judiciously.


have you heard of obasonjo farms? I doubt no. the same obasonjo have similar land size in benin republic ( his mother country) and so it is the former vice president of obasonjo ( muhamadu atiku).

go check obasonjo farms . he has farms across Nigeria...

theenchanter:
no nigerian politician is richer than dangote.

No nigerian politician has a case of drug deals.

No nigeriam politician is worth billions of dollar.

Yes that is the point . it is strong and a developed business. you can't even know the cartel exist. you think all those rich politicians made their money off goverment purse? . well on the case of drug dealings. bola tinubu case was well known but not fully successful .


many Nigerians politicans are worth billions of dollars.. politicians buisness life are not available on the media. but a reasonable individual who understand Nigeria operative buisness channel understand. many oil well are allocated to some of them. some of them them have a high stake in one of the most profiting buisness in Nigeria and others.