tomitrace:
War destroys cities:
Every Nigeria City or aspiring city should learn something from the Collapse of Warri as Oil City👇👇👇

Warri was a big industrial hub in the 70's - 90's.

Warri Refinery, NNPC, DSC, Delta Glass, Shell, Chevron, Schlumberger, Dunlop, Agip, Saipem, Halliburton were in full operation back then. Escravos & Forcados were at their peak.

The city thrived. The city was full of zeal and zestful activities. People living outside hardcore Warri called themselves Wafarians because of propinquity to Warri even though they were not Wafarians. To be a Wafarian was to belong to supposedly a unique lifestyle.

Multinational/Local Banks were present Citibank, FBN, ACB, Savannah Bank.

Business activities thrived. Warri port was a beehive of economic activities

Entertainment/Night life was at its peak, Musicians, Live bands at Palmgroove Hotel, Comedians held their sway: Fela, legendary Don Baker, Majek Fashek, Emma Grey, Oritz Wiliki, Rex Lawson were a few of many of the entertainers that made Warri ebullient. Lido, Zina, etc were comparable to their ilks anywhere.

The town was full of life and it thrived.

McDermot road was busy with Maritime activities and contractors. Kingsway Mall offered anything sold in Lagos at that time.

Joma & Mosheshe were big fish distributors across the Niger Delta.

Rubber produced locally, was used to produce plastics and tyres.

The town grew in size and became a conurbation with people coming from all over the country to settle down in Warri for economic activities.

The Airports were super busy, Escravos, Forcados & Warri Airport. The Warri Airport was even relocated to Osubi for expansion.

Warri was revelling in its glory. Warri Port was fully operational and served as an economic booster for the city. It served businesses in Warri, Benin, Asaba & Onitsha. The Port created huge employment opportunities for locals and the state.

Things started to go downhill from the late 90's. The community leaders and youth chairmen began to fight themselves over control/sharing formula for royalties that came from oil & businesses from settlers.

Itsekiri, Urhobo & Ijaw leaders & youths started fighting each other. The bloody fight started around 1999 and lasted for years till 2003/2004.

The community leaders started imposing local taxes called "Deve" on all companies, industries and local businesses, buildings & projects.

Little by little, the companies frustrated, started leaving.

This continued throughout the early 2000's till 2010. The companies kept on leaving, one after the other. The companies layed off their employees. Unemployment rose.

More companies left for PH, Lagos, Akwa Ibom. They layed off more staff. Unemployment increased still.

Today all that is left in Warri, is a shadow of its glorious past.

95% of all the big companies in Warri had either left or closed down.

Most of the young people have left Warri.

The ones left are driving Keke, doing P.O.S, Spa or Boutique, Beer parlour or doing hookup.

There's peace now, but the damage the greedy community leaders did to Warri, still lingers on and is almost irredeemable at this point.

Do not assume that your city can not be destroyed if it toes the same route Warri followed. Warri leaders did not ever believe that Warri will be this economically empty today while they were fighting then. Learn from Warri and protect our economies

Have you asked why big eeconomies like US, China,etc will never allow war in their countries?

We must learn and avoid things that will trigger war in our country no matter how strong we believe we are. Businesses and investors go where there is peace than where there is war.

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I hope Lagosians are reading. This is the end product of 'our land' syndrome. Eventually it will be yours....alone. Under democracy other states have advanced in leaps and bounds. And when they attain the threshold of infrastructural development there will be migration.

jamesversion:
In Nigerias Dog eat Dog society, Warri's loss is another city's gain.

rivers state benefitted from warri lost.

IT IS WHT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE CANNOT THINK STRAIGHT WITH NO INNOVATION AND BECLOUDED WITH DIRTY POLITICS WITH ABSURD RIVALRY.

It is not only LEADERSHIP problem, rather the FOLLOWERS are equally complicit in the issues bedeviling Nigeria as a whole.

THOUGHTLESS SELFISH AND UNSETTLING.

They've simply being plagued with thieving visionless PDP governors.

PrinceMajestic:
shut up

I'm sure you're one of those useless Uvwie youths that go around company to company, shop to shop and building site to building site looking to extort money from honest businessmen, investors and property developers. I totally get why you'd be riled up by my comment. Na useless mentality like una own dey destroy Warri.

tomitrace:
War destroys cities:
Every Nigeria Cit

Nostalgic.

I can't forget them days growing up in Warri while my dad managed one of Mosheshe's subsidiaries.

Airport Road/Ugborikoko was my school base while we lived at Okumagba Avenue.

There was the huge "Delta Palace Hotel" opposite my school (Ugborikoko sec. School) and flanked by the beautifully and well-planned Bendel estate...kaii

I remember how we'd visit my uncle who was the head of the Shell Police in their estate, I would always refuse to go back home with my dad. You'd think you were in heaven...gosh
Warrior was the bomb those days. The last time I visited Warri, I shook my head in tears and disbelief.

Where are all the huge warehouses and companies on Airport Road?

It's sad how they ruined my city and country..so sad.

Haaa farm kitchen that here.. Baba i hail you oo see name wen u mentioned

CodeTemplar:
Rat faced mofos think life is about badness. You forgot Farm Kitchen close to old airport when mentioning entertainment spots.

Warri ti lule. Casted city.

Moderators of nairaland so you guys decided to harm Delta State for no reason especially my region, allowing people from poorer regions and poorer states to be insulting my people here for no good reason? You guys Yoruba and ibo tribal war is now so boring that it's now Delta and my people you all have decided to start insulting for no reason?

shortgun:

Really?
You couldn't relate the write up also to Lagos on account of what happened in the last election and threats to non natives and their businesses?

The bigotry in you won't let you?

For your information. The SE agitators can go back to sadeast with peace. Giant international companies are the major priorities and Lagos government kept prioritizing them.

Ask yourself, how many indigenous/local properly registered companies are in Lagos

How many of such local companies are owned by chest beaters

Pls respect yourself and stop thinking that Igbo has contributed upto 10% to Lagos economic development

Reference:


I hope Lagosians are reading. This is the end product of 'our land' syndrome. Eventually it will be yours....alone. Under democracy other states have advanced in leaps and bounds. And when they attain the threshold of infrastructural development there will be migration.

Every state should be reading in that case. There is no state as free as Lagos for people to do business and buy property. Look in the mirror.

Jefferyhi86:
Haaa farm kitchen that here.. Baba i hail you oo see name wen u mentioned

everything about that Warri na that year that year. Nothing dey again. G-boys and few legit people left are buying Osubi like VI and Gwagwalada.

Despite all the rubbish wey una dey spill for here warri n rest of Delta central still dey generate more revenue to FG wen Dem take dey feed una miserable poor states. We've fed you all and you have over fed to the extent you can now insult us that feeds you when your poor states that has no oil generates nothing. Shameless scums from poor states

Ireportlive:





James Ibori vs Bola Ahmed Tinubu

When Econet came to Nigeria, they met with the political class to help them facilitate their operation lisence and Set-up

They met James Ibori who insisted on collecting millions of dollars as bribe

They met Bola Ahmed Tinubu who invested Lagos revenue in their company helping them setup and making profits in billions for Lagos State

When ExxonMobil wanted to build an headquarters, Bola Ahmed Tinubu quickly made available land in Lekki and as the company treasurer he ensured the building was constructed in Lagos

Sometimes it takes strong leadership like that of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Jagaban of Borgu GCFR to control wayward youths and engage them like they did with MC Oluomo and his goons in Lagos

.

Treasurer of Mobil Ogbomoso branch abi?

tuoyoojo:
Warri has went the way of sapele. The last time I was there, hmmm....it was an eyesore. I shell of its former self

The most annoying thing is the "deve" and the agitation of the youths

People who do not want to work hard but want to live large because a company is in your locality

They were quick to say to those companies if you are not paying deve, leave!!. Now they have left. Who is suffering the brunt

Like what someone said, one man's loss it another's gain.

It would take a miracle for warri to get back to its former glory

Unfortunately successive delta government has not been pulling their weight in development in warri.

. Sapele own is even worst because the only company u find here is SEPLAT and I’m sure they too will leave soon and the people keep investing in building hotels nothing apart from hotel u can find here

I love this thread.
Thanks!
Peace is priceless.

Kingcalls:
There was no war in warri... it was greed and non inclusion of outsiders that were helping the city thrive .... same thing can happen to lagos with the way things are going.. u keep on burning the market of the igbos and telling them to leave lagos... same way warrians told foreign investors to leave their land if they don't do what the indigenes wanted...of cos , they had enough and left... that's black man for u, no sense at all... only experts at destroying chances... if Igbos leave lagos , most big companies will move away from lagos cos they are somehow tied to these igbo business

There was no war in Warri? Are you kidding me? The war started in 1996 when Abacha FG tried to move LG HQ to Ogidigben. The fracas that followed was definitely a war

Ichabod,the glory has gone!

Image123:
They've simply being plagued with thieving visionless PDP governors.

shut up

Off point! Will you Keep kwayet?

Ireportlive:





James Ibori vs Bola Ahmed Tinubu

When Econet came to Nigeria, they met with the political class to help them facilitate their operation lisence and Set-up

They met James Ibori who insisted on collecting millions of dollars as bribe

They met Bola Ahmed Tinubu who invested Lagos revenue in their company helping them setup and making profits in billions for Lagos State

When ExxonMobil wanted to build an headquarters, Bola Ahmed Tinubu quickly made available land in Lekki and as the company treasurer he ensured the building was constructed in Lagos

Sometimes it takes strong leadership like that of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Jagaban of Borgu GCFR to control wayward youths and engage them like they did with MC Oluomo and his goons in Lagos

.

sageb:


The sad reality
Delta steel company is now moribund

DSC becoming moribund was nothing to do with Warri crisis. It was mismanaged. Simple. Former MDs like Tachia Jooji, Abe and Okoye and the FG mismanaged that edifice until it was grounded

Can someone get a loud speaker and put it on Oluomo's ears so that he can hear this

Ireportlive:





James Ibori vs Bola Ahmed Tinubu

When Econet came to Nigeria, they met with the political class to help them facilitate their operation lisence and Set-up

They met James Ibori who insisted on collecting millions of dollars as bribe

They met Bola Ahmed Tinubu who invested Lagos revenue in their company helping them setup and making profits in billions for Lagos State

When ExxonMobil wanted to build an headquarters, Bola Ahmed Tinubu quickly made available land in Lekki and as the company treasurer he ensured the building was constructed in Lagos

Sometimes it takes strong leadership like that of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Jagaban of Borgu GCFR to control wayward youths and engage them like they did with MC Oluomo and his goons in Lagos

.

Do you know you are big fat liar. Exxon Mobil HQ was buiilt pre 1999. Haaaaaaa Fear God oooo and stop these lies and whitewashing of Tinubu's image. That was how one guy lied that water house in Ijora was built by Tinubu whereas it was Marwa that commissioned it

tomitrace:
War destroys cities:
Every Nigeria City or aspiring city should learn something from the Collapse of Warri as Oil City👇👇👇

Warri was a big industrial hub in the 70's - 90's.

Warri Refinery, NNPC, DSC, Delta Glass, Shell, Chevron, Schlumberger, Dunlop, Agip, Saipem, Halliburton were in full operation back then. Escravos & Forcados were at their peak.

The city thrived. The city was full of zeal and zestful activities. People living outside hardcore Warri called themselves Wafarians because of propinquity to Warri even though they were not Wafarians. To be a Wafarian was to belong to supposedly a unique lifestyle.

Multinational/Local Banks were present Citibank, FBN, ACB, Savannah Bank.

Business activities thrived. Warri port was a beehive of economic activities

Entertainment/Night life was at its peak, Musicians, Live bands at Palmgroove Hotel, Comedians held their sway: Fela, legendary Don Baker, Majek Fashek, Emma Grey, Oritz Wiliki, Rex Lawson were a few of many of the entertainers that made Warri ebullient. Lido, Zina, etc were comparable to their ilks anywhere.

The town was full of life and it thrived.

McDermot road was busy with Maritime activities and contractors. Kingsway Mall offered anything sold in Lagos at that time.

Joma & Mosheshe were big fish distributors across the Niger Delta.

Rubber produced locally, was used to produce plastics and tyres.

The town grew in size and became a conurbation with people coming from all over the country to settle down in Warri for economic activities.

The Airports were super busy, Escravos, Forcados & Warri Airport. The Warri Airport was even relocated to Osubi for expansion.

Warri was revelling in its glory. Warri Port was fully operational and served as an economic booster for the city. It served businesses in Warri, Benin, Asaba & Onitsha. The Port created huge employment opportunities for locals and the state.

Things started to go downhill from the late 90's. The community leaders and youth chairmen began to fight themselves over control/sharing formula for royalties that came from oil & businesses from settlers.

Itsekiri, Urhobo & Ijaw leaders & youths started fighting each other. The bloody fight started around 1999 and lasted for years till 2003/2004.

The community leaders started imposing local taxes called "Deve" on all companies, industries and local businesses, buildings & projects.

Little by little, the companies frustrated, started leaving.

This continued throughout the early 2000's till 2010. The companies kept on leaving, one after the other. The companies layed off their employees. Unemployment rose.

More companies left for PH, Lagos, Akwa Ibom. They layed off more staff. Unemployment increased still.

Today all that is left in Warri, is a shadow of its glorious past.

95% of all the big companies in Warri had either left or closed down.

Most of the young people have left Warri.

The ones left are driving Keke, doing P.O.S, Spa or Boutique, Beer parlour or doing hookup.

There's peace now, but the damage the greedy community leaders did to Warri, still lingers on and is almost irredeemable at this point.

Do not assume that your city can not be destroyed if it toes the same route Warri followed. Warri leaders did not ever believe that Warri will be this economically empty today while they were fighting then. Learn from Warri and protect our economies

Have you asked why big eeconomies like US, China,etc will never allow war in their countries?

We must learn and avoid things that will trigger war in our country no matter how strong we believe we are. Businesses and investors go where there is peace than where there is war.

Follow us on This Is Nigeria

Everything you have said I agree with without question.

However, l will add the final nail in the coffin ⚰️ if Warri city ,was when the evil be schemer and manipulative artful Dodger.

With blatant disregard for demographics and urban economic development, decidef unilaterally to pla e capital of Delta state in his wife's small town then Asaba.

It was outright BLATANT NEPOTISM.

Asaba is on the border of the state , at the time was not as developed and or as populous as Warri in the first instance. But in addition Sapele, Agbor, Ughelli, Abraka were much more economically developed and with larger populations.

But look at wher the Niger Delta oil money is going and developing its Asaba. The once sleepy small Asaba has become the biggest City in Delta state.

The Uhrobo Ijaw and Itsekiri leaders have FAILED the people.

dominique:
My friend from Warri told me told me this much. Up to five different factions will be on the companies' neck demanding for their share of the levies. By the time the companies are heaving a sigh of relief that they have seen the last of them, another set will emerge and make more demands. As the fathers are demanding for money, the sons are stealing equipments belonging to these companies, destroying their sites and demanding for their own. Now all the companies have left their land for them and unemployment is now the order of the day. This is what greed and lack of foresight does to people.

you people are not being fair. What brought about all this insulting thread on my people? Who is behind this stupid thread? It's obvious somebody paid to have this thread pushed to FP in an attempt to embarrass peace loving Deltans. Shame on you all, our region produce oil that feeds Nigeria. Leave it for us like that

Painful but the truth and my heart bleeds. The Elite do not care and they were the cause, Warri does not take last but in this case they took more than last. The place is filled with Tricycle. The Governor wants to be VP and do same to the entire country.

Ireportlive:





James Ibori vs Bola Ahmed Tinubu

When Econet came to Nigeria, they met with the political class to help them facilitate their operation lisence and Set-up

They met James Ibori who insisted on collecting millions of dollars as bribe

They met Bola Ahmed Tinubu who invested Lagos revenue in their company helping them setup and making profits in billions for Lagos State

When ExxonMobil wanted to build an headquarters, Bola Ahmed Tinubu quickly made available land in Lekki and as the company treasurer he ensured the building was constructed in Lagos

Sometimes it takes strong leadership like that of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Jagaban of Borgu GCFR to control wayward youths and engage them like they did with MC Oluomo and his goons in Lagos

.

When you want to lie, please lie with sense. Exxon Mobil built that office in 1987 and it was renovated in 2012. Please stop all this propaganda and lies. Tinubu never gave Exxon Mobil land in Lekki to build their HQ. Haaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fear God ooooooo.

https://www.archnet.org/sites/4843

Warri, filled with youths who are ready to fight at any given opportunity. That city was my home for just 2 and half years. Was working peacefully one day, when i was told that rioting boys had shattered my windshield. I had friends who used to run and abandon their cars on the road when the madness starts. i witnessed these boys fight and loot shoprite that year. wow! was so glad when i finally relocated from there. Warri, not a place to raise a family!

God punish all of una wey dey insult warri or Delta State. Can't u fuckas keep off our private affairs?

tomitrace:
War destroys cities:
Every Nigeria City or aspiring city should learn something from the Collapse of Warri as Oil City👇👇👇

Warri was a big industrial hub in the 70's - 90's.

Warri Refinery, NNPC, DSC, Delta Glass, Shell, Chevron, Schlumberger, Dunlop, Agip, Saipem, Halliburton were in full operation back then. Escravos & Forcados were at their peak.

The city thrived. The city was full of zeal and zestful activities. People living outside hardcore Warri called themselves Wafarians because of propinquity to Warri even though they were not Wafarians. To be a Wafarian was to belong to supposedly a unique lifestyle.

Multinational/Local Banks were present Citibank, FBN, ACB, Savannah Bank.

Business activities thrived. Warri port was a beehive of economic activities

Entertainment/Night life was at its peak, Musicians, Live bands at Palmgroove Hotel, Comedians held their sway: Fela, legendary Don Baker, Majek Fashek, Emma Grey, Oritz Wiliki, Rex Lawson were a few of many of the entertainers that made Warri ebullient. Lido, Zina, etc were comparable to their ilks anywhere.

The town was full of life and it thrived.

McDermot road was busy with Maritime activities and contractors. Kingsway Mall offered anything sold in Lagos at that time.

Joma & Mosheshe were big fish distributors across the Niger Delta.

Rubber produced locally, was used to produce plastics and tyres.

The town grew in size and became a conurbation with people coming from all over the country to settle down in Warri for economic activities.

The Airports were super busy, Escravos, Forcados & Warri Airport. The Warri Airport was even relocated to Osubi for expansion.

Warri was revelling in its glory. Warri Port was fully operational and served as an economic booster for the city. It served businesses in Warri, Benin, Asaba & Onitsha. The Port created huge employment opportunities for locals and the state.

Things started to go downhill from the late 90's. The community leaders and youth chairmen began to fight themselves over control/sharing formula for royalties that came from oil & businesses from settlers.

Itsekiri, Urhobo & Ijaw leaders & youths started fighting each other. The bloody fight started around 1999 and lasted for years till 2003/2004.

The community leaders started imposing local taxes called "Deve" on all companies, industries and local businesses, buildings & projects.

Little by little, the companies frustrated, started leaving.

This continued throughout the early 2000's till 2010. The companies kept on leaving, one after the other. The companies layed off their employees. Unemployment rose.

More companies left for PH, Lagos, Akwa Ibom. They layed off more staff. Unemployment increased still.

Today all that is left in Warri, is a shadow of its glorious past.

95% of all the big companies in Warri had either left or closed down.

Most of the young people have left Warri.

The ones left are driving Keke, doing P.O.S, Spa or Boutique, Beer parlour or doing hookup.

There's peace now, but the damage the greedy community leaders did to Warri, still lingers on and is almost irredeemable at this point.

Do not assume that your city can not be destroyed if it toes the same route Warri followed. Warri leaders did not ever believe that Warri will be this economically empty today while they were fighting then. Learn from Warri and protect our economies

Have you asked why big eeconomies like US, China,etc will never allow war in their countries?

We must learn and avoid things that will trigger war in our country no matter how strong we believe we are. Businesses and investors go where there is peace than where there is war.

Follow us on This Is Nigeria

True story. My community, Aladja, host to DSC,B+B, Techni trade, Peter Man looking very empty now. I remember in those days by 5pm the community will start bubbling as workers close from work. As kids,we visit the camp white men were staying playing with their kids toy guns through the barbed wire fence.
It's all memories now...

Lagos will start tall for another century. MC Oluomo and his boys will never disturb anyone living or doing business in Lagos. So relax your mind.

Bridget95:
Can someone get a loud speaker and put it on Oluomo's ears so that he can hear this