1. The immediate implementation of the report of the 2014 National Conference report, failure of Nigeria will forcefully break-up.
2. President Buhari, the director-general of the State Secret Service and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Bayelsa state, Timipre Sylva should apologize to the people of the Niger Delta region and family of Late Chief DSP Alamieyesegha for killing him with intimidation and harassment because of his party affiliation.

3. The ownership of oil blocks in Nigeria must reflect 60% for the oil producing people and 40% for the non-oil producing people.

4. The only Nigerian Maritime University sited in the most appropriate and befitting place – Okerenkoko in Delta state, must start the 2015/2016 academic session immediately.
5. The minister of transportation, Rotimi Amechi should apologize to the Ijaws and the entire Niger Delta people for his careless and reckless statement about the citing of the University in Okerenko.

6. Ogoniland and and all oil polluted lands in the Niger Delta must be cleaned up, while compensation should be paid to all oil producing communities.

7. Radio Biafra director and Independent Peoples of Biafra leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, should be released unconditionally.

8. The Niger Delta Amnesty programme must be well funded and allowed to continue to run effectively.

9. All APC members indicted for corruption should be made to face trial like their counterparts in the Peoples Democratic Party.

10. All oil multi-nationals and foreign investors should observe this demands, as their business interest in the country will be first targeted.

Totally. If the brutes involved are graceful enough to know when meekness signifies strength and wisdom.

I see the government is starting with number six (6). let see how serious they are . To me no. 1 is vital to all Nigerians too .

Yes...in full

Hay Buhari mr president just close eyes and negotiate abeg we breed these people like this. We don't negotiate with terrorist but it makes sense to negotiate with this once because it a freedom fight now not religious.

Accept for the uncondition release of nnamdi kanu, someone should pls tell me what is wrong with their demand.

It's not even about those demands. The Government of Buhari could have used the approach of dialogue with all disgruntled elements. This at least would have shown the Government is not insensitive. But Buhari's hardline military approach has made a bad situation much worse

The current admin has already agreed to clean up ogoni land even before the bombings start.

But my concern now is who would clean up the pipelines been currently bombed? The NDA or the FG ?

Also item 8. The amnesty programme was never stopped in the first place.

Its meant to run to 2018 b4 it be reviewed, so why should it be among requests now failure of which bombing would continue ?

The president should implement the confab report?? ? Lol he is the president not the emperor.. Only the national assembly can do dat

Sylva has freedom as a citizen of Nigeria, if anyone should render apologies it's u and Jonathan for failing the people and the region leaders that have failed to develop the region
After all u take extra 13%

Ownership of oil well is a clear process and if u are interested bid for oil Wells, it's not difficult to get an oil block, stop lying to people, to set up an oil producing block will cost u over 3 billion dollars... Even the northerners that have oil Wells most of there Wells are not producing


Maritime institute is to be upgraded to a university and it still in the Niger Delta so this not a case

Ameachi owe no one any apologies he took the best decision for the country

Oil spillage cleaning is already in progress and it's a shame Jonathan couldn't do that for his people

Only the law court can free nnamdi Kanu, releasing him will mean he is above the law, he is being tried for treason, and that is not a billable offence so sorry... he will remain there

Armesty programme is on, but it won't go on for ever, any militants who can't use his money to do anything should blame him self, if he picks up arms again he should face the law, the way u will face the law when Nigerian army eventually catches u

The government is doing that already, sariki is facing charges right?? Or is he not an APC member?? Or u want ameachi?? Tell wike to publish his prob so we can force effcc to investigate ameachi if Wike really saw anything....

U want to attack foreign investors?? Lool u just want to die

The president should implement the confab report?? ? Lol he is the president not the emperor.. Only the national assembly can do dat

Sylva has freedom as a citizen of Nigeria, if anyone should render apologies it's u and Jonathan for failing the people and the region leaders that have failed to develop the region
After all u take extra 13%

Ownership of oil well is a clear process and if u are interested bid for oil Wells, it's not difficult to get an oil block, stop lying to people, to set up an oil producing block will cost u over 3 billion dollars... Even the northerners that have oil Wells most of there Wells are not producing


Maritime institute is to be upgraded to a university and it still in the Niger Delta so this not a case

Ameachi owe no one any apologies he took the best decision for the country

Oil spillage cleaning is already in progress and it's a shame Jonathan couldn't do that for his people

Only the law court can free nnamdi Kanu, releasing him will mean he is above the law, he is being tried for treason, and that is not a billable offence so sorry... he will remain there

Armesty programme is on, but it won't go on for ever, any militants who can't use his money to do anything should blame him self, if he picks up arms again he should face the law, the way u will face the law when Nigerian army eventually catches u

The government is doing that already, sariki is facing charges right?? Or is he not an APC member?? Or u want ameachi?? Tell wike to publish his prob so we can force effcc to investigate ameachi if Wike really saw anything....

U want to attack foreign investors?? Lool u just want to die

This demands are baseless and irrational, that's my conclusion

To think that atiku,danjuma ... own oil blocs beats my imagination. What has these people done for the region to benefit these gesture?


The rest demands are less pertinent to me. Release nmadi kanu? whodafvck is kanu? is he from ND region? is his course our course? what does biafra mean? is he a straight forward person?


Revoke all licenses from those criminal few from the north enjoying unprecedented wealth, ogoni clean-up, maritime university.. Finish

waxxydude:
To think that atiku,danjuma ... own oil blocs beats my imagination. What has these people done for the region to benefit these gesture?


The rest demands are less pertinent to me. Release nmadi kanu? whodafvck is kanu? is he from ND region? is his course our course? what does biafra mean? is he a straight forward person?



Revoke all licenses from those criminal few from the north enjoying unprecedented wealth, ogoni clean-up, maritime university.. Finish

Do u even know how oil blocks are awarded?? have u bothered to Google it??

Who stops Niger Deltans from owning oil blocks? ? We have over 100 oil blocks in Nigeria and we are looking for buyers. .. so please let that rest

As the controversies generated over which region controlled more of Nigeria’s oil assets intensify, the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has said that such controversies are baseless considering that oil blocks are awarded based on bids offered for them globally. Against this backdrop, the industry regulator noted that when such bid rounds are being conducted, the region of the bidders is not one of the prequalification for winning such oil blocks. The Director, DPR, Mr. Osten Olorunshola, who made the clarification last week in Lagos, said, “The Federal Government does not allocate oil blocks and marginal fields to individuals and corporations based on region or where they come from. So, DPR does not ask if an individual is from the North or South when allocating the fields.” Ownership controversies Pressed further, on which region owned more of Nigeria’s oil assets, Olorunshola, who spoke at the launch of the Nigeria Oil and Gas, NOG Intelligence, a weekly print and online industry newsletter, insisted that “The DPR has no records of 83 per cent Northern ownership of oil blocks anywhere.” According to him, Nigerians currently own 52 per cent of the country’s 173 active oil blocs, while foreign oil companies own 48 per cent. He added that of the total of 388 oil blocks in the country, only 173 of them have been awarded to individuals and corporations, while 215 blocks were yet to be awarded. Broken further, of the 173 so far awarded, Nigerians owned 90 blocks while foreigners owned 83 blocks. He, however, lamented that all the 90 blocks awarded to indigenous players account for only six per cent of the country’s total crude oil production, while the 83 awarded to foreign oil companies account for 94 per cent of the total output. Steering the hornets’ nest The Chairman, Senate Committee on Business and Rules, Senator Ita Enang, a forth night ago steered the hornets’ nest, when he alleged that 83 percent of Nigeria’s oil blocks were in the control of the northern region. This led to a series of claims and counter claims by various groups in the different geographical regions in the country, including activists and non-governmental organisations, NGOs. Many even called for a review of oil block awards. Even newspapers (not Vanguard) went agog with their own versions of the real oil block owners. However, DPR’s recent pronouncements on the issue that Nigerians own 80 oil bocks where foreigners had 83 have nullified every other previous pronouncements on the controversial oil blocks ownership, including the list of 77 oil blocks and their owners recently published by one of the dailies. Analysts are of the view that to end the controversy, the DPR should go a step further to publish the full list of the 173 oil blocks so far awarded, indicating who owned what, whether local or foreign. Poor indigenous output contribution Notwithstanding the fact that Nigerians owned the larger share of the nation’s oil assets, their contributions to total production as revealed by the DPR is abysmally poor. According to data provided by the regulator, Nigerians are producing about 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day, representing six per cent of the Nigeria’s total crude production; while foreign oil companies account for the bulk of 2.35 million bpd or 94 per cent of total output. He blamed this on the lackadaisical attitude of the Nigerian players towards the development of their blocks. He said that majority of them have not commenced any serious production activities on the oil blocks since they were awarded to them. He said, “It appears that people just want to own oil blocks and put it on their complimentary cards. We are not happy with that. It is absurd that six per cent of oil production is coming out of 90 leases. “Government decided to dig deeper as it was not so happy with the performance of the indigenous oil companies. That is the reason why government put in place the Marginal Fields policy,” he noted. He disclosed that about 24 marginal fields were allocated in 2003, and only six fields are doing well, while the rest have refused to develop theirs, adding that many are faced with litigations, funding constraints, non-bankable proposals, and a host of others issues. He said, “The major issue that negatively affected the production capacity of majority of the marginal field owners is the fact that the owners could not access funds. As at 2003, when the fields were awarded, Nigerian banks where in difficult situation, making it impossible for majority of them to give out loans. “Also, another challenge that served as a drawback to the marginal fields programme is the unending litigations by most of the parties the fields were awarded to. The bid rounds brought a lot of litigations, due to the fact that the parties were technically asked to merge before the fields will be awarded to them. Till today, majority of them are still in court and are yet to kick start the process of production on their fields.” The active and producing marginal fields are: · Asuokpu/Umutu field owned by Platform Petroleum · Ibigwe field by Walter Smith and Morris Petroleum · Uquo field by Frontier Oil · Ajapa field – Britania-U · Umusadege field by Midwestern Oil and Gas, and Suntrust · Obodogwa/Obodeti field by Pillar Oil Olorunshola further stated that of the five marginal fields that were awarded on a discretionary basis, only Oriental Energy owners of two of the fields – Okwok and Ebok fields; and Niger Delta Petroleum Development Company, owner of Ogbelle field are involved in active

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