While I agree that Oil Coys should relocate their HQ to Niger Delta, I must also admit that we have the duty of ensuring that the region is safe for these companies.
It is not enough for Ijaw groups and stakeholdera to spit fire against the REPS, what are they doing to dissuade Ijaw and Niger Delta people against kidnapping, blowing of facilities and general perpetration of crimes against the Oil coys? The action of NDA in 2016 and other groups was a bad omen to the region.
There is injustice against our people but we also have our own role to play. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Amberon:
There is no sense in the bolded. The cow skins gotten from the north are they stolen or they are bought? Would the Chinese firm or the aba shoe makers need to deplete farmlands, steal the cows and skin them or they simply buy the cow leathers at fair prices??

The oil companies are not all that innocent. You do not live in the host communities and are obviously not from the Niger Delta so i suggest you make enquiries about the pollution and degredation that Shell and its likes have done to our lands or keep mum in this issue. So they can deplete and destroy our lands but not locate their headquarters there?,

Is it only in Nigeria that oil is explored such that pollution is rampant?

Is it not the same global standard of exploration and production used?

Why is our own different?

Amberon:
You are now beginning to sound like a broken record. I will not keep going back and forth as I have things to do.

Like I said, if those oil companies cannot locate their headquarters in the Niger Delta then they can as well go drill their oil in Borno.

Your talk is IMPOTENT and EMPTY. They have been drilling before you were born and will continue long after you are dead . Go and relocaate them

Oil is a curse to Nigeria.

If it's unsafe for them to relocate Thier offices to the region it should also be unsafe for them to operate Thier facilities in the regoin. Employment comes from the office and they end up bringing people of other regions to eat fat There while the indegeins are given cheap labour opportunities. Let them do the ryt thing.

biafrans will not like this

rafindo:
I thank this dishonourable members for doing the right thing for once.sentiment apart business are sited where safety is guaranteed and ease of doing business is okay.as far I am concerned the Niger delta is one of the top place in the world where ease of doing business is extinct. With marching ground ideology, aimless so called lazy youth leader that destroy your property for not compensating the boys.pls don't give me that Houston rubbish of having the hqtr of major oil coys.if your are sincere the government provide the necessary and tax rebate for oil coys.Nigeria is the only country where the community shout our oil as if all lands do not belong to the Fgn

youyr point is baseless and meaningless.yunck

These companies are doing business in the niger-delta and have their pipelines in the delta.why would they have their offices far from the delta where they recruit none indegines and send them to work in the delta.

wirinet:
You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.

Are people not robbed and kidnapped in Lagos and Abuja? Are people not stabbed and shot in London and Newyork? Are there no white people resident in PH and Uyo?

Bridget95:
youyr point is baseless and meaningless.yunck

These companies are doing business in the niger-delta and have their pipelines in the delta.why would they have their offices far from the delta where they recruit none indegines and send them to work in the delta.

It is called business choice

rafindo:

It is called business choice

Same thing with bursting of pipelines by advocates of relocation.

No government tells an investor what region to put his investment.
Over the years, derivation formula has been used to share revenue, many governors in those states have not used it wisely.
Second oil companies pays the Petroleum profit tax to FG.
Third, there is no principle that states that you must locate your company where the resources are.
Fourth, the most functional ports( air and sea) are in Lagos, hence, they are more inclined to move there.
Fifth, there are other regions with oil apart from S/S at least there is one in the S/W and 2 in the S/E.
Further more Lagos has even discovered oil in some parts.
Gentleman of the ND,I don't live in the region but I know that the so called leaders in your state have not done much good to the state. Before the IOCs relocate they need assurance that their investments won't go down the drain.
Until then.

Bridget95:
youyr point is baseless and meaningless.yunck

These companies are doing business in the niger-delta and have their pipelines in the delta.why would they have their offices far from the delta where they recruit none indegines and send them to work in the delta.

That is a good question you ask but IT IS THEIR BUSINESS. Hausa people come to sell tomatoes evryday in Lagos no one made anyy law to make them have offices in Lagos.

No one made any law to make the oil companies locate to Lagos or Abuja.
Dangote akes his cement in Kogi and Ogun State why does he not locate there. certainly such a law will have implications for him.

The Nolly movie producers sell most of their movies in Alaba.Does anyone insist they must make their movies in Lagos. Who do the Igbo traders recruit to sell in their shops in Lagos ?Who do Suya makers recruit to make suya.
Will the Catholic church be forced to relocate to Enugu. What about JAMB should it relocate?

The decision of where to locate is an ECONOMIC decision and ONLY the company knows what is good for it No one forceed the to go to their current locations

TonyeBarcanista:

While I agree that Oil Coys should relocate their HQ to Niger Delta, I must also admit that we have the duty of ensuring that the region is safe for these companies.
It is not enough for Ijaw groups and stakeholdera to spit fire against the REPS, what are they doing to dissuade Ijaw and Niger Delta people against kidnapping, blowing of facilities and general perpetration of crimes against the Oil coys? The action of NDA in 2016 and other groups was a bad omen to the region.
There is injustice against our people but we also have our own role to play. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Our people are the cause of their own problems and they deserve whatever they're getting. It is all about money money money for them. If this same Oil companies now decide to move,it is the same people that will start giving them unecessary bills to pay before they can start work. Do you know how much shell alone pays all the unemployed youths in the communities they operate on a monthly basis?....if the money is a day late,there is always problem. You will now tell them to Move their HQ to that kind of region?.. impossible!

Businesses like to be close to the banks that is the Koko. If Nigeria had electricity and good telecomms then businesses do not have to be physically present in Lagos to access the bank

After all is said and done the oil companies want to get paid,count their money and move it abroad. Right now the best place they can do that from is Lagos and Abuja

TonyeBarcanista:

While I agree that Oil Coys should relocate their HQ to Niger Delta, I must also admit that we have the duty of ensuring that the region is safe for these companies.
It is not enough for Ijaw groups and stakeholdera to spit fire against the REPS, what are they doing to dissuade Ijaw and Niger Delta people against kidnapping, blowing of facilities and general perpetration of crimes against the Oil coys? The action of NDA in 2016 and other groups was a bad omen to the region.
There is injustice against our people but we also have our own role to play. Two wrongs don't make a right.

oboy all the oil companies both international and national should bring their head quarters here so that we solve the Niger delta problem real time...
Most especially that useless nnpc and DPR...let them come here...let those malam come and work in the delta so that they behave themselves...nonsense...

Black November part two loading...

KINGOFTHEEAST:
when the boys enter creek ,you ll understand the right

And if they enter the creek, who is doing who?

Whose water and land would be polluted, is it Ghana's economy that will crumble?

Forget that talk? They can bomb everything so far it's there environment an they get allocations and derivation from it.

wirinet post:
You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.





Guy this your comment is very regrettable. You mean that the oil fields are located in Lagos or Abuja? Or the oil field here is being drill by robots which is impossible to be kidnapp or kill by militants? If they can drill oil here and sell it without their platform being bomb, then i see no reason why they shld not relocate to the state that the oil is gotten from.
I knw you are not from Niger Delta.

rafindo:
I thank this dishonourable members for doing the right thing for once.sentiment apart business are sited where safety is guaranteed and ease of doing business is okay.as far I am concerned the Niger delta is one of the top place in the world where ease of doing business is extinct. With marching ground ideology, aimless so called lazy youth leader that destroy your property for not compensating the boys.pls don't give me that Houston rubbish of having the hqtr of major oil coys.if your are sincere the government provide the necessary and tax rebate for oil coys.Nigeria is the only country where the community shout our oil as if all lands do not belong to the Fgn

The emboldened is wrong bro. In the US, the people own their oil and land, not the government. If your father has a land where oil is found, it becomes yours and that of your unborn kids. That is how it is done in the US. The reason the ND is angry is because of the neglects in their region but they are not supposed to hold the federal government responsible alone but include their kinsmen as well.

aribisala0:
That is a good question you ask but IT IS THEIR BUSINESS. Hausa people come to sell tomatoes evryday in Lagos no one made anyy law to make them have offices in Lagos.

No one made any law to make the oil companies locate to Lagos or Abuja.
Dangote akes his cement in Kogi and Ogun State why does he not locate there. certainly such a law will have implications for him.

The Nolly movie producers sell most of their movies in Alaba.Does anyone insist they must make their movies in Lagos. Who do the Igbo traders recruit to sell in their shops in Lagos ?Who do Suya makers recruit to make suya.
Will the Catholic church be forced to relocate to Enugu. What about JAMB should it relocate?

The decision of where to locate is an ECONOMIC decision and ONLY the company knows what is good for it No one forceed the to go to their current locations

your narrative is different from the subject matter.

These oil companies are taking resources from the land of people of the delta under FG arrangement,they are supposed to show sincerity by fully based in the delta instead of being selfish,self centred and exploitative from a distance where they recruit none indegines to work in the delta and pay royalties to states where their offices are.

first,the naija deltans have to get rid off criminals posing as militant fighters....the delta gets 13% more from sales of oil already and could get more through legal ways......

they have no excuse for their criminals.........

the delta gets 13% more than other states but is still underdeveloped...nothing will change even if they get 50% or more....

and the south east should bloody stay away from this matter....nobody sendt the south easteners to talk for us...

Case closed!

No sane multinational will move it's HQ to the south-south!


It's logical!


Even Gold circle condom, vaseline or Always sanitary pad can not try such, ow much more oil companies!

We talking about security, access and viability ere!

Even there very own indigenous businessmen don't have there HQ in the south south.


Dangote sef HQ def no dey North

CXLVII:
Case closed!

No sane multinational will move it's HQ to the south-south!


It's logical!


Even Gold circle condom, vaseline or Always sanitary pad can not try such, ow much more oil companies!

We talking about security, access and viability ere!

Even there very own indigenous businessmen don't have there HQ in the south south.


Dangote sef HQ def no dey North

you can not force business people to anything....

dadavivo:
then they should remove all their pipelines from the unsafe region and take it to where their headquarters is that is safe. APC government think they are wise, they're just buying time for the bigger fight that will soon start in the Creeks

Shell left Warri and the place became almost a ghost town...other companies are getting ready to write off investments then exit the Niger Delta region.

Your assumption that companies with heavy investments cannot leave that region is wrong

naija deltans must get rid of this criminals calling themselfs militants.....who them epp?....

get rid of them and the investors will stay,you dont have to force them to stay.............

wirinet:
You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.

The enemies of the Niger delta have made themselves known

HughJazz:
You want to force Oil companies HQ back to Niger Delta so you can kidnap their workers and terrorize them again

Why did they not re-locate to Abuja with their pipelines?

nengibo:

The enemies of the Niger delta have made themselves known

even if you get more nothing will change solong you have criminals like tompolo dokubo and others handling your business....

CarlosTheJackal:
I see Niger Delta Avengers going back to the creek to show Dogara the real meaning of insecurity

This is exactly why l think dancing ti the tune of criminals, for the sake of 'temporary Peace"..... is a failed policy.

Never negotiate with Terrorists, even if you have to defend your ground to the last man.

So now, its time for another round of Blackmail, unh?
Well, l am sure the Govt has bought some time and should have used it wisely, to acquire necessary resources to protect the nation.
It is true that one cannot be expected to fight battles on all fronts.

Sunnyja:
Why did they not re-locate to Abuja with their pipelines?

na only the delta dey produce crude oil in the world...what makes you think investors need to stay in the delta to make profit..

If there would be no equity and justice in Nigeria then I'm afraid the day of the reckoning is fast approaching. I'm afraid because the minds coming out of the South-South are far more dangerous than what we have witnessed in this country. Militancy would be child's play.
You all keep politicking to favour your dead zones and then rub it on our faces. In due time.