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These guys don’t fear God at all! Ananias and Saphirra!! Will they ever listen!!! He puts himself and generation after him under a curse!!!

danilmo:
He left for Abuja that same night bro..

An old man ridicules himself who hides himself away from folks who are obligated to ensure he is given a decent burial when he is dead.

Where is Fayemi?

Did the police give out a warning to the public such an event was to take place? It is standard practice to do so.

funkekemi:
United nation don't have this kind of low IQ like you .

Hmmmm! That is the type of response Nigeria is likely to give to The UNO. That is what I was trying to pass across. Prof Chinua Achebe long ago advised against loudness in intellectual engagements. It gives one out as an empty barrel. “I will be the first to concede that the Igbo as a group is not without its flaws. Its success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, than can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness. There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behavior that can offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.” - Chinua Achebe

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” - William Shakespeare.

Hmmmm!

Rollitout:
Please kindly accept my offer, I'm ready to be your boyfriend.

Your axe head is sooo blunt! No way! Gold digger!

BigCabal:
The subject of today’s “A Week In The Life” is a process engineer at an oil-producing facility. Process engineers ensure that the process of crude oil production from collection to processing for sale runs smoothly. What this means is that they spend a lot of their time, solving problems or preventing problems from happening.

Our subject tells us about being the only woman at her job, life at sea, and what it takes to extract crude oil.

MONDAY:

The time I wake up depends on whether I’m working from my house or I’m working offshore at sea. At home, my body wakes up by 7:30 a.m., but my brain starts by 8:00 a.m.

When I’m offshore, my day starts at 6:00 a.m. and doesn’t end until about 2 a.m.

Today, the thing that wakes me up is the sound of my 5:30 a.m. alarm. I almost press snooze until I remember that I’m on a floating oil production facility at sea. I have just enough time to get out of bed, shower and prepare for my day.

It’s a few minutes till 6:00 a.m. when I leave my room for my first meeting of the day. Dressed in my coverall, safety goggles, hat, safety boots, and earmuffs, I slowly make my way to the meeting point.

The first meeting of the day is typically a handover shift. Because oil production is a 24-hour affair, personnel work 12-hour shifts. This means that every 12 hours, one shift is handed over to the other. At the 6:00 a.m. meetings, the technicians on the night shift inform their colleagues on the morning shift of whatever happened during the night. While the technicians get to work shifts, my job as an engineer requires me to work round the clock.

I listen attentively during these meetings because their updates determine the course of my day. If they raise an issue, my plans for the day take a backseat until I fix that issue. If there’s nothing to report, my day proceeds as planned.

Thankfully, the meeting ends at 6:15 a.m. That gives me time to relax before my 6:30 a.m. meeting. At this meeting, managers from the different teams on the platform gather to give updates about what happened the day before and also map out plans for the day.

The meeting ends at 7:15 a.m. with a reminder of safety precautions. This gives me some time to prepare my notes for the next meeting at 7:30 a.m. Here, I report to the higher-ups. As the engineering rep on board the facility, I summarise all the updates from the technical team and update my senior colleagues on our progress regarding oil production.

It’s 8:30 a.m. before I’m done with my final meeting for the day, and that’s when my day truly begins.

TUESDAY:

It’s currently 2:00 a.m. and I’ve barely slept. I started yesterday with meetings, continued with reading safety reports, extended the day by inspecting oil pipes in my facilities, and ended it in my room responding to emails.

I find engineering super fascinating. It’s interesting that some people used some super cool technology to locate crude oil-producing rocks, mapped out an area and drilled for oil. Then, the drillers not only discovered oil, but they confirmed — using various methods — that the oil was present in commercial quantities.

So they made oil pipes, machines, and other cool equipment to extract the oil from 10,000 feet below the ground to the surface. But, because this oil isn’t exactly fit for use, they now extended pipes from the spot where the oil was discovered to production facilities like mine.

On the facility, there’s me, whose job it is to ensure that oil flows smoothly from where it is produced to production facilities where we process into a form fit for sale to refineries. Whew.

The cool part of the job is that I’m always solving problems. One valve spoils and because of that, a well isn’t producing oil? I’ll brainstorm, send an instrument technician to look at it and provide technical oversight. Some machine part is not doing what it’s supposed to do? I’ll think over it, share a repair plan and send a mechanical technician to fix it. Safety precautions not being met that can spell danger for us? I’ll get in front of it. My entire job is an exercise in firefighting and proactiveness.

The downside? The subtle pressure. Being in charge of the oil production process means I must be on top of everything. The facility I’m in charge of has a target to produce more than *60,000 barrels of oil a day. Crude oil is $85 per barrel. Do the maths and tell me what it adds up to.

You don’t want to be the person who missed something that caused the company to lose 60,000 times $85 for every day the facility is down. But, no pressure. It wouldn’t be fun for me if it wasn’t this challenging and rewarding.

WEDNESDAY:

Life at sea is peculiar; the problems differ every day but the scenery remains the same. I’m surrounded by miles and miles of water with nothing else in sight. When I get stressed from work, I go out and stare at the water. Surrounded by water I feel very small and I’m reminded that not a lot of things matter. This helps to decompress and centre me.

You already know how my days go, but today is different.

I have a difficult problem that I can’t quite crack: cravings. Because I’m at sea and I can’t quickly cross the road, I’m stuck with the nonsense feeling. Yesterday, I was craving puff puff. Today, I am craving waakye. I wonder what craving I will have tomorrow. The most annoying part is that when I’m on land the cravings won’t come, but immediately when I’m offshore, they’ll start to hit me. And I can’t do anything about it but endure until it passes.

The good thing is that there’s a lot of food, fruits and snacks in our offshore canteen. This is in addition to my own specially prepared offshore starter pack.

Ebeano plantain chips: present ma.

Chocolate Mcvities biscuits: present ma.

Gestid for acid reflux: present ma.

Excess sanitary pads: present ma.

Painkillers for cramps: present ma.

These are the things that make life a little bearable for me. At least, if I can’t eat waakye, I can eat plantain chips and manage myself.

THURSDAY:

Everywhere I turn on this facility, someone is always shouting, “Our Engineer,” “Well-done, Engineer.” I suspect I get special treatment offshore for two reasons: The first is that I’m an engineer which is a highly respected role in the organization hierarchy. The second is because I’m the only woman in my facility. For various reasons such as family responsibilities, marriage pressures, etc women typically don’t go offshore. For this reason, the men are usually excited to see a woman among them.

The good part? The men are some of the funniest people I know. I guess humour is how they deal with being separated from their families for long stretches in a year.

The bad part? The people who don’t know me sometimes try to proposition me. Well, up until they find out who I am and then the conversation changes to that of deference and respect.

Today, I wake up thinking that one of the reasons this role works for me is because I’m single, I don’t have kids, and nothing ties me down to one place or city. For many other women, this is not the case. With children and family responsibilities, their priorities shift and this role with its demands no longer suit them.

I don’t know what will change if I decide to start a family someday . I love engineering because of how much there is to learn and discover, and the closest I come to practising it is when I’m offshore. The thought of giving it up if push comes to shove is something I have never considered. I wonder what choice I’ll make.

But that doesn’t matter now because I have a ton of inspection and oil pipe integrity testing to do today. A perk of this job is that you can get so immersed in monitoring day to day operations that your personal problems take a back seat. And to be honest, that works for me. At least, for now.

Source: https://www.zikoko.com/money/hustle/im-the-only-woman-at-my-job-a-week-in-the-life-of-an-oil-and-gas-engineer-at-sea/?utm_source=nairaland_reshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_id=nairaland.261021

Chop and Gas!

Whiteangel1234:
OPEN LETTER TO THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT, LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIARY

The Biafran Supreme Military Council of Administration [BSMCA] sends its warmest regards to the Nigerian Presidency, Legislature and Judiciary and wishes to inform you that the Biafran National Guard [BNG] has been mandated by Indigenous Biafrans to protect and defend its territories. The Indigenous Biafrans have RESOLVED to Re-Declare, Re-Actualize, Renew, Re-affirm and Restore the sovereign state of Biafra on 30th October, 2021.

The Biafran National Guard is the military wing for the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra and made up of the Biafran Army, Biafran Air-Force, Biafran Navy and Biafran Detective Force. In that regard, the Peoples and Nation of Biafra make neither war, nor peace with the State or Peoples of Nigeria but exercising a Natural right, a Popular right, a Political right and right by several international laws, charters and convention which Nigeria is a signatory – the Right of Self-determination.

The peoples of Biafra desire to be independent, as the amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates by the British to create Nigeria has not been favorable to the indigenes. Rather, Indigenous Biafrans have been melted with marginalization in political offices, public services and administrations. Also, gross insecurity from BokoHaram, Fulani Herdsmen whom are conscripted into the Nigerian Police, Military and Para-Military.

Recall, the bloody coup in January 1966 was erroneously tagged an “Igbo Coup” resulting in the massacre of Indigenous Biafrans and destruction of their properties. Meanwhile the primary agenda of the coup plotters was to overthrow the government, then release opposition leader Obafemi Awolowo, a Yoruba man, from Prison and appoint him as the Prime Minister. This truth was confirmed by one of the coup plotters named Major Wale Ademeyoga.

Fifty-one years after the Biafran Genocide, the 3Rs of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Restructure programme promulgated by Yakubu Gowon in 1970 is yet to see any form of impact in the lives of Indigenous Biafrans.

The United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 4 affirmed that “Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.”

Also Article 6 reaffirmed that “Every indigenous individual has the right to a nationality.”

The Council is emphatically demanding for the release of innocent Biafran men and women unjustly imprisoned for over fifteen (15) years in the Onitsha and Awka Prisons simply for exercising their rights to self-determination.

These Biafran prisoners of conscience are Mrs. Onyekachi Orji, Miss Okwudiri Bassey, Uche Idikaigbo, Michael Okezie, Uchenna Nicholas, Peter Igbokwe, Ikechukwu Aghara, Chima Asor and Chinweike Irondi.

Others are Sabastine Amadi, Casmir Odakara, Ojemba Anyanwu, Eni Kalu, Ndubuisi Okam, Ikechukwu Chikwem, Emmanuel Orji, Chukwuma Kalu, Chidiebere Chikwem and Mmaduabuchi Asika. Including Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Benjamin Onwuka.

It is sheer wickedness that President Muhammadu Buhari aggressively supports the right determination of Western Sahara but brandishes weapon of warfare against Indigenous Biafrans seeking to exercise same right.

We hope we would come to an understanding with the Nigerian government on the re-declaration of the sovereignty of our nation – Biafra.

SIGNED:

General INNOCENT N. ORJI

[Head BNG/BSMCA],

Colonel GABRIEL ONWUKWE

[Deputy Head BNG/BSMCA],

Comrade UKA KALU

[Acting Secretary, Office of Head BNG/BSMCA].

Comrade AGWU FRANCIS

[BNG Spokesperson]

https://biafranstar.com/blog/

Degema, Uyo in Biafra!!! Lolllzzzzz!

Kanu was wanted in Nigeria for jumping bail. The Nigerian government suddenly found him at a Nigerian airport and arrested him to continue his day in court.

When br whose passport he also holds has not lifted a finger!! He thinks he can hideaway in a foreign country and throw stones.

Fuckthamods:
Good!
God punish all enemies of Ipob

Child exploitation!

Better and wisdom o stay on the side of the people for obvious reasons

Sammy07:
Lol, I'm sure you're from IMO state

Could be Abia State where pot bellies are filled with kerosene.

bigpicture001:
Your pointless... Watch my moniker!

"Do not always assume that a pot bellied man has eaten"

kettykin:
That someone financed NADECO is no reason to hand over the Nigerian presidency to such a fellow
While Tinubu was on a self imposed exile there were group 34 eminent politicians who did not brun away but stoood their ground to request Abacha to hand over to a democratic government. Non of them got rewarded with even a governorship position.

Tinubu has already been rewarded with Lagos state governorship post for 8 years and Lagos state treasury for his life time, is this not enough reward already

Nelson Mandela on my mind. The BAT paid his dues. He was a major factor back then when supposed NADECO Leaders resident in the country turned out to be turncoats. Their identities are not unknown.

Dalil8:
Everything this man toiled for is going down the drain. So sad.

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Isn’t it apparent that TB Joshua and the church he ran while he lived stood for all that is fake?

Congratulations!

Muyiwaipere:
Wetin go still end am na rigging

That is if the election go hold self

It helps a lot to believe that things will work out.

iPhone

The South East Governors and political leadership have blood on their hands. They should be okay now.

Hin front teeth don comot!

EcoBrick:
https://punchng.com/fg-blames-nnamdi-kanu-for-murder-of-akunyilis-husband-gulak-184-others/

Proof beyond reasonable doubt. Nexus stuff. Actus reus and mens rea et al

funshint:
Just put them in the fridge

Bullseye. You are appreciated. The guy seeking traffic can go elsewhere!

The water boy, ponmo cutter is here again!

Homosexual

Buhari followers in any party must be avoided like a plague. We all are living witnesses how terribly Nigerians have suffered under his watch. Anyone elected who is his ally is almost certain to follow in his footsteps. Who wants Fulani herdsmen killings to continue? Who wants insecurity to continue unattended to?

What sort of example does this represent especially for the young? The Sijuwades know the rest. Electricity transformers can make a lot of difference though.