zetdee: rossiki. very smart and loves his people

Ok

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I saw this fashion style on facebook and they are asking of the name.it's trendy and I will like to know more about it.please help me out.

Acidosis: You need to edit your topic to: Popular personalities on Politics, Health & Romance sections


Where is Onila?
How about guys on Religion section, Properties, Education, Entertaiment?? etc..

The most popular personality will definitely be on the most active sections viz politics,health and romance.check your views,topics for further clarification.

kilimanjaro: I have an instinctive feeling that this OP is an Old Member and one of Dayokano's rivals who hate him with a passion, thus her reason for creating this thread and username.

Old member how ? Didn't you read my opening post besides why did you have to make it all about him when I listed almost 20 names ? Stop being paranoid!

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It's so bad seeing how these companies' policies in the search for oil have caused so much miseries for Nigeria and Africa.

The Secret of the Seven Sisters
Last updated: 12 April 2013



A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.
On August 28, 1928, in the Scottish highlands, began the secret story of oil.

Three men had an appointment at Achnacarry Castle - a Dutchman, an American and an Englishman.

The Dutchman was Henry Deterding, a man nicknamed the Napoleon of Oil, having exploited a find in Sumatra. He joined forces with a rich ship owner and painted Shell salesman and together the two men founded Royal Dutch Shell.

The American was Walter C. Teagle and he represents the Standard Oil Company, founded by John D. Rockefeller at the age of 31 - the future Exxon. Oil wells, transport, refining and distribution of oil - everything is controlled by Standard oil.

The Englishman, Sir John Cadman, was the director of the Anglo-Persian oil Company, soon to become BP. On the initiative of a young Winston Churchill, the British government had taken a stake in BP and the Royal Navy switched its fuel from coal to oil. With fuel-hungry ships, planes and tanks, oil became "the blood of every battle".

The new automobile industry was developing fast, and the Ford T was selling by the million. The world was thirsty for oil, and companies were waging a merciless contest but the competition was making the market unstable.

That August night, the three men decided to stop fighting and to start sharing out the world's oil. Their vision was that production zones, transport costs, sales prices - everything would be agreed and shared. And so began a great cartel, whose purpose was to dominate the world, by controlling its oil.

Four others soon joined them, and they came to be known as the Seven Sisters -  - the biggest oil companies in the world.

In the first episode, we travel across the Middle East, through both time and space.

"We waged the Iran-Iraq war and I say we waged it, because one country had to be used to destroy the other. As they already benefit from the oil bonanza, and they’re building up financal reserves, from time to time they have to be bled."

- Xavier Houzel, an Oil trader

Throughout the region's modern history, since the discovery of oil, the Seven Sisters have sought to control the balance of power.

They have supported monarchies in Iran and Saudi Arabia, opposed the creation of OPEC, profiting from the Iran-Iraq war, leading to the ultimate destruction of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

The Seven Sisters were always present, and almost always came out on top.

Since that notorious meeting at Achnacarry Castle on August 28, 1928, they have never ceased to plot, to plan and to scheme.

At the end of the 1960s, the Seven Sisters, the major oil companies, controlled 85 percent of the world's oil reserves. Today, they control just 10 percent.

New hunting grounds are therefore required, and the Sisters have turned their gaze towards Africa. With peak oil, wars in the Middle East, and the rise in crude prices, Africa is the oil companies' new battleground.

"Everybody thought there could be oil in Sudan but nobody knew anything. It was revealed through exploration by the American company Chevron, towards the end of the 70s. And that was the beginning of the second civil war, which went on until 2002. It lasted for 19 years and cost a million and a half lives and the oil business was at the heart of it."

- Gerard Prunier, a historian

But the real story, the secret story of oil, begins far from Africa.

In their bid to dominate Africa, the Sisters installed a king in Libya, a dictator in Gabon, fought the nationalisation of oil resources in Algeria, and through corruption, war and assassinations, brought Nigeria to its knees.

Oil may be flowing into the holds of huge tankers, but in Lagos, petrol shortages are chronic.

The country's four refineries are obsolete and the continent's main oil exporter is forced to import refined petrol - a paradox that reaps fortunes for a handful of oil companies.

Encouraged by the companies, corruption has become a system of government - some $50bn are estimated to have 'disappeared' out of the $350bn received since independence.

But new players have now joined the great oil game.

China, with its growing appetite for energy, has found new friends in Sudan, and the Chinese builders have moved in. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is proud of his co-operation with China - a dam on the Nile, roads, and stadiums.

In order to export 500,000 barrels of oil a day from the oil fields in the South - China financed and built the Heglig pipeline connected to Port Sudan - now South Sudan's precious oil is shipped through North Sudan to Chinese ports.

In a bid to secure oil supplies out of Libya, the US, the UK and the Seven Sisters made peace with the once shunned Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, until he was killed during the Libyan uprising of 2011, but the flow of Libyan oil remains uninterrupted.

In need of funds for rebuilding, Libya is now back to pumping more than a million barrels of oil per day. And the Sisters are happy to oblige.

The second part of this special series can be seen from Thursday, April 11, at the following times GMT: Thursday: 2000; Friday: 1200; Saturday: 0100; Sunday: 0600; Monday: 2000; Tuesday: 1200; Wednesday: 0100; Thursday: 0600.


http://aljazeera.com/story/201344105231487582


It's airing live on al-jazeera for those who want to watch.

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eklassical: Yuh v done ur Home work well...... Buh u omitted som papas n mamas in some forums!!

If they are active,I would have noted them for the little time I have been around.thanks anyway

Creamish:

U follow EVERYTHING? ?



. . wow!

Well to an extent,I do.

Alaafia l‘oro:
Anybody who‘s cosmopolitan will definitely know all the guys up there. But you don‘t write names of folks who are running things in ‘travel‘, ‘family‘ etc... May be you are not in tune with events in those section.

Ifyalways is cool too.

Creamish: hmm . . by my definition of "popular", i shuld know all these guyz . .not just 4 of dem

It means you have not been following everything on nairaland.

I am new here even though I have been passing by just to read and I sort of know how things go nairaland after checking many posts for over 2 years.

After some reading,I found out some names are being mentioned every now and then and I like to air my opinion about them.

Seun: he's the owner of Nairaland and I guess that's why he's being mentioned everytime.

Mukina2 : she's a super mod who pushes every post to the frontpage.

Afam4eva : He's a moderator in the politics section and he's always been attacked for being a tribal mod.keep it up my brother.

Bluetooth : This guy is the biggest anti-igbo personality on nairaland.he attacks igbo on every post while he prouds his yoruba tribe as the best in Nigeria.

Dayokanu : this guy is irritating and another big tribalist in the politics section.I think he's the same person as bluetooth.

Jarus : a good mod that brought innovation to the politics section.

Sexkillz : This guy is awesome and has transformed the romance section with his unique ideas.he's also involved with a US based nairalander,my sister ogugua.

Idowuogbo : Also popular in the romance section,her posts are awesome and she commands a lot of followership there.

Ileke-idi : this lady is also good.I got to know her during the valentine period when she introduced the voice notes for lovers to send shout out on Nairaland.

Garrix7 : this is a bad nice guy who spearheaded the garri revolution on Nairaland to challenge alleged high-handedness of the moderators.kudos brother.

190 : Known as the ladies' man in the romance section.this guy also command a lot of admiration on nairaland.

Dominique : She is a moderator in the health section and she's doing thing there.

Joagbaje : I admire this guy a lot with the way he revives online spirituality in christain.may god bless you sir.

Beaf : this guy is awesome in the politics section especially during the election period.though I haven't seen him in a while.

Kobojunkie : this female can be classed as the most intelligent female on nairaland.she takes on anybody and delivers nicely.

Gbawe : I admire this guy and the way he debates.though the pdp boys sees him an extreme opposition.

Sincere nigerian : this guy is smoking hot.I knew about him through his posts on government projects which he informs us on nairaland.

Feel free to add yours.thanks


Happy to be finally registered as a nairalander after 2 years of standing by.