As you ponder your self-defense, keep in mind that these herdsmen terrorists are COWADS. Ya kpọtụba!
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Oha 1,
I thought you are titled man. You do not need to be told what that means.
It means you must stand by truth and nothing but the truth at all times, especially now as an elderly.
It is egregious, a sacrilege for you to say that “In 1966 Igbo people organized killings of other tribes in Nigeria for…….” Do you have any evidence to buttress this morbid face lie against a people.
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] Wake Up Call For Southern Nigeria
There was a civil war in the country between 1967-1970. Certainly, at some point in 1966 there was an organized killings initiated by the Igbo people that killed a number of the leaders of Fulani, Yoruba and Edo people. Following the brutal killings, the Fulani people in the North who were the close allies of the Igbo, organized the mass killings of the Igbo people in the North in a reprisal madness. All Igbo people in the Southwest were NOT harmed. They enjoyed great hospitality.
The mass killings of Igbo in the north made the Igbo people to relocate to their region in the East. They subsequently declared secession. Yoruba people tried to intervene calling for calm and peace. The Federal Government headed by a Northerner declared war on the secessionists. The peace loving Yoruba people did not support the war until the leaders of the secessionist turned their gun and fury; and invaded Yorubaland in their expansionist scheme.
Thank God, just a handful of Yoruba great warriors drove back the secessionists from their land. That is the real story. Despite the unwarranted attack on peace loving Yoruba people, the Igbo people were welcomed with open arms in Yorubaland when hostilities ended in 1970. The writer of the piece below is a beneficiary of the Yoruba support, encouragement and accommodation. Igbo are thriving in Yorubaland.
The Oha 1
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On Monday, March 1, 2021, 10:05 AM, 'Wharf A. Snake' via AfricanWorldForum <africanw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Folks,
This is pure whistling in the wind. Empty barrels making the most noise. How exactly did the north sit and make this agreement? Was there a mapo hall type meeting of the northerners that we are not privy to?
In the 60’s Yoruba, the people of Benue-Plateau, the Edo, Ijaw and others joined in the massive killings of the people of the East. Like Chamberlain they appeased the bloodthirsty Fulani. The blood thirsty Fulani like Donald Trump cares about no one but himself. Today they are after their allies and their allies are making the most noise. Do I really care about their empty noise I say hell no. Take it like appeasers - bend over backwards and pull your pants down. Your Fulani masters are on the prowl and like apes you better obey.
Ejo ni Mushin - Prince
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On Mar 1, 2021, at 9:35 AM, 'femi Olajide' via AfricanWorldForum <africanw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Dear All,
I read a piece about the strategic war being waged on the South West of Nigeria and the way Southern Nigerian leaders generally have walked and led their people into the trap with their eyes wide opened.
The salient points of the strategic assault which the writer elucidated but which I will succinctly give my own interpretation to below goes thus:
1. The initial assault started with the over concentration of agricultural production in the south on cash crops for generation of wealth for the federal coffers while food production suffered. Meanwhile the northern states concentrated on food production making the southern states dependent on the northern states for food.
2. The second assault started with the blockade of all external borders in recent times, especially the southern borders while the northern borders were left porous as a practice run to analyse the flow of food in the sub-region.
3. The third assault culminated in the destroying of the few food producing agricultural concerns and small farmers' holdings in the south with nomadic cattle herds of the northerners, deliberately to degrade the meagre food production in the south.
4. The fourth assault was the fermentation of trouble between the northerners and southerners in the south which will culminate in expulsion of the northerners, thereby presenting a basis for the last assault e.g. Shasha incident in Ibadan etc..
5. The last assault was the blockade of food supply to the south to force the South to concede to some yearnings of the north e.g. compensation of herdsmen; adoption of RUGA; political concessions etc.
It may well be a practice run or the real McCoy by a group or elements from the north, but it has worked like clockwork. Obviously, the federal government and elements in the south are complicit in the plan.
Southern leaders will now have to re-strategize and ensure that food production is scaled up and it's place re-evaluated as a priority in their scale of preferences.
It is clear that if Southerners have instituted blockade of food, oil or any other essentials to the north, the federal government would have deployed state security services to the north immediately.
It is quite obvious that either the federal government is complicit or simply incompetent to handle the situation that can simply escalate to another uncivil war.
What will happen if the Niger Delta guys decides to go back into the trenches and start blowing up pipelines taking crude, processed oil and gas to the north or some elements from the south decides to confront those causing the blockade directly or all petrol tankers are blockaded from going to the north? Quite a recipe for total breakdown.
The federal government has to buckle up or they'll be left with nothing govern!
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Femi Olajide
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 15:16, Kayode Adebayo
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Dumbest Yoruba Wannabe Called Femi Olajide:
Of course, you are the stupidest and dumbest Nigerian in United Kingdom. You can't read and comprehend. Isn't the article saying and repeating the exact same thing I told Joseph Igietseme all day yesterday about the dangers of fossil fuels to humanity and why they need to be abandoned for renewable energies. Joseph Igietseme is in the same ignorance category as you. He just buttressed my points with the article he posted.
Unfortunately, you failed English Compression in High School and became a sea pirate in London, you this Yoruba Wannabe from Edo Nation called Femi Olajide.
What a shame!
Kayode
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:35 AM, femi Olajide
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JUI,
Thanks for posting the article. It is definitely more informative than the cacophonous nonsense that was posted by that Kayusee fellow.
l expect a barrage of personal insult now from the fool for just saying the facts as I see it.
Regards,
Femi Olajide
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 2:41, Kayode Adebayo
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Joseph Igietseme:
What's the point of the article you posted. Isn't that the same thing I've been telling you all along?
Kayode
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Fossil Fuels: The Dirty Facts
Mining, drilling, and burning dirty energy are harming the environment and our health. Here’s everything you need to know about fossil fuels, and why we need to embrace a clean energy future.
June 29, 2018 Melissa Denchak [from NRDC – Natural Resources Defense Council]
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fossil-fuels-dirty-facts
For more than a century, burning fossil fuels has generated most of the energy required to propel our cars, power our businesses, and keep the lights on in our homes. Even today, oil, coal, and gas provide for about 80 percent of our energy needs.
And we’re paying the price. Using fossil fuels for energy has exacted an enormous toll on humanity and the environment—from air and water pollution to global warming. That’s beyond all the negative impacts from petroleum-based products such as plastics and chemicals. Here’s a look at what fossil fuels are, what they cost us (beyond the wallet), and why it’s time to move toward a clean energy future.
What Are Fossil Fuels?
Coal, crude oil, and natural gas are all considered fossil fuels because they were formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Because of their origins, fossil fuels have a high carbon content.
Examples of Fossil Fuels
Oil
Crude oil, or petroleum (literally “rock oil” in Latin), is a liquid fossil fuel made up mostly of hydrocarbons (hydrogen and carbon compounds). Oil can be found in underground reservoirs; in the cracks, crevices, and pores of sedimentary rock; or in tar sands near the earth’s surface. It’s accessed by drilling, on land or at sea, or by strip mining in the case of tar sands oil and oil shale. Once extracted, oil is transported to refineries via supertanker, train, truck, or pipeline to be transformed into usable fuels such as gasoline, propane, kerosene, and jet fuel—as well as products such as plastics and paint.
Petroleum products supply about 37 percent of U.S. energy needs, with the transportation sector consuming the most. U.S. oil consumption in 2016 was 10 percent below the record high of 2005 and only 3 percent higher than during the 1973–74 embargo by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)—despite the U.S. economy tripling in size in the decades since. However, oil use has increased modestly for the past four years, as relatively low gasoline prices have fueled a rise in vehicle miles traveled and renewed interest in SUVs and light trucks. Still, U.S. consumption of petroleum products is forecast to decrease, at least through 2035, as fuel efficiency standards lead to cleaner-running vehicles. Continued strengthening of clean car and fuel economy standards remains critical for reducing oil consumption.
On the production side, the United States has experienced a decadelong upswing. Production growth is due in large part to improvements in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, technologies that have created a boom in U.S. shale oil and natural gas extraction. While horizontal drilling enables producers to drill down and outward—thus reaching more oil or gas from a single well—hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking) is designed to extract oil or natural gas from unyielding rock, including shale and other formations. Fracking involves blasting huge quantities of water mixed with chemicals and sand deep into a well, at pressures high enough to fracture rock and enable the oil or gas to escape. This controversial method of extraction creates a host of environmental and health problems, including air and water pollution.
Coal
Coal is a solid, carbon-heavy rock that comes in four main varieties differentiated largely by carbon content: lignite, sub-bituminous, bituminous, and anthracite. Nearly all of the coal burned in the United States is sub-bituminous or bituminous. Found in abundance in states including Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, these coal types are middle of the pack in terms of carbon content and the heat energy they can produce. Regardless of variety, however, all coal is dirty. Indeed, in terms of emissions, it’s the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel we can burn.
Coal is extracted via two methods: Underground mining uses heavy machinery to cut coal from deep underground deposits, while surface mining (also known as strip mining) removes entire layers of soil and rock to access coal deposits below. Strip mining accounts for about two-thirds of coal sourced in the United States. Although both forms of mining are detrimental to the environment, strip mining is particularly destructive, uprooting and polluting entire ecosystems.
Coal and the power plants that burn it account for less than a third of U.S. electricity generation, down from more than half in 2008. Cleaner, cheaper alternatives—including natural gas, renewables like solar and wind, and energy-efficient technologies—make coal far less economically attractive. Today, coal-fired power plants continue to close, despite the Trump administration’s promises of a revived industry. Future demand for coal is expected to remain flat or to fall as market forces propel alternative energy sources forward.
Natural gas
Composed mostly of methane, natural gas is generally considered either conventional or unconventional, depending on where it’s found underground. Conventional natural gas is located in porous and permeable rock beds or mixed into oil reservoirs and can be accessed via standard drilling. Unconventional natural gas is essentially any form of gas that is too difficult or expensive to extract via regular drilling, requiring a special stimulation technique, such as fracking.
In the United States, the development and refinement of processes like fracking have helped make the country the world’s top producer of natural gas since 2009—and the biggest consumer of it, too. Abundant in the United States, natural gas covers nearly 30 percent of U.S. energy needs and is the largest source of energy for electricity. Forecasts suggest it will become an even greater part of the U.S. energy mix through 2050, threatening to exacerbate air and water pollution.
Disadvantages of Fossil Fuels
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Suncor Mine and tailings ponds near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Aaron Huey/National Geographic/Getty Images
Land degradation
Unearthing, processing, and moving underground oil, gas, and coal deposits take an enormous toll on our landscapes and ecosystems. The fossil fuel industry leases vast stretches of land for infrastructure such as wells, pipelines, access roads, as well as facilities for processing, waste storage, and waste disposal. In the case of strip mining, entire swaths of terrain—including forests and whole mountaintops—are scraped and blasted away to expose underground coal or oil. Even after operations cease, the nutrient-leached land will never return to what it once was.
As a result, critical wildlife habitat—land crucial for breeding and migration—ends up fragmented and destroyed. Even animals able to leave can end up suffering, as they’re often forced into less-than-ideal habitat and must compete with existing wildlife for resources.
Water pollution
Coal, oil, and gas development pose myriad threats to our waterways and groundwater. Coal mining operations wash acid runoff into streams, rivers, and lakes and dump vast quantities of unwanted rock and soil into streams. Oil spills and leaks during extraction or transport can pollute drinking water sources and jeopardize entire freshwater or ocean ecosystems. Fracking and its toxic fluids have also been found to contaminate drinking water, a fact that the Environmental Protection Agency was slow to recognize.
Meanwhile, all drilling, fracking, and mining operations generate enormous volumes of wastewater, which can be laden with heavy metals, radioactive materials, and other pollutants. Industries store this waste in open-air pits or underground wells that can leak or overflow into waterways and contaminate aquifers with pollutants linked to cancer, birth defects, neurological damage, and much more.
Emissions
Fossil fuels emit harmful air pollutants long before they’re burned. Indeed, some 12.6 million Americans are exposed daily to toxic air pollution from active oil and gas wells and from transport and processing facilities. These include benzene (linked to childhood leukemia and blood disorders) and formaldehyde (a cancer-causing chemical). A booming fracking industry will bring that pollution to more backyards, despite mounting evidence of the practice’s serious health impacts. Mining operations are no better, especially for the miners themselves, generating toxic airborne particulate matter. Strip mining—particularly in places such as Canada’s boreal forest—can release giant carbon stores held naturally in the wild.
Burning Fossil Fuels
Global warming pollution
When we burn oil, coal, and gas, we don’t just meet our energy needs—we drive the current global warming crisis as well. Fossil fuels produce large quantities of carbon dioxide when burned. Carbon emissions trap heat in the atmosphere and lead to climate change. In the United States, the burning of fossil fuels, particularly for the power and transportation sectors, accounts for about three-quarters of our carbon emissions.
Other forms of air pollution
Fossil fuels emit more than just carbon dioxide when burned. Coal-fired power plants singlehandedly generate 42 percent of dangerous mercury emissions in the United States, as well as two-thirds of U.S. sulfur dioxide emissions (which contribute to acid rain) and the vast majority of soot (particulate matter) in our air. Meanwhile, fossil fuel–powered cars, trucks, and boats are the main contributors of poisonous carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide, which produces smog (and respiratory illnesses) on hot days.
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The Syncrude Canada Mildred Lake Oil Sands project plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Larry MacDougal/AP
Ocean acidification
When we burn oil, coal, and gas, we change the ocean’s basic chemistry, making it more acidic. Our seas absorb as much as a quarter of all man-made carbon emissions. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution (and our coal-burning ways), the ocean has become 30 percent more acidic. As the acidity in our waters goes up, the amount of calcium carbonate—a substance used by oysters, lobsters, and countless other marine organisms to form shells—goes down. This can slow growth rates, weaken shells, and imperil entire food chains.
Ocean acidification impacts coastal communities as well. In the Pacific Northwest, it’s estimated to have cost the oyster industry millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
Building a Clean Energy Future
We’re not locked into a fossil fuel future, however. We’ve made major progress in scaling up renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States over the past decade, thanks to federal, state, and local policies that have helped to grow the clean energy economy. We’re also using energy much more efficiently than we used to.
State and federal incentives, along with falling prices, are pushing our nation—and the world—toward cleaner, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Renewables are on track to become a cheaper source of energy than fossil fuels, which is spurring a boom in clean energy development and jobs. Significantly higher levels of renewables can be integrated into our existing grid, though care must be taken to site and build renewable energy responsibly.
Meanwhile, energy efficiency is our cleanest, cheapest, and largest energy resource, contributing more to the nation’s energy needs over the past 40 years than oil, coal, natural gas, or nuclear power. It accounts for more than 2.2 million U.S. jobs—at least 10 times more than oil and gas drilling or coal mining.
If we can put the right policies in place, we are poised to make dramatic progress toward a clean energy future. In fact, a recent NRDC report finds that we can slash U.S. fossil fuel use by 80 percent by 2050. To do that, we will need to cut energy demand in half, grow renewable energy resources so that they provide at least 80 percent of our power, electrify almost all forms of transportation, and get fossil fuels out of our buildings. That will require sustained, coordinated policy efforts from all levels of government, the private sector, and local communities. But we know we can do it using the proven, demonstrated clean energy technologies that we have today.
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 7:12 PM Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joseph Igietseme:
Of course, you didn't know that China was late in the game of renewable energy, because it didn't understand the need for renewable energy at first just like you. When pollution started killing a large number of its citizens and people couldn't breathe properly in Beijing, no body convinced China to join the race. Now China has surpassed other countries that started before it, and its renewable energy has passed its fossil fuels, when faced by extinction and death. You didn't know that.
Furthermore, China has set 2030 as the year it wants to abandon fossil fuels completely. You don't know difference between moving to renewable energy and investing reinvesting in fossil fuels. China like other countries is abandoning fossil fuels for renewable energy. You are the only Nigerian I know that is still living and stuck in the Glacier Age. You belong to the Stone Age where people are still using primitive tools to survive. Everyone else has seen the light and moved on.
Typical Nigerian, you are only concerned about yourself. You don't care about your fellow Nigerians. That's why you installed solar panels in your Agenebode house and advocating for fossil fuels to kill your fellow Nigerians in Nigerians in Nigeria.
Like I said before, every country is abandoning fossil fuels for renewable energy and Nigeria is not an exception. I'm glad Buhari is doing the right thing. He is the first President of Nigeria to see the light and investing in renewable energies. Others like Obasanjo and Jonathan were complete dummies.
Kayode
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 4:22 PM, Joseph Igietseme
<jigie...@gmail.com> wrote:
""""Although China currently has the world's largest installed capacity of hydro, solar and wind power, its energy needs are so large that in 2019, renewable sources provided 26% of its electricity generation[6]—compared to 17% in the U.S.A.[7]—with most of the remainder provided by coal power plants. In early 2020, renewable energy comprised about 40% of China's total installed electric power capacity, and 26% of total power generation—with solar and wind combined having more capacity than hydropower.[8] Nevertheless, the share of renewable sources in the energy mix had been gradually rising in recent years."""........,.Excerpt from Kaylee Adebayo's info below!
Now, tell us how this information is different from Joseph Igietseme's point.
As JUI said previously, since Nigeria is in a hurry for industrialization, and it's not in the race for cleaner energy technology research, it doesnt have to acquire the the new energy technologies at the unsustainable exorbitant prices they are now, or wait for them to be perfected and cheap before embarking on its industrial and production economy drive. If Nigeria is SERIOUS, gas is available and cheap in the country (a lot glaring away daily), and the technology for electricity generation from gas is out there and still in use by industrialized nations. What's wrong with Nigeria starting with the gas-based energy approach and be ready to move forward whenever others make a significant change to alternative energy sources? That' premise of my outlook on this issue is valid and very different from somebody saying that Nigeria is going to space while it cannot even produce cars successfully.
In fact, the availability of regular electricity via gas will position Nigeria to get involved in the cleaner energy technology research and not simply wait to be a ready market.
JUI POINT remains!
Take care
JUI
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 3:34 PM Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Renewable energy in China
China is the world's leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources, with over double the generation of the second-ranking country, the United States. By the end of 2019, the country had a total capacity of 790GW [1][2] of renewable power, mainly from hydroelectric, solar and wind power. By the end of 2019, China's hydropower capacity reached 356 GW.[3] China's installed capacity of solar power reached 240 GW in 2020.[4] As of Q3 2020, China's wind power capacity was 224 GW.[5] China's renewable energy sector is growing faster than its fossil fuels and nuclear power capacity.
Although China currently has the world's largest installed capacity of hydro, solar and wind power, its energy needs are so large that in 2019, renewable sources provided 26% of its electricity generation[6]—compared to 17% in the U.S.A.[7]—with most of the remainder provided by coal power plants. In early 2020, renewable energy comprised about 40% of China's total installed electric power capacity, and 26% of total power generation—with solar and wind combined having more capacity than hydropower.[8] Nevertheless, the share of renewable sources in the energy mix had been gradually rising in recent years.
China sees renewables as a source of energy security and not just only to reduce carbon emission.[9] China's Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution issued by China's State Council in September 2013, illustrates the government's desire to increase the share of renewables in China's energy mix.[10] Unlike oil, coal and gas, the supplies of which are finite and subject to geopolitical tensions, renewable energy systems can be built and used wherever there is sufficient water, wind, and sun.[11]
As Chinese renewable manufacturing has grown, the costs of renewable energy technologies have dropped dramatically. Innovation has helped, but the main driver of reduced costs has been market expansion.[11] In 2015, China became the world's largest producer of photovoltaic power, with 43 GW of total installed capacity.[12][13] From 2005 to 2014, production of solar cells in China has expanded 100-fold.[11] However, China is not expected to achieve grid parity – when an alternate source of energy is as cheap or cheaper than power purchased from the grid—until 2022.[14] In 2017, investments in renewable energy amounted to US$279.8 billion worldwide, with China accounting for US$126.6 billion or 45% of the global investments.[15]
In February 2021 China’s National Energy Administration announced that by 2030, China should acquire 40% of its total power usage from renewable and nuclear sources.[16]
On Sunday, February 28, 2021, 12:39:08 PM EST, Joseph Igietseme <jigie...@gmail.com> wrote:
The salient POINT is that the industrialized nations still rely on fossil fuels as the MAJOR source of their electricity for production economies. The nuclear, wind, solar etc systems remain as secondary sources.
The REALITY is that, while some of these industrialized nations aspire toward cleaner electricity sources, the dream is decades away. China is still mopping up crude oil from around the world despite it's progress in solar and alternative sources of electricity. The recent nuclear power accident in Japan is a wake-up alert for most nations because if Japan (with all its due diligence) is still making mistakes with nuclear power plants, imagine what will happen in Nigeria.
Besides, since Nigeria is in a hurry for industrialization, and it's not in the race for cleaner energy technology research, it doesnt have to wait until the new energy technologies are perfected before embarking on its industrial and production economy drive. Gas is available and cheap in Nigeria, and the technology for electricity generation from gas is out there and still in use by industrialized nations. Why shouldn't Nigeria start with that approach and be ready to move forward whenever others make a significant change to alternative energy sources. That's the premise of my outlook on this issue. In fact, the availability of regular electricity via gas will position Nigeria to get involved in the cleaner energy technology research and not simply wait to be a ready market.
Brother Kaylee can yab all he wants. He must've observed that I don't respond his name-calling & denigration. JUI knows what he knows, and does not pretend that he know when he does not know. After all, nobody can know EVERYTHING. When Brother Kaylee lambasted me for saying that Kamla Harris would be the likely VP candidate to Biden & the ticket could win, I just left him ALONE because he felt a Black woman couldn't do it! The rest is now for the history book...
Happy Sunday to y'all
Pls take the vaccines when it's your turn...they are SAFE and effective!
Take care
JUI
----------------------------------On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 11:20 AM Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Oluwatoyin Adepoju:
What differentiates Joseph Igietseme from Chinedu Nebo, the one time Clown of Nigeria's Ministry of Power during Jonathan Administration who told the Senate of Nigeria during his confirmation hearing that there are witches at the Ministry of Power that are using witchcraft to cause blackouts in Nigeria; that he wanted to be Minister of Power in order to rid the Ministry of the witches and witchcraft, when asked by the Senators how he wanted to transform the Ministry to generate enough electricity for Nigeria?
Yet the stupid Senators overwhelmingly voted for Chinedu to confirm him, only for him to generate 2000 megawatts of power for Nigeria.
This is the same Joseph Igietseme that has lived in America for a long time now developing a ridiculous idea for Nigeria's electricity.
Kayode
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 9:37 AM, Kayode Adebayo
<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Oluwatoyin Adepoju:
What is unfair about my criticism of Joseph Igietseme's idea of using fossil fuels to develop Nigeria? Nigeria has been using fossil fuels to generate electricity for a long time without success, apart from the fact that they are detrimental to the environment and the health of Nigerians. Do you know how many people die from cancer every year in Nigeria, due to pollution from fossil fuels, while millions suffer from other health problems? Yet, Nigeria experiences shortages of gas to power its turbines to generate electricity every day leading to blackout. What advantage does fossil fuel have?
The same Joseph Igietseme said that he is using Solar Panels to generate electricity in his Agenebode house in Nigeria, why doesn't he use generator that uses fossil fuel to generate electricity for his Agenebode house in Nigeria?
Joseph Igietseme is stuck in paleolithic age of destruction.
Kayode
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 8:12 AM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
<toyin....@gmail.com> wrote:
Kayode,
Your fine ideas are not helped by the denigrative references to the person you are responding to.
Toyo
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 12:24 'Kayode Adebayo' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Joseph Igietseme:
"Apart from the need to lay the fundamentals for the necessary intelligence for security in the country" --- Joseph Igietseme
1. What do you mean by "the need to lay the fundamentals for the necessary intelligence for security in the country"?
2. What fundamentals are you trying to lay?
3. What is "necessary Intelligence"?
4. What is "sustainable security"?
5. "America & the rest of the industrialized world still depend on fossil fuels for over 80% of their power need for industrial production" --- Joseph Igietseme
Joseph Igietseme, America only uses 63% of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, petroleum, etc) to generate electricity. The rest of America's energy production comes from Wind, Solar, Nuclear, Hydro, Photovoltaic, Solar Thermal, Geothermal, Biomass, Landfill Gas and Biogenic which are renewable energy sources. The whole world is moving away from fossil fuels due to Climate Change aka Global Warming, while you're stuck in the paleolithic age. Don't you know how Climate Change is destroying the whole world? If you don't know the effects of Global Warming go to Texas that just suffered from the effects of Global Warming recently. Nigeria doesn't need a Minister of Science and Technology that is stuck in the stone age like you. It's because of stupid people like Ogbonnaiya Onu with stupid ideas as Nigeria's Science and Technology Minister who wants to take Nigeria to Mars, while Nigeria can't produce a simple technology called Telephone that Nigeria remains underdeveloped till today. What differentiates you from the retard called Onu?
Nigeria doesn't need fossil fuels to develop. Nigeria needs renewable energy for sustainable development.
Kayode
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 4:01 PM, Joseph Igietseme
<jigie...@gmail.com> wrote:
Brother Joe Onuorah,
As we discussed in another forum yesterday, historically, the Nigerian leaderships have not had the political will to lay the pillars for sustainable security, infrastructures and industrial development in the country. In the apt words of late Dr Valentine Ojo of the blessed memory: National development does not run on Empty#
Apart from the need to lay the fundamentals for the necessary intelligence for security in the country, is it not the FACT that without regular electricity, the industrialization aspiration of Nigeria will remain a pipe dream? America & the rest of the industrialized world still depend on fossil fuels for over 80% of their power need for industrial production. Sadly, somebody is already selling solar energy to Nigeria & we're romancing it....don't get me wrong, JUI has solar system for his home at Agenebode; but won't recommend it for the needed national science & technology R&D operation & industrialization aspiration at this time. You don't start learning mechanic with space rockets.
Is Nigeria not overdue for for 4 parallel East-West & 4 parallel North-South Hwys to connect the country, create jobs & boost transportation & commerce? Does anybody out there see this as a national developmental & integration imperative? And d'u need rocket science & phenomenal leadership skills to appreciate & implement this? When a nation is in debt because of honest visible developments, I don't think anybody will complain.
We're just not SERIOUS ja-re......the selfish & greed-driven personal acquisitions we derive from Nigeria spinning on her wheels appear to be ok with most members of the leadership.
Take note: In the apt words of former US President Harry Truman: "" In periods where there is no (effective/serious) leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.""
*According to Nelson Mandela: As a mortal being, "You have a limited time stay on Earth, & You must try & use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be.".
The above statement assumes a greater significance when the Almighty Allah gives you the unique opportunity to be in the leadership of the country!
Wallahi, my First project as Minister of Science & Technology or even a DG in the Min of Education in Nigeria is to ENSURE that gas is piped to all federal & state university campuses for the reliable & constant generation of electricity in all campuses. That project will be followed by regular water supply to all campuses.
From the success of those projects, extensions into the nearby communities & businesses will take off. Try me......!
Take care
JUI
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 12:41 PM Joseph Onuorah <nnam...@yahoo.com> wrote:
JUI:
Indeed security situation is something of a huge concern in Nigeria, not only with Boko Haram terrorist group and in “certain parts of Nigeria” but pretty much everywhere in the country.
I am sure you are aware of what is going on in Edo. How about all over the country where robbery and kidnapping are the major threats to people?
No doubt the case of Boko Haram is more deadly especially in terms of number often kidnapped or killed, the vulnerable children often targeted, the brazenness of the group, etc. Nonetheless, the fact is that throughout the country, security is lacking to a point where many in diaspora, who truly want to go back, are afraid to do so. And many within the country are in perpetual search for where to run to. That does not help the nation or any nation.
I truly believe that finding solutions to these key issues facing the country would bring lots of talent into the country, help nurture and harness the talent within and help move the country in the path for sustained development. Top on the list of key issues include: Security, Healthcare, Electricity and Water supply. Nigeria has the wherewithal to provide and maintain these things. In my view, these are national problems that require dedicated effort and resources to fight. But success requires honesty, respect for each other, acceptance that what happens in one area affects all areas, focus on what is good for all and working together to find lasting solutions. Sadly such has not been fully embraced and current focus on looking at these from the perspective of whom to blame versus on how to solve the problems, makes it hard to find such solutions. The result is that we all suffer.
Joe.
So Nigeria has not been able to use it's intelligence and security agencies to get to the roots of Boko Haram and these frequent abductions in schools and PUBLIC places; after all these years, spanning several Govts and regimes?
Talk of INEPTITUDE at all levels; or is there SOMETHING in these abductions that is BENEFICIAL to Nigeria that we may know later? Are people being scared away from certain parts of Nigeria? Is there revenue from the news or incidents? When is the time for some people to concede that they can't run a Govt that protects the citizens? Too many mind-boggling QUESTIONS...
This is all Spooky and Messed Up!
Take care
JUI
-------------------------On Fri, Feb 26, 2021, 9:35 PM Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Like I said before, Service Chiefs are not the issue. Buhari can change Service Chiefs million times and Nigeria's security problems will persist. People advocating change of Service Chiefs were uninformed. You need to know and understand a problem before you can solve the problem. I'm sure Buhari himself knows that. That's why he resisted changing them until he finally caved in.
Unfortunately, many Nigerians don't understand Nigeria's security problems. That's why they called for Service Chiefs change. Now they know.
I've recommended how Nigeria can solve its security problems many times before and until those recommendations are implemented, Nigeria's security problems will persist.
Kayode
317 Schoolgirls Abducted in Jangebe Attack – Official
The police say they had begun a joint search with the military for the students and their kidnappers.
Premium Times
At least 317 schoolgirls were abducted by bandits in the Friday morning raid on Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State, the police have said.
Residents said the bandits woke up people in the neighbourhood as they raided the school, shooting into the air for over two hours.
The latest attack is the third mass kidnapping of schoolchildren in the last three months in Northern Nigeria, raising fears among Nigerians in rural communities.
“317 students were kidnapped by the armed bandits in Government Girls Science Secondary School Jangebe in Talata Mafara,” Mohammad Shehu, the police spokesperson in the state told PREMIUM TIMES.
He said the police and the military had begun a joint search for the students and their kidnappers.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Abutu Yaro fdc, the Force Commander Operations Hadarin Daji, Major General Aminu Bande, Brigade Commander 1 Brigade, Nigeria Army, Gusau and other state government officials led a heavily armed Re-enforcement team to Jangebe,” he said.
This, Mr Shehu said, was to complement ongoing rescue efforts in the locations where the students were believed to have been taken by their captors.
He also appealed for calmness while assuring that the students will be rescued.
Earlier, the state government had confirmed the mass abduction to PREMIUM TIMES, but said it did not know the number of students kidnapped.
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