NOT AGAIN!! -200 dead in Nigeria pipeline blast

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[I Love Nigeria]

Eezeebee wrote:

then it is truly time to go and take over government.

I CANNOT sit here, read/listen to these kinds of inanities emerging from ill-formed pie holes of such 'leaders' anymore

Somebody, please tell me that Eezeebee is not ANGRY, I do not want to be in the same room with him, when he is angry, OK? Whoa!

[Big-K]

Folks,

I have an unpopular theory about the spate of calamities befalling Nigeria - its called the Malthusian catastrophe (google up Thomas Malthus).Basically, you cant squeeze 150million people in that tiny 900k square feet and not expect calamities. Add short-sighted leadership, 250 ethnicities to that mix and you realize nigeria is a keg of gunpowder.

Its time to find a way to acquire land (use ecowas, renegotiation of berlin conference or whatever as a guise), but we cant go on this way.

Of course our leaders are too concerned with self-preservation and most Nigerians are too concerned with daily bread to even understand what I'm about here.

I'll expand on this if need be

[emj]

Originally Posted by Big-K

Folks,

I have an unpopular theory about the spate of calamities befalling Nigeria - its called the Malthusian catastrophe (google up Thomas Malthus).Basically, you cant squeeze 150million people in that tiny 900k square feet and not expect calamities. Add short-sighted leadership, 250 ethnicities to that mix and you realize nigeria is a keg of gunpowder.

Its time to find a way to acquire land (use ecowas, renegotiation of berlin conference or whatever as a guise), but we cant go on this way.

Of course our leaders are too concerned with self-preservation and most Nigerians are too concerned with daily bread to even understand what I'm about here.

I'll expand on this if need be

A begy expand..........se na like desert encroachment ni abi na like the kin one wey the Arabs dem dey plan?

The same story of pipelines explosion year in year out..............hmmmmmmmmm

[docokwy]

Ibadan community raises alarm over looming pipeline fire
By Ola Ajayi
Posted to the Web: Thursday, December 28, 2006



IBADAN— TWO days after pipeline explosion killed hundreds of people at Awori Village in Lagos, another explosion is looming at Adebisi Layout in Ibadan as some residents in the area yesterday raised alarm to the authorities concerned to help them check the nefarious activities of vandals who scoop petroleum products in a stream at the back of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC).

The alarm was raised when the Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja paid a courtesy visit to the Ibadan depot of the corporation to see how the nagging problem of fuel scarcity could be checked.

The Leader of the residents, Mr. Saka Balogun who led the governor to the stream, explained that there had been many fire outbreaks as a result of the activities of the vandals stressing that the police had arrested the vandals many times, but they still continued in their dangerous ventures.

He added that knowing the extent of damage to lives and property that their actions could cause, the residents in the area had been living in perpetual fear because there may be an explosion.

Balogun accused some law enforcement agents and some NNPC staff of conniving with the vandals, adding that despite repeated reports to the corporation, it had refused to do anything concrete to put an end to the dangerous trend.

“At a time when I complained to them, all they said was that the contents in the stream was a waste product,” he said.
Dismissing the claims of the corporation, he noted that the vandals “always come with many trucks and load petroleum products for sale to the consumers. I wonder why trucks are always brought to the scene to load contents they claimed it was waste products”.

He therefore appealed to the government and other stakeholders to nip the activities of the vandals in the bud so as to prevent possible explosion that could happen in the area.

Meanwhile, Senator Ladoja who promised the residents that something concrete would be done to stop the vandals, appealed to all the people in the state to be patient and that the products would soon be made available.

He said: “The problem is beyond Apata depot, I want to let you know that the fire disaster has prevented the loading of fuel from atlas cove to Mosimi but let me assure you that from today, the pipeline will be fully repaired and fuel loading will resume,”
Earlier, the Depot Accountant, Alhaja Simiat ****tu attributed the scarcity to the vandalisation of the corporation’s equipment.