Achebe, Soyinka & 100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad; WARN Bush Over Iraq War!

The Nigerians were said to have expressed their dismay, disgust and utmost disappointment with Pr...Read the full article.

[mulan]

Originally Posted by aiksmart

So you sincerly do believe that the USA or the rest of the developed world SINCERLY want to know what our Nigerian heroes "Achebe, Soyinka & 100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad" think about the said war?
My friend, lets keep it real & keep our focus on local issues that DIRECTLY affect our polity, like how we have short-changed ourselves before the rest of the world. Take for example the upcoming Brass LNG project, when the USA firm that is handling this project worked on a similar billion dollar project in India (the Reliance Refinery), they were compelled by the host community, owners & nation to construct an entirely new ultra-modern city in that location, and they gladly did. So when they got this BRASS LNG project, drawing from their Reliance experience, this USA firm proposed to construct an ultra-modern city in BRASS, Bayelsa, complete with all the modern infrastructures obtainable in USA; highways, power plants, sewage, portable-water etc. However, our own dear NNPC top-minds, expunged this from the project! I am thinking of writing about this, however, am not quite prepared mentally, & materially to deal with the possible consequence of such action because I work for this firm and I so dearly love my job, but it makes my heart bleed, when I think of how we constantly undermine ourselves in the face of the free world!
We as a nation are where we are now, because we constantly fail to ask for proper directions.

Regards
Ike

@Ike,

Are you serious?

@Admin,

I couldn't view the full article...

[I Love Nigeria]

AikSmart you wrote "However, our own dear NNPC top-minds, expunged this from the project! I am thinking of writing about this, however, am not quite prepared mentally, & materially to deal with the possible consequence of such action"

Can I BEG you to provide the specifics for what you allege? These are very GRAVE allegations! IF they are true.... those responsible may have deprived Nigeria momentously!

Give me the facts through my PM or e-mail... I promised you that I will write about it shortly, very shortly!

[Anon]

Originally Posted by aiksmart

So you sincerly do believe that the USA or the rest of the developed world SINCERLY want to know what our Nigerian heroes "Achebe, Soyinka & 100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad" think about the said war?
My friend, lets keep it real & keep our focus on local issues that DIRECTLY affect our polity, like how we have short-changed ourselves before the rest of the world. Take for example the upcoming Brass LNG project, when the USA firm that is handling this project worked on a similar billion dollar project in India (the Reliance Refinery), they were compelled by the host community, owners & nation to construct an entirely new ultra-modern city in that location, and they gladly did. So when they got this BRASS LNG project, drawing from their Reliance experience, this USA firm proposed to construct an ultra-modern city in BRASS, Bayelsa, complete with all the modern infrastructures obtainable in USA; highways, power plants, sewage, portable-water etc. However, our own dear NNPC top-minds, expunged this from the project! I am thinking of writing about this, however, am not quite prepared mentally, & materially to deal with the possible consequence of such action because I work for this firm and I so dearly love my job, but it makes my heart bleed, when I think of how we constantly undermine ourselves in the face of the free world!We as a nation are where we are now, because we constantly fail to ask for proper directions.

Regards
Ike

Ike these are grave allegations! I am inclined to believe them the more I hear about what happened in the Pfizer case in Kano, and the more I get involved with the health industry back home in Nigeria. The issues and stories are quite similar in many respects and they defy common sense. There is no amount of logic one can use to address them or explain the rationale behind these decisions. But please I strongly suggest that you share these stories. Even if it means opening up another moniker, since the one you use is currently associated with your real identity, or better still do as Adujie has requested and send a 3rd party the information to lay it bare here.

[Auspicious]

I couldn't open and read this NVS article titled:

"Achebe, Soyinka and 100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad; WARN Bush Over Iraq War"

But I quickly figured out, that there are only three people who author articles with meandering tittles like that, one of whom is Paul I. Adujie and, amongst the other two, is a fellow "New Yorker" of Paul's whom I cannot be bothered to name.

My brief response will be to that winding tittle:

BUSH AND IRAQ ARE NOT ACHEBE AND SOYINKA'S PRIORITY - NIGERIA (THEIR HOME COUNTRY WHICH THEY LOVE AND CARE FOR) IS THE PRIORITY!!!!!

Merci,

Auspicious.

[emj]

Can't view the article either, but i know that some elders and leaders in some of the south-south communities in the past and even of recent have always waved off help, and instead settle for cash. There has been 1st hand stories of how contractors who go there to do some work have tried to help build/grade roads and build some infrastructure to help alleviate the sufferings of the people, but were desuaded from going further........

I won't be surprised if what ogbuefi Aiksmart is trying to tell us is true. Let's even look deeper.....how can big companies go to such region to set up shop, and not be moved to do something tangible........it's all about Corporate Responsibility........putting something back into the community that made it possible for u to make wealth etc etc.

[Nonyellum]

Originally Posted by emj

Can't view the article either, but i know that some elders and leaders in some of the south-south communities in the past and even of recent have always waved off help, and instead settle for cash. There has been 1st hand stories of how contractors who go there to do some work have tried to help build/grade roads and build some infrastructure to help alleviate the sufferings of the people, but were desuaded from going further........

I won't be surprised if what ogbuefi Aiksmart is trying to tell us is true. Let's even look deeper.....how can big companies go to such region to set up shop, and not be moved to do something tangible........it's all about Corporate Responsibility........putting something back into the community that made it possible for u to make wealth etc etc.

The post says NNPC TOP MINDS pulled the plug.
Who was in charge of the Oil Ministry when this deal was brokered; who's in charge of NNPC?

Please Aiksmat, you gotta post this info. We beg you my bro.

I could not view the article either.

[Nonyellum]

Aiksmart's post has been doctored or deleted.

Something fishy is going on here. ADMIN what's going on?

Well we will not withdraw our coments.

I hope you can live with yourself, Aiksmart, for being too cowardly to step up to the plate.

[emj]

Originally Posted by Nonyellum

The post says NNPC TOP MINDS pulled the plug.
Who was in charge of the Oil Ministry when this deal was brokered; who's in charge of NNPC?

Please Aiksmat, you gotta post this info. We beg you my bro.

I could not view the article either.

Well about time an end is put to these. We cannot sit by and watch this nonsense go on year in year out. If all those who explore for oil in the region have free hand to help rebuild the region and set up infrastructures like is normal wherever they set up shop our people and environment would be more developed by now. The quality of life and economy of the region would improve. We will begin to see true development etc etc.

If only Nigeria can be divided into regions and each region handles/harness it's own Mineral and Natural Resources, and less dependence on the centre.........kai

[emj]

Originally Posted by Nonyellum

Aiksmart's post has been doctored or deleted.

Something fishy is going on here. ADMIN what's going on?

Well we will not withdraw our coments.

I hope you can live with yourself, Aiksmart, for being too cowardly to step up to the plate.

The story might be from anoda source and not really Aiksmart............se u get, rapuaa. leave Aiksmart alone, we are all human, there are other ways of getting to the bottom of the whole matter.
Se Goodluck dey for Abuja with dem now, make we give am 3moons/mths, then the pressure to begin to draw the ears of the SS leaders to pull all the pullables should start..........QAS

[I Love Nigeria]

AIKSMART'S COMMENTS ARE STILL HERE! COURTESY OF ANON & MULAN'S POSTINGS.

AIKSMART STORY

So you sincerly do believe that the USA or the rest of the developed world SINCERLY want to know what our Nigerian heroes "Achebe, Soyinka & 100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad" think about the said war?

My friend, lets keep it real & keep our focus on local issues that DIRECTLY affect our polity, like how we have short-changed ourselves before the rest of the world. Take for example the upcoming Brass LNG project, when the USA firm that is handling this project worked on a similar billion dollar project in India (the Reliance Refinery), they were compelled by the host community, owners & nation to construct an entirely new ultra-modern city in that location, and they gladly did. So when they got this BRASS LNG project, drawing from their Reliance experience, this USA firm proposed to construct an ultra-modern city in BRASS, Bayelsa, complete with all the modern infrastructures obtainable in USA; highways, power plants, sewage, portable-water etc. However, our own dear NNPC top-minds, expunged this from the project! I am thinking of writing about this, however, am not quite prepared mentally, & materially to deal with the possible consequence of such action because I work for this firm and I so dearly love my job, but it makes my heart bleed, when I think of how we constantly undermine ourselves in the face of the free world!
We as a nation are where we are now, because we constantly fail to ask for proper directions.

Regards
Ike
Originally Posted by aiksmart ?So you sincerly do believe that the USA or the rest of the developed world SINCERLY want to know what our Nigerian heroes "Achebe, Soyinka & 100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad" think about the said war?
My friend, lets keep it real & keep our focus on local issues that DIRECTLY affect our polity, like how we have short-changed ourselves before the rest of the world. Take for example the upcoming Brass LNG project, when the USA firm that is handling this project worked on a similar billion dollar project in India (the Reliance Refinery), they were compelled by the host community, owners & nation to construct an entirely new ultra-modern city in that location, and they gladly did. So when they got this BRASS LNG project, drawing from their Reliance experience, this USA firm proposed to construct an ultra-modern city in BRASS, Bayelsa, complete with all the modern infrastructures obtainable in USA; highways, power plants, sewage, portable-water etc. However, our own dear NNPC top-minds, expunged this from the project! I am thinking of writing about this, however, am not quite prepared mentally, & materially to deal with the possible consequence of such action because I work for this firm and I so dearly love my job, but it makes my heart bleed, when I think of how we constantly undermine ourselves in the face of the free world!We as a nation are where we are now, because we constantly fail to ask for proper directions.

Regards
Ike

[Auspicious]

So, really, what happened to Aiksmart's comments?

Do we deserve, at the very least, an explanation from him - for the sake of his own personal reputation?

I ask because it surely does not speak well of Aiksmart, that in one moment, he makes very serious allegations about a Government agency and, the next moment, the comments are withdrawn without bothering to explain why.

Is Aiksmart a big-mouth who has bitten more than he can chew? Is he a coward? Or is he he protecting his job? Who really is Aiksmart?

I ask because it is a slap in the face of us all, for him to yank away his comments - just like that.

Aiksmart doesn't have to tell us what he doesn't want to if it threatens his livelihood..but we at least deserve the courtesy of an explanation for the disapperance of his comments.
Auspicious.

[aiksmart]

Friends,
Well, when you work for corporations, their internal affairs are kept "INTERNAL".
We are all smart people, and you all already got some tit bits on this, so the next logical step should be to harness the services of Sahara Reporters or such like, and may be this may be another big one, hopefully will compell NNPC & the new Nigeria government to review their contract award policies.
You may also wish to take a closer look at the Mambilla hydro-power plant, awarded at $1.2+Billion, the Chinese are probably only going to build the power plant & drop it off there leaving the host community they way they saw it infrastructure-wise.

Speaking of cowardice, nothing in me reeks of such pungent odour.

[Auspicious]

Originally Posted by aiksmart

Speaking of cowardice, nothing in me reeks of such pungent odour.

Perhaps you missed this:

Aiksmart doesn't have to tell us what he doesn't want to if it threatens his livelihood..but we at least deserve the courtesy of an explanation for the disapperance of his comments

Simplicita!

Auspicious.

[Nonyellum]

Aiksmart

My friend, lets keep it real & keep our focus on local issues that DIRECTLY affect our polity, like how we have short-changed ourselves before the rest of the world. Take for example the upcoming Brass LNG project, when the USA firm that is handling this project worked on a similar billion dollar project in India (the Reliance Refinery), they were compelled by the host community, owners & nation to construct an entirely new ultra-modern city in that location, and they gladly did. So when they got this BRASS LNG project, drawing from their Reliance experience, this USA firm proposed to construct an ultra-modern city in BRASS, Bayelsa, complete with all the modern infrastructures obtainable in USA; highways, power plants, sewage, portable-water etc. However, our own dear NNPC top-minds, expunged this from the project! I am thinking of writing about this, however, am not quite prepared mentally, & materially to deal with the possible consequence of such action because I work for this firm and I so dearly love my job, but it makes my heart bleed, when I think of how we constantly undermine ourselves in the face of the free world!
We as a nation are where we are now, because we constantly fail to ask for proper directions.

Regards
Ike

Ike is this what you were talking about?

Saw this on THIS-DAY last night.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=80820

This Bechtel Company is also mentioned in Tony Perkins "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".

Company has ties to Washington, American National security establishment , the Contruction in Iraq (fleecing of the Iraqis), and is one of the fronts used to expand the American Corporatocracy.

This is NOT good news.

For that $8.5 billion CONSTRUCTION contract they better provide a modern city.

We want to know the terms of the contract and who expunged that community benefit from the terms of agreement.

Who's pocketing the people's benefit?

Sowore my Brother, we need una help again. This one gaju no be small. The mother of all corruption.

[Nonyellum]

Sorry, link does not work, article's been moved.

I'm posting it here.

Brass LNG Signs $8.5bn Contract
By Fidelia Okwuonu with agency report, 06.13.2007

Nigeria Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) yesterday signed a construction contract deal of 8.5 billion U.S dollar.
The LNG export project took a new turn yesterday inspite of the incessant insecurity situation in the Niger Delta.
According to reports, the shareholders, which include Total, Eni unit of Agip ConocoPhillips and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have yet to take a final investment decision because repeated militant attacks and kidnappings near the site in Bayelsa state have prevented contractors going to the site.
The award of the engineering and procurement contract to a privately owned US company (Bechtel) last week, the report said, indicates that the Brass LNG project would definitely go ahead despite the challenges.
The US-based company said on its website that the contract covered the co-ordination of all construction work for Brass LNG, which is designed to export 10 million tonnes of LNG a year starting from 2012.
This, according to a senior company official, also indicates that the investors are still committed to the project.
Bechtel is expected to build the main gas units itself, and sub-contract other work and that it was responsible for the early engineering and design, which finished last year.
Report said Brass LNG had been expected to get the final green light from investors at the end of last year, but that decision has been on hold because of rising insecurity in the Niger Delta and that executives now expect the final investment decision by the end of this year or early in 2008.

Sorry for the cut'n'paste, learning a lot from big bro ILN.

[Nonyellum]

Originally Posted by aiksmart

Friends,
Well, when you work for corporations, their internal affairs are kept "INTERNAL".
We are all smart people, and you all already got some tit bits on this, so the next logical step should be to harness the services of Sahara Reporters or such like, and may be this may be another big one, hopefully will compell NNPC & the new Nigeria government to review their contract award policies.
You may also wish to take a closer look at the Mambilla hydro-power plant, awarded at $1.2+Billion, the Chinese are probably only going to build the power plant & drop it off there leaving the host community they way they saw it infrastructure-wise.

Speaking of cowardice, nothing in me reeks of such pungent odour.

It is exactly for situations like this that we need the FOI Bill passed. These contracts should be thoroughly scrutinized, plus every last minute deals OBJoke transacted.

Ike, you will never be able to live with yourself, knowing that you have information that could help millions of your fellow Nigerians, yet refuse to divulge.

Don't kill your conscience, you'll be miserable for ever if you do.

Knowing what you do now, how can you in all honesty continue to work for this Company for the peanuts you're paid.

____________

The Chinese are going to build the Railways too, and like all these constructions, there'll be no transfer of Technology.

_____________

These communities deserve whatever amenities the Foreign companies are willing to provide.

Common, Bro.

[I Love Nigeria]

Fighting Corruption, With Sunshine! A la Freedom of Information Law. By Paul I. Adujie

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/...unshine-5.html

[aiksmart]

Originally Posted by Nonyellum

It is exactly for situations like this that we need the FOI Bill passed. These contracts should be thoroughly scrutinized, plus every last minute deals OBJoke transacted.

Ike, you will never be able to live with yourself, knowing that you have information that could help millions of your fellow Nigerians, yet refuse to divulge.

Don't kill your conscience, you'll be miserable for ever if you do.

Knowing what you do now, how can you in all honesty continue to work for this Company for the peanuts you're paid.
____________

The Chinese are going to build the Railways too, and like all these constructions, there'll be no transfer of Technology.

_____________

These communities deserve whatever amenities the Foreign companies are willing to provide.

Common, Bro.

Nonyellum, please stay with me here, I think you may be sincerely troubled by other unrelated issues, if the explanation I put forth is unacceptable to you. The original article which I responded to was written be Paul Adujie, but he withdrew his stuff, and the NVS admin respected his 'change of heart', and I followed suit after re-evaluating my discourse, however and unfortunately I was not extended the same courtesy-(almost becoming a repetitive pattern), which leads me to argue that you can bet that if I edit this very commentary, that "admin" may still not delete my initial comment.

The issues here does not even require rocket science to understand, the offenders are not the contractors but our own government officials, and I feel most highly disrespected by you referring to my earnings as "peanuts", since you live in the States with me and perhaps might be a professional just like myself, whatever happened to “dignity in labor”. Speaking of technology transfer, well that’s partly why we went to colleges in the USA and other developed countries, and that is why we stayed back to work here and gain some industry experience which can be transferred/implemented back home when given the opportunity, as opposed to jetting back home immediately we graduated- and believe me we are learning quite fast. I believe that our experiences at different levels will come in handy, I actually made a proposal on this tech-retraining to the NVS admin, unfortunately, my proposal did not get the 1st class attention that it deserved, and maybe I should simply co-lunch another website that can foster such ideas... I am thinking about this seriously.
College degrees allows us the audacity to think in degrees when evaluating our lines of actions, and degrees of freedom gives us the leverage to reconsider prior positions on any issues. I have taken an honorable position which should be respected by right-thinking honorable persons on this NVS board & beyond, and if that is too complicated for you to understand then please accept my apology and let’s rest this case.

[I Love Nigeria]

aiksmart >>>> WHAT DO YOU MEAN??? .....with "The original article which I responded to was written be Paul Adujie, but he withdrew his stuff, and the NVS admin respected his 'change of heart"

What article did Paul Adujie withdraw?