Fifthcolumnist:


You take this kids seriously . All they know about the Niger Delta is from what they see in blogs and exergerrated news. The person saying Niger Deltans are lazy is probably still being fed by his parents

nengibo:

I can see you are a representative of Agip, since u have their employment, vandalization statistics, rubbish Afonja logic

sniperr007:


How do u reduce crime rate when u ve jobless youths?

Once this companies come into town. Youths will b engaged as skilled or unskilled and youth restiveness' will reduce.

Maga like u dat think crime isn't tied to youth restiveness

Flyingngel:
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.

Customer80:
do you see insincerity in your word's? Just ask funke akindele if she's not paying for marching ground in Lagos when filming etc you want oil exploration in my state but you want oil head office located in Asa Abia state? They explore oil each day in Asa Ndoki in spite of the insecurity you mentioned but can relocate head office. You see why agitation continues

sniperr007:


How do u reduce crime rate when u ve jobless youths?

Once this companies come into town. Youths will b engaged as skilled or unskilled and youth restiveness' will reduce.

Maga like u dat think crime isn't tied to youth restiveness

HughJazz:
this is the reason why your people will never have peace , because you always threaten others and want them to just follow suit. Have a safe environment first . Then the oil companies will even be begging to come there . Not everything is fight fight. I cannot shit inside my house and expect visitors to stay , if my house is the best looking and most awesome house no one will tell visitors not to come, they will force to come themselves .

nabiz:
and what do you understand by safe environment? do you know how many people oil spillage has killed or deform. or do you limit your definition of safety as a physical combat free zone. don't you know that oil spillage is more dangerous than millitancy . And is it not the responsibility of government to maintain security?

nnokwa042:
while all the cows belong to Fulani's the cocoa afonjas shares the money alone but then when oil is mentioned u remember one Nigeria u people re wicked with devilish mind ,abuja was developed 100% with oil money but today only the northerners can be minister of abuja capital territory abi? Things will never be the same again in this Nigeria nobody be mumu again ,

aribisala0:
The issue is not about safety ,that is a lame argument.The reality is that where businesses located headquarters is not governed by LEGISLATION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD< ANYWHERE. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. I have no objection to oil companies moving but doing so by legislation is very dangerous because of the potential UNINTENDED CONSQUENCES for other non oil businesses and general investment confidence.
It location can be legislated what next who to employ. That they must build churches or mosques in their premises. There is no need to introduce unnnecessary complexity through the backdoor. The argument remains about resource control and what percentage of oil proceeds goes to the communities. That is what should be addressed.Once the communities are getting what is their right if the copanies like they can locate in Cameroon if it pays them. The real issue is about resource control so don't transfer frustration to oil companies

First if such legislation can apply to oil industry what next ??
Dangote should move to Kogi?Chivita should move to Benue or Oyo , Companies making soap should move to where they get palm oil etc .
There is nothing like Niger Delta in our constitution so where a company is operating in 4 states where should it go to which one.

This is just unnecesssary sentimentality and those pushing for it are isinformed about tax. Oil companies do not pa tax to Lagos State.In fact ALL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA PAY TAX TO THE FG regardless of where the headquarters are located.

LASG get PAYE personal income tax of workers resident in Lagos.The quuestion is in a company like Mobil or Shell what percentage of their workers are outside their operation area in Lagos?

Agumbankembu:
All those hype by Osibanjo was all ruse. Forget.

Agumbankembu:



Other rep members supported it, majorly reps from SS and SE, but it was shouted down by Gbajabimilo or what is that his name and his northern overlords.
Fukktards.

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

HughJazz:
have you ever seen places where business go when there are high crime? no. just be honest. If you have money now will go and invest in maiduguri or syria? be honest . you have no brain . lower the crime rate first , have good business polices. create just one big industrial park put a small power plant in it. and make your yourself attractive. you'll see investors coming wanting to toast you.

KINGOFTHEEAST:
Yoruba so much love for ss because those administrative offices are in Lagos they have done something better right ....like I always say friendship with sw like water poured in a basket

willibounce1:




So you are saying Niger deltans don't work in any of the headquarters in Lagos? You guys just bring stupid emotions and sentiments into serious issues. So if the oil companies relocate to Niger delta, all their workers must be from the region even though most of them prefer to kidnap and get free money rather than work. You think the oil companies are senseless? They know how you people will force useless and brainless touts on them in the name of employing people from your region. Oil business is not ogogoro...you can build your own oil company and put the headquarters in niger delta, abi is anybody stopping you?

aribisala0:
The issue is not about safety ,that is a lame argument.The reality is that where businesses located headquarters is not governed by LEGISLATION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD< ANYWHERE. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. I have no objection to oil companies moving but doing so by legislation is very dangerous because of the potential UNINTENDED CONSQUENCES for other non oil businesses and general investment confidence.
It location can be legislated what next who to employ. That they must build churches or mosques in their premises. There is no need to introduce unnnecessary complexity through the backdoor. The argument remains about resource control and what percentage of oil proceeds goes to the communities. That is what should be addressed.Once the communities are getting what is their right if the copanies like they can locate in Cameroon if it pays them. The real issue is about resource control so don't transfer frustration to oil companies

First if such legislation can apply to oil industry what next ??
Dangote should move to Kogi?Chivita should move to Benue or Oyo , Companies making soap should move to where they get palm oil etc .
There is nothing like Niger Delta in our constitution so where a company is operating in 4 states where should it go to which one.

This is just unnecesssary sentimentality and those pushing for it are isinformed about tax. Oil companies do not pa tax to Lagos State.In fact ALL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA PAY TAX TO THE FG regardless of where the headquarters are located.

LASG get PAYE personal income tax of workers resident in Lagos.The quuestion is in a company like Mobil or Shell what percentage of their workers are outside their operation area in Lagos?

ColonelDrake:

Over 95% of AGIP's workforce are indigenes of south south. Yet you still them dress like paupers for fear of kidnap. Enter the facility and see them change cars every month. They dress like that to make their people believe that they're poor in order not to kidnap them.. With Agip boasting of very high percentage of indigenes in their workforce, they're still the worst hit when it comes to vandalization and sabotage of oil facilities.


Relocation my foot!

TheGoodJoe:


What does Osinbanjo have to do with this? The Federal Government (which Osinbanjo is part of) proposed to move the administrative offices to the Niger Delta. The Reps refused.

sniperr007:


D media has corrupted ur impression abt ND. U not on ground and u bliv everything u hear.

Go there before u say d crime rate is high &amp; u r foolish to compare wit Syria dats a war torn country.

GavelSlam:


You guys love to make false statements with such confidence one might actually believe if one was uninformed.

Does Igbokoda sound like a delta name to you?

Or simply because oil is found in a place it must be owned by delta?

Oil companies pay tax to the federation and most chose to leave their former abodes due to gross insecurity, Warri a case in point.

aribisala0:



Let us learn to use logic properly. Rejection of the resolution has NOTHING to do with security.Even if the region was safer than Switzerland with not a single kidnapping it should be rejected on principle. What principle?? government does not and should not have the authority to tell a company where to locate its headquarters. It is like a father inlaw telling his son in law where to live. If he wishes to impose such a condition it must be agreed before the wedding not after.

What we must not forget is if we agree that government has such power in the first place then why will such a power be limited to the oil industry or to decisions about location and not other things

If indeed we wish to move our country away from dependence on oil how will we attract investment in other sectors with this kind of signal. Is the oil industry the only industry in Nigeria

Imagine telling music companies or movie companies or soft drink companies etc where to locate for one pretext or another .This will cause total chaos in our economy. You start telling Davido where to make his videos or who to put in it? It is only when laws are enacted that people begin to realise they have created a monster. The majority of films are sold in Lagos so should we insist all films are shot in Lagos?

This has absolutely nothing to do with security and everything to do with establishhing limits to governent power generally

aribisala0:
It eally is a shame that all this that all this heat and discussion is generated and people remain ignorant.

Th reps have not refused to the move at all. What happened was they did not pass a REESOLUTION.

We really to educate ourselves about the processes of our democracy.Even if theyy passed the resolution it has no legal force.It is not legislation and only has moral force but also predicts the attitude of the House to any possible legislation.

The Petroleu Industry Bill is te the main legislative change that we need to pay attention to.


Now where does Osinbajo come into this ? If he was sincere he should have sent a Bill or proposed amendments to the PIB alsoHe should start with a cler plan on relocating NNPC from Abuja to showw sincerity

aribisala0:
You can have any narrative you like.

They are not TAKING anything. The Nigerian State is the one doing the taking. The oil companies are doing BUSINESS

There is no nation liike Delta so nothing like people of Delta . .

They are a business enterprise doing business in Nigeria under Nigeran laws. They came in under the laws extant at the time.

If people in the comunity want to renegotiate Nigeria as an entity or the constitution of Nigeria that is fine whether peacefully or by insurrection there is nothing new there.They should roll the dice and deal with the outcome. It is nothing to do with the oil companies. So do not scapegoat the oil companies.
Face the Nigerian State and do so boldly.

Oil companiies are not the only companies doing business. There is hardly any business that does not take soething from LAND whether it is Dangote or Chivita so any such laws will affect the whole country.

Let us shhun sentient

Bridget95:
Mr,take your selfish and arrogant tale to the gutters where they belong, I don't discuss or ague with people of such mindset.

get off my mention.

Basic123:
who dey demand for your friendship.We are not friends and we are not enemy.we are just neighbours.

Bridget95:
Mr,take your selfish and arrogant tale to the gutters where they belong, I don't discuss or ague with people of such mindset.

get off my mention.

Bridget95:
people of your likes are the reason Nigeria has destroyed by selfishness and greed.who told you that I am from Niger Delta?

You lots lack empathy. put yourself in their shoes. would you like your father's compound turned to a milking ground by foreigners ,left dirty and under developed while the papetrators enjoy in their offices in Lagos?

get your shitty thoughts off my mentions to the gutters where they belong.

HughJazz:
Why don't we move the nigerian capital to Niger Delta. lol . instead of cleaning their own house.

what the hell do you want more??....