Comments on naijablog: More on Bonga..

www.phcityonline.com is an online city portal; str...

2008-11-29T23:20:00.000+01:00

www.phcityonline.com is an online city portal; striving to show-case the potentials of Port Harcourt city at the same time providing at the finger tips of every one; goods and services in Port Harcourt e.g schools, hotels, bars , clubs, flight schedule etc

...and its in the dry dock after a "boating mishap...

2008-07-06T00:08:00.000+01:00

...and its in the dry dock after a "boating mishap" during an excercise, or so I've heard

Those boats are NOT frigates, they are coastal pat...

2008-07-04T14:20:00.000+01:00

Those boats are NOT frigates, they are coastal patrol boats, with very short ranges. There is only one frigate in the Nigerian Navy and it is the Flagship of the fleet - NNS Aradu

or..."Smokeless fire?" or "Smoke and Mirrors"? or ...

2008-07-04T13:33:00.000+01:00

or..."Smokeless fire?" or "Smoke and Mirrors"? or "Fact/Fiction"? or "They Say..." (God, i'm on a roll, and God, I"M GOOD!!)
or "An Official Tale", or "A Tale of Two Boats", or "Tale Boat" or "tail Bait".
.maybe i shoulda quit while i was ahead...?
lol

Looks like the militants are set for the Niger Del...

2008-07-04T11:38:00.000+01:00

Looks like the militants are set for the Niger Delta summit.

'derin, the point of the post is to uderscore how inept the Nigerian navy is. One of the vessels deployed saw service in US in the 1950's before being decommissioned (by the US Coastguard) and acquired by us.

Quite frankly, rather than tolerating the losses to bunkering and militancy (or are they the same thing now, i'm a bit confused), the govt should simply take on Blackwater or some such Dogs of war, pay them 1% commission on all oil lifted and take care of the militants once and for all.

All this pissing in the wind with militancy is long passed its sell-by date.

Nonsense!

@ anon 12:25, exactly what I thought too. :-)

2008-07-04T05:37:00.000+01:00

@ anon 12:25, exactly what I thought too. :-)

Better title for this post woulda been 'Deep Throa...

2008-07-03T12:25:00.000+01:00

Better title for this post woulda been 'Deep Throat'..

Being slightly cynical in nature, I find it hard t...

2008-07-03T11:22:00.000+01:00

Being slightly cynical in nature, I find it hard to believe that militants attack oil installations just to score points against the government and oil companies. I mean, they supposedly make money when the oil's flowing from oil bunkering. Even though I have no evidence whatsoever, I wonder about the possibility of militant leaders (or politicians?) betting big money on the price of oil, knowing that major attacks on oil installations would inevitably increase the price oil. With margin trading, and the money made from oil bunkering, they could be making millions, even tens of millions of dollars on each attack.

If I could figure out who they were, and play the oil market the way they do, I bet I would win every time (Hey, I said I was cynical!). On the other side, if the government knew who they were as well, they could increase security on oil installations when those investors made a major move. However, the number of kilometres of pipeline to protect probably makes that option impractical. The militants could also use different investment companies every time. :(

This isn't stopping in a while, regardless of the efforts of the government to better the lives of the people of the Niger Delta. There's too much money to be made.

Erm, so sorry, i'm a bit slow this morning, what e...

2008-07-03T10:50:00.000+01:00

Erm, so sorry, i'm a bit slow this morning, what exactly is the point of this story? I'm not getting it biko.