rozu4luv:

right now am in kogi but i don't think i will be dere in five yrs time

i'd wish aldof hitler was still alive, Africa would just have been a FARMLAND!

Southafrica> maze
Kenya> cows
Ghana> oilpalm
then Nigeria> PIGS, etc

Arkison:

People die, no matter what happened. If you pray, build tsunami warning systems,

Disaster always happen and they don't give a warning.

Any warning of impending disaster is just scientific fantasy

5 years is even too short to start building another dam on the Benue River.

Where will the gov't take 40 million people to?

Let nature take care of itself.

The shear arrongancy of human that they can control nature make me sick.

Earthquakes, floods, famine, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, volcanoes, epidemics are all nature's way of maitaining the balance. The moment mankind started inventing stuff to reduce the death of human population that is the day our population started exploding. At the begining of 1900, it is estimated there exists just about a 1 billion people on earth. But within hundred years it is now 7 billion. If we keep manufacturing things and producing vaccines and medicine trying to keep people longer and producing more babies then we are just postponing the calamity day.

Arkison:


Earthquakes, floods, famine, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, volcanoes, epidemics are all nature's way of maitaining the balance. The moment mankind started inventing stuff to reduce the death of human population that is the day our population started exploding. At the begining of 1900, it is estimated there exists just about a 1 billion people on earth. But within hundred years it is now 7 billion. If we keep manufacturing things and producing vaccines and medicine trying to keep people longer and producing more babies then we are just postponing the calamity day.

Outstrip:

Is it not this same lake/volcano that wiped out thousands of people in the 90s. This is scary because saying it will affect these states only can only be a joke. It will affect the whole nation. I really just want to cry. Why does Nigeria always have to look like a failure. How can there be something this serious and there is no plan in place to do anything

pete:

@honiri01, I saw that post that you quoted and I wasn't sure what to think of that argument. I must say that, it has some merit. The earth has a way of taking care of itself. I remember my environmental law class many years ago. The prof. painted a very gloomy picture, but today, it's obvious that, some of the argument for doomsday no longer stand.
  I do not think,that it's the plan of God to wipe out poor Nigerians. I also think that, we have a way or mitigating the harshness of nature. Guess that's why we build houses with roofs, hence we would just allow the sun to shine on us and the rain to wet us later. So, we could very well control the waves, storms and volcs. We'll not stop them from happening, but we could stop them from impacting us adversely.

honeric01:

so 40 million people should perish in Nigeria? are Nigerians the people prolonging lifespan? they said we no dey even grow reach 50, so why should we wey no dey reach 50 lose plenty people like that?

mr.official:


Mr man, you don't seem to get it.

You too can imagine, 40million people naija alone. mhen, why we dey born self?

Anyhow, do things like this happened 2000 years back?


They lived long, but now it seems just like the earth is over populated.

God is not sleeping, I don't know what to say.

and now different diseases out there, fcking epidemics.

goggs:

i dont think that report is 100 percent accurate. dont get me wrong lake nyos exists, it did kill people in the 80's. i have been following the story on the net and even on national geographic. 1st the lake is as a result of water in a volcanic caldera not exactly a 'dam' in the true sense. itss being fed underground by volcanic gasses. most danger is from the cabon monoxide that will be release evenn b.y the caldera wall falling into the lake stirring the water. more people are likely to die from that as the gas is very dense and will hug the ground for miles. if the wall collapses totally more will die. if the lake contains 5million liters its just 5,000 m2. thats not much. its equivillent to a large city water works (adiyan water works may be) definitely not enough to submerge all these states mentioned and to think it will submmerge Markurdi forever!!? that incredulous! dunno kno it seems someoone wants to stampede the government into releasing huge sums for , well u can guess. Lake Nyoos is a threat but not t o this level. take a look at thhe lake t hrough google earth or search wikipedia. if it were that much of a threat plenty world scientist would have decended here making once in a life time study. if[b] its that bad how come the camerounians are silient. shei the lake is in their country.[/b] i hope it will not be billions galore. seroiusly though it is dangerous for many nigerians living near the lake around taraba, benue, and cross river[color=][/color]

nex:

I abandoned Chemistry as a course because of this Lake Nyos incident that happened in the '80s and the way most chemistry textbooks just ridiculously explained it away. At that point in time, I didn't know what really happened in Lake Nyos, all I knew that the story of the lake overturning to release Carbon Dioxide was cooked up.

There was a time when South Africa and Israel developed Nuclear Weapons. Where do you all think those weapons were tested? You think Israel has untested Nuclear Warheads?

The President of Cameroun knows the deal he struck with the governments of Israel and RSA in 1986 to test Thermonuclear Weapons in the lakes around that area. Nigeria should not be made to pay for the long term effects of their scheming. You people should stop making Nigeria look bad ALL THE TIME.

What the Federal Government should do is issue a very strong warning to the government of Cameroun informing them that since it was a military exercise that led to this whole dilemma, if the government of Cameroun and their cohorts do not handle this matter, if the dam gives way and kills Nigerians, it will be seen as a military attack 23 years in the making, which will attract full military retaliation.

The way you guys are shouting at the Nigerian Government rather than the Camerounian Government is really amazing to me. It is like citizens of the USA insulting their government because if Malaria is not eradicated from Africa, it could later spread to the USA and kill lots of people. Should the USA shoulder this responsibility or they should prevail on our Government to take care of its business.


Please, let's support our government in issuing a strong worded statement to the Camerounian President and we should also back our government in any action it takes against Cameroun in defence of our citizens.

They know what they did there 23 years ago, we shouldn't pay billions for it.