₦airaland Forum

nkwuocha:
We all know who started the Cyber bulling.The fact that the minority where Jonathan came are jittery about it doesn't mean it's forgiven.

We remember vividly that media bullying from the old to the present is majorly from the South West region.For years,many tolerated your tribal slurs on other tribes through your print media,but the world has changed now.
I think we learnt from the best.

Okay, I understand... "All man for himself"!

My mind is made up.

Let's keep fighting and cursing each other, even cursing our aged parents and the unborn children.... That is the greatest strategy to win at the poll.

One love bro.

nkwuocha:
Tribal war between the Igbos and Yorubas starting way before this election.The physical fight between the two is because of Tinubu's toxic ways of governance.

If you're supporting peter Obi,support him.The Igbos supported Obasanjo without raising any tribal slurs.

You are still playing that same 666tribal card...

That some igbos voted for Obasanjo is not enough defense for deep hatred and unnecessary bullying.

Many Yorubas voted for Goodluck Jonathan not because of tribal sentiments but hope that, perhaps he may get it right.

Nigerians from Niger Delta were not calling anyone enemies or attacking any tribe... They worked so hard to earn the sympathy and respect of other tribes and willfully, everyone supported his ambition.

Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta, boys in the creeks, and all other angry youth organizations dropped their weapons and embrace peace...

They won the trust of the majority and they have their ways but, you guys are making more enemies for yourselves rather than friends....

I wish you guys can change your ways early especially now that majority are looking towards your region for a true savior.

#dont blow your chances with cyber bullying.

Many Yoruba and non Igbos are truly and willing to do everything possible to make sure APC never happen to us again in Nigeria but the way "Obidients' are making this presidential race to look like a tribal war is discouraging ...

The sad reality of this cyber bullying is that many non igbos who are tired of APC may decide not to come out and vote on election day which will plunge us back into the depth of what we are running away from.

I think instead of hatred and tribal attacks, we can preach love and hope for each other. We can choose to understand and respect our differences as a people. We are suffering the same APC inflicted calamities together, why do we still hate a fellow brother in suffering?

I am a full blooded Yoruba man, never voted for APC and no one from my FAMILY WILL EVER VOTE FOR APC but Obidients'are making it difficult for me and my likes to live with their deep hatred for everything non igbo.

I don't want to vote for a president whom is people will come back and treat my people like their conquest.... No! I WON'T!

Being a Nigerian descent is a great thing, especially when you are of royal lineage in a strange land. That you are 43% Nigerian based on one scientific fact which may not be true doesn't make you a full blooded Nigerian.

Why can't you enjoy the beautiful soft life that nature has bestowed you? Do your possible best to help the struggling black race. Never put yourself in the middle racial conflict and make yourself a target of white supremacists.

WannaHowzit:
Post videos or forever hold your peace.

These days global dance challenges are dominated by SA. Nigerians are too bulky to be "the best dancers in the world". Come on now, come out of lalaland.

Its like you are angry with someone or something already..... Or just a natural anger problems

What is lalaland by the way?

WannaHowzit:

Dude, here's a challenge...
Drop a video here of a Nigerian who dances to amapiano better than her (smooth).
In my opinion Nigerians are just as "jerky and stiff".

I await your response, my son - and I come in peace

Your assertions about Nigerians on the dance floor is incorrect. Take it or leave it, no tribe, race or colour dances better than Nigerians. Bring it on!

I challenge the whole world against Nigeria on the dance floor.....

SAMBARRY:
amugbo king better than a sudden serial polygamist? King wey dey him househelp? They're all birds of a feather

Even though Oluwo is not a man of with decent character especially in the public. Most times his words and attitude doesn't portray royalty yet, he doesn't go about parading and brandishing frustrated Oloshos' all around as queens.

A royal palace without sanity, royalty clothed in rags and semi-nudity, royalty without character but filled with moral decadence. .. There's nothing royal about royalty without honour and dignity.

Trust Nigerian Police at your own peril...

I am beggining y to think that, Oluwo of Iwo land is a better king than this Ooni of Ife...

I have my reasons.

Average Hausa boys selling stuffs on the street of Lagos doesn't want to hear the name of Mr President... You'll see disappointments and regrets all over there faces while they express their hopelessness...

They've forgotten to release the content of the camera found by special agent Fashola at Lekki tollgate... Abi the camera is not working ni?

Emmanuel claims that he was involved in his first car accident in 2019, just a few days after celebrating his birthday.

I can't even make anything out of the news other than the guy is sending forget me not message to all his fans.

Well, we've seen you bro

just2endowed:
Dollar is cedis is still around 12.5 cedies
Dollar to naira is hovering around 700 to 730


My bro so

What you don't know is that 12.5 cedies to a dollar is actually 12,500ced

The last fiscal adjustment the did some years back is now trolling them. They fraudulently cut some zeros away from their valueless Ceedis....

They started jubilating when they perpetrated the highest foolhardiness in the history national economics..... Ghana does not deserve to be addressed as a country.

Do you remember this rhyme?

Man City died and gone to his grave
Hum!, ha! gone to his grave

They planted an Apple tree over his head
Hum! ha! Over his head....

Drop the next lines.....

tollyboy5:
That's your headache.
I'm from Lagos state and I'm a Christian.
My family are Muslims.
Carry your conspiracy theory to another place.
As far as Lagos is concern, christian will stand with Muslim and Muslim will stand with Christian all this busy body of hijab or no salat should get lost!

None of you has effontory to face the truth when it comes to defending that which you belief. Imagine name calling and abusive rants when your religious ideologies the test of realities.
It isn't a wrong thing to be a Muslim, but very wrong for Muslim to dictate how other people would run their establishments.

haslaw:
Why am I even bothering to reply you send.

Just let this sink into your thick SKULL.

Any organisation that tries to prevent Muslims from praying will be shut down and the managers arrested because we own this country.

This is exactly what I am saying.. threatening anyone who doesn't share common opinion with them. You must tolerate them at the expense of your own beliefs.

This is it!

tollyboy5:
Hypocrisy is when a generally known phenomenon becomes a problem.

Let the bank come out and state they're against jumat so we'll know what's next.
In all places I've worked Muslim ovserve jumat.
Hypocrisy is when you start finding problem where there's none.
My colleagues will go to mosque and we at the office will take charge and even the IT manager and others don't see it as a problem.

Hypocrisy is when double standard seems to be most ideal situation and you can not talk about it simply because, some people's sentiments will be bruised.

Do we have any fellowship gathering inside Muritala Muhammed International Airport but we have like 2 spots where solat is being constantly observed.
The question is: Is Nigeria an Islamic country!?
Forcing people to tolerate you and respect you even when it is not convenient for them is demonic. Dragging other people's space with them and threatening them in the name of your religion is evil.

I am not intolerant of Islam but Islam lack respect and regard for other People's interest and emotions.

oloyedewaris:
Then the bank should work on Sundays to show professionalism

Our christian friends working in UAE, Egypt, Bahrain and other Muslim countries goes to work on Sundays without and rest on Fridays without blackmailing their employers based on their religion sentiments.

We just have to come to the understanding that, your JOB is a CONTRACT between YOU and your EMPLOYER.... it is otherwise known as MASTER/ SERVANT AGREEMENT.

While your RELIGION is between you and your MAKER.

Mixing the two is evil and will definitely be counterproductive.

tollyboy5:
Trash!

From government work to private work all over the world Muslims are allowed to attend jumat.

It's Polaris bank case that is now different, what nonsense!

Your response is quite sentimental!

The question is: Was it stated in their application letter that, religion would be mixed with their official duties when they are begging to apply for the job?

We need to face reality and stop behaving like we do not know the difference between obligations and rights.


Lastly, I have no problems with religion, but, hypocrisy is what we must all condemn in all sincerity.

Cutehector:
bro..all these big english wey you dey speak, no go matter. HR Was supposed to do a simple job by balancing Christians and muslims ratio in that branch.

I should be firing the HR partner covering that branch and not the muslims..

A competent HR or any credible organization would not hire their staff base on religion sentiments, rather, on your potentials and capabilities of adding value to the organization.

Your religion and your job are two vertical lines that must not intercept each other at any point in time.

To me, it is unethical and un-business like for almost everyone in the branch to abandon their duty post at the same time in the name of anything.

This is bullying and subjugating professionalism in the name religion.

07kjb:
Nope bro is not easy to kill a PRESIDENT.the situation can't continue getting worse

It is very easy to poison the president... Few of his aides are enough to deliver the deadly blow

Jennifer663:
May God have mercy on us

The only reason why Nigeria must remain one by force.....

Did anyone see the reason why Ken Saro-Wiwa and others must die a shameful death... They were made a sample for anyone who want to fight against the organized crime of oil theft in the country.

Pls read this article and judge for yourself!!




We were once told not to approach a wellhead in Niger Delta.
The reason was simple.
There was an ongoing 'operation'.
I was working with an oil service company, we had already gone back to accommodation after working on the well.
But a call from base necessitated we get to the wellhead again the same night.
We waited to have a feedback confirmation on when to approach.
Worthy of note is that we move with armed military and mobile police.
It took 4 hours.
Then we saw the convoy, a streak of rickety tankers, and a Hilux.
They were heading out with crude.
The 'operation' was over.
This is the first of many, that I encountered while working in the field.
I am an Engineer.
I have worked in the Niger delta extensively, exploring the vast land, swamp, and deep offshore.
I have supported operations in different companies and communities and have been taken hostage on two occasions.
On the 6th of October 2022, NNPC announced it has discovered a 4km pipeline that transfers crude illegally to an offshore platform.
In their claim, this has been going on for 9 years.
The story you are about to read is dated beyond 9 years.
Using data and real-time observations, I will challenge among others how a brazen corruption act can go unquestioned and uninterrupted.
For starters, oil stealing is not a secret in Niger Delta.
It's like saying the police take bribes on the road.
The discussion changes when the inspector general (IG) comes to a public station and challenges the notion that his boys take bribes from motorists.
Illegal bunkering has been as old as oil industry in Nigeria.
Something happened around 2016 that changed the scale.
This is a journey into oil theft in Nigeria.
Let's start by looking at the morning of November 27, 2003, when three journalists were arraigned before Yaba magistrate court Lagos.
Osa Director (editor-in-chief: insider weekly), and two senior colleagues of the paper, Janet Mba-Mba Afolabi and Chuks Onwudinjo.
All were charged with sedition and criminal defamation.
Their offense was an article written on illegal bunkering (oil stealing) involving highly placed individuals in the presidency, particularly Atiku (Vice-president of that period) and Gasua (Director of NSA).
Interestingly, the defense lawyer was Festus Kayamo who is presently the official APC spokesman.
They will be bailed and the case will lose steam like many others before and after it.
Oil stealing however has been happening way before this period.
One these was challenged on 29th of Nov 2012.
SERAP charged IBB to court for the windfall of 1991 gulf war, where a whooping sum of $12.4B was reported stolen.
Just like others, this case never saw the light of day.
To steal oil, you must have a source and a buyer.
The source is simple.
It's Nigerian oil.
The method or approach is different.
Earlier, during the military era, it was the very high and mighty that has exclusive rights and they stole at scale but it went almost unnoticed because no one (masses) could see it.
Little wonder Nigeria still receives Christmas gifts from Daddy Abacha now and then.
This changed in 1999.
Democracy was born.
New players came to town.
The source changed from export terminals to newfound sources:
The trunk lines.
Like any other criminal trade, it was limited to highly positioned men with means- Feeder barges pick crude and transfer to mother vessels.
If you are conversant with the Niger Delta, the fight that most people may term Niger-delta-freedom-fights has always been the fight to control this means.
The Yaradua administration slowed things down when amnesty was offered in the zone.
But amnesty has never been an alternative to sustainable leadership.
Like cancer, it crumbled when the new frontiers of crude oil sources were opened without challenge.
Welcome, the environmental degrader, 'Kpo-fire!'.
It is the street name given to the illegal refining.
Most militants that had no means of feeding a mother ship plunged into it.
It was more like a leveler.
Not only was this the beginning of black soot in portharcourt and her environs, it is also the biggest environmental disaster as it gets the flora and fauna degraded.
'Kpo-fire' became extremely attractive, especially to men of little means.
With as little as 4 metal drums, 20ft of 2'' line, and a 200-300 bbl tank, all close to a flowing pipeline, you are ready for business.
It spread like wildfire.
Most of the militants became engaged.
(The quietness of Niger Delta areas for 8 years running can be linked to this.)
The buyers are the unsuspecting and most recently, the keenly-aware public.
As widely spread as the kpo-fire is, it is NOT the primary source of loss that made NNPC fail to remit money to the federation account for six months running.
This is where it starts getting interesting.
According to the data from Statista, oil production, which has been sustained above 2M barrels in Nigeria, dipped sharply in 2016.
It never recovered from the dip, notwithstanding the outstanding opportunity during the Ukraine-Russia war that saw oil prices above $100/bbl.
Most oil coming from the land is either shut in (lock down the well) or stolen if transported through the pipeline.
Unlike when the stealing happens from Terminals and/or high-end balance of trade points (only governments and politicians), it has gone multi-faceted.
You have the 'kpo-fire'
You have the middle range stealing and transloading(Trunk lines).
You have the Terminal stealing.
Among these 3 categories, Kpo-fire has the least economic impact (but has the worst environmental impact), however, it is pushed to the public as most notorious.
The major stealing is the other two.
Now, consider a yam thief caught in the village market.
If he survived lynching, I can bet he either may not make use of his eyes, hand, or leg.
The news of the beating will be shared on social media.
The videos will be downloaded and reshared.
Yet, in that market, the tax paid by all yam sellers to address the drainage of the market was embezzled by the local government chairman, and yet no uproar.
Nothing short of this scenario plays out in oil stealing.
While the major criminals make away with high-volume assets, the media, and politicians including NNPC focus on kpo-fire.
A diversion
If you are still reading this, you would have heard that NNPC led by Mele Kyari, discovered a 4km illegal pipeline that was tapping from the Trans-focados feeder line.
What you will also hear is that this line has been there for 9 years.
This is not true.
Unless they are the ones that did the tapping, one cannot determine the timeline of a connection by mere looking.
It takes a forensic investigation.
A political statement at best.
When asked about his opinion on the rise of oil stealing in Niger-delta, Richard Kennedy, MD of Chevron Nigeria, has this to say;
"From my experience, the issue with crude oil theft should not be confused with host community issues. It is much much much bigger than that.
It is completely different from host community issues, Quite frankly, it is an organized crime."
You may not agree with him, but
Pay close attention to his choice of words, "...much, much, much bigger...."
In other words, the stealing was above 'kpo-fires' (Community issues),
Tony Elumelu accentuated this position in March 2022, when he bemoaned that Nigeria was losing 95% of her crude to thieves.
For context, a single VLCC (Very large crude carrier) carries 2M barrels of crude.
If one is to transport from bush to VLCC, one will require more than 12.7 million 25-litter containers (which is the standard container used in transporting kpo-fire crude).
Production from all 25liter gallons from all of West Africa will not meet this demand.
It is, therefore, logistically and operationally impossible to execute.
Using fluid dynamics, pressure differential, metering system, pigging,
the smallest flow station in the Niger Delta can know when a pipeline has leaks or is tapped.
Do not be deceived.
This is basic in all installations.
It is also important to know that DSS, Police, Army, NNPC, and NSA are all present and sign off any shipment that leaves Nigeria.
Yet,
On the 7th of August 2022, a ship (VLCC- MT Heroic Idun) believed to have approached Akpo field (FPSO: offshore facility) 'ran' from the Nigeria Navy vessel (NNS Gongola).
Like saying a Dangote truck ladden with cement outran a Lamborghini.
It will take a small underfunded navy from Equitorial guinea to intercept the ship.
Yet these things happen daily.
Nigeria loses 437,000 bbls of crude per day and has lost $10 billion in 7 months.
But the institutions laden with production and protection of the crude, NNPC, and the security outfits respectively are only finding out an illegal line being operated for '9 years'.
Let's be clear,
Major oil stealing in Niger Delta is an elite affair.
The VLCC that lifted crude from Akpo cannot approach that facility if NNPC and/or the Presidency (Minister of Petroleum: President Mohamadu Buhari) didn't make the necessary calls.
Nothing can be further from self-deceit if you think otherwise.
They collude.
It is this collusion that escalated across the value chain of stealing in 2016.
Both in the lower cadre (kpo-fire) and upper cadre(offshore and pipeline).
It was this collusion that Wike wanted to challenge some months ago, again focusing on kpo-fire angle but hit a brick wall.
The collusion has been institutionalized.
On my last visit to an offshore facility, looking out from the chopper, I saw more than 15 kpo fire sites.
It's that simple to locate.
It was a 20mins trip, probably 6hrs could have shown all the coordinates of the kpo-fire scattered around the swamps.
The big work is identifying and naming the people behind the stealing, on an industrial scale.
Richard Kennedy was right.
This is an organised crime and it goes way up.
If you believe that those gallons you see on TV with young people covered in black soot are the source of losses, you truly can believe anything.

- Francis Ugo.

Dialpad:
Some people will always spoil opportunities for others.

They did not commit any crime... They got their visas through a legitimate means, and They are living their lives within the provisions of immigration path that usher them into the UK.

If you have the financial strength to do so, would you give it second thought? Btw: 38,000 people as a dependents across different regions of UK is not a threat to their economy.

Acadia07:
N kan ti mo n so ni pe, kini oruko photosynthesis ma je ni ede yoruba.


You tried saying the meaning of photosynthesis in Yoruba. I know it isn't an impossible task, but it'll be really hard.

Nigba miran ti e ba fe ba wa soro, e ri daju wipe e mo ohun ti e n so daradara. Photosynthesis kii se ede oyinbo rara, sugbon ede ayalo lati ede awon ara ilu Giriki ni...
Awon oyinbo Ile Geesi ati ile Amerika paapa ko ni oro tiwon lati yanana Oro na.

E see pupo...

Psych412:
if I use goggle translator because of you ehn

Google translator will truncate everything. Google mo ayinike ni, ko mo ayinipada

[quote author=Psych412 post=117452528][/quote]Opakaso!
Iyen ni a n pe ni abala f'oye gbe.

Aigbofa laawoke; ifa kan o si ni para.


Yoruba ye wa ju ara wa lo!

4Humanity4All:
@Psych412
Translation:"Try to participate in the exercise my friend . Do you even know the Yoruba alphabets, the signs on top of Yoruba words?
Ha! Yoruba is interesting oo".

Aayan ogbufo... E ku ise takun takun ti e n se. Awon alale Ile yi yio gbe wa o.

Acadia07:
Yoruba version, hehehehehe hehehehehe . What do you think photosynthesis will be in Yoruba? It's not easy at all.

Emi na mo wipe ko rorun rara, sugbon mo le gbiyanju e wo.

Photosynthesis.... Bi eweko se n gba agbara/ounje lati ara itansan oorun.

I swear it isn't an impossible task.