Blue3k:


1. Thousands of people were employed there and they opperated ten years and you claim it's too expensive.

2. Start a mining cooperative them everyone benefits simple. The government offers small scale license and stuff for coperprtives. All this with low interest funding for machinery.

Your proposal means nothing. Do you have skin in game to employ people you don't need. Do you know the companies margins.

My proposal means nothing and yours means everything...."Employ as many as they can" is simple English. If you understood it, you wouldn't ask if I knew the companies' planned margins.
If you own a business, you would know what it means to locate your office close to your assets to avoid extra costs associated with logistics. I'm a bit disappointed you didn't consider that extra costs when HQs and refineries are cited far from the oil fields...They're still making profits, you stated.
I have read most of your comments on this thread. You seem to be happy with the police killing people for reasons avoidable.
So go on killing the locals until you've chased everyone out of the location. Next start your mining business without the locals, then tell us how well you fared few years from now.

Lastly, if you can, stop using demeaning words on fellow nairalanders. It doesn't make you clever.

Blue3k:



10 years and you can't get a licences. What excuse for these miners have?

1. a man who is barely able to feed his family cannot afford a mining licence. It is not cheap.

2. Licences would be awarded a few companies for the entire area, leaving several people without the rights to mine in the area.

Hence my proposal for the mining company to employ as many as they can.
Since you are so smart, apart from arresting thousands of illegal miners, with children to feed, and put them out of business, what do you propose?

Blue3k:


Nonsense write up. These guys were here for a while we are and didn't care to get licensed. What stopped them this past decade after making this tax free money from going legitimate. Mining companies in Nigeria are already requires by law Cirorate social responsibility. They do not owe these guys jobs. They paid their taxes and applied for their mining permit.

Yiur second point is daft as first. If you actually read story and follow up story they told miners multiple times to clear out. The refused and continued their illegal activity. They were trespassing on someone's else's mining site. Their structures were illegally placed so if it's destroyed tough luck.

They were given multiple chances to leave peacefully before force was used. The latest update says one policeman went missing after incident. I don't where you got idea you can engage in criminal activity and violently resist arrest without endanging your life. You want to sympathize with criminal elements.

Mr. "know it all",

Your commando style of doing things will not work on every occasion. You still haven't learnt from your experience in the Niger Delta region. You were issued mining and exploration licences. You paid your taxes and royalties, engaged several security personnel, you owed the communities nothing, yet you could not operate in certain areas of the Niger Delta in the heat of the crisis.
I know a company that tried a different approach in communities notorious for violence and kidnappings. They engaged the community youths actively on their jobs, even when they're not under obligation to do so. Needless to add, they spent a substantial amount of their profits helping the communities. And while your companies were running away from the region for security reasons, they were busy making money in peace. Now who is smarter?
Your so-called criminal elements, could live a responsible life, if given a chance. You need an open mind to understand that. Stop being dogmatic! Otherwise you'll end up wasting huge sums of money deploying security personnel, and many years down the line the company is yet make profit.

Blue3k:


What story are u people reading. The cops reasonable it was miners that acted foolishly. You guys just want to mindless complain about cops even when it doesn't make sense.

There are smart ways of handling sensitive issues like these. But then, the average Nigerian mind might not know it.

First, the mining company awarded the mining licence should have seen these local miners as stake holders. Accommodate them by offering many of them training, jobs and contracts when they mechanize the mining operations. Then people will not think they're taking away their daily bread.
Instead, they opted for the typical way Nigerian companies do things; 'get the police to drive them out, and I will take everything that's left'...SELFISHNESS AND GREED... You companies know little about corporate social responsibility (CSR)...I could go on and on...but bottom line is: when you place maximum profit above (CSR), your business is bound to run into problems.

Second, the level of incompetence of our police has again been laid bare. Instead of destroying properties, why not arrest a few individuals at a time at different times? The news would spread, and you'll discover number of illegal miners would be decreasing with time until you get control of the whole area. If the situation escalates, a trained officer can discern when an irate crowd is gathering momentum thus leave immediately, come back another day with reinforced team and adequate equipment for controlling large crowds. Instead, the average police man thinks such moments are times to show civilians he can shoot to kill...I weep for you people...

Dronedude:
The officer for call for back up now...

How would he call for back-up when he's making an illegal arrest.
...You're arresting a citizen but you won't tell him the reason for his arrest. For goodness sake, who trains these officers?

Read your comments again and tell us if it makes any sense.

Were those motivational speakers born into Forbes list? Did most of them, like Oprah Winfrey, not start from humble beginnings?

alexistaiwo:
Everyone who has an internet connection is claiming relationship and business expert these days.



The only motivational speaker I know is anyone on Forbes list or an influential individual who has done and seen it all.

I think it's OK. But copying popular lyrics when he's going international is not good for his career. He might be forced to share a large chunk of his profits...

Differential:
I don't like it. Not original and nothing to write home about

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with the lyrics and video. He also used the exact name of one of my favorite New Edition songs called "Cool it down" and he used Blackstreet's lyrics for the chorus. I hope he won't get sued. Mr. P, try and be more original.

Kai! If only Ajaokuta steel was ready....

jeeqaa7:
wait ..gimme 1

lol... You can't be serious