• Nigeria: Real Ownership of Indigenous Oil Blocks Revealed

    This Day (Lagos), 14 March 2013

    Contrary to the claim by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Business and Rules, Senator Ita Enang, last week that 83 per cent of oil blocks in the country are owned by northerners, investigations by THISDAY have revealed that 88 per cent of the oil blocks are owned by multinational oil companies.

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  • Finding excuses to drain more funds .
    Mar 14 2013, 22:15

    Fact is that the time conditioned examination of the petroleum saga is contoured to conceal major part of the debate. Question is this, what year were the oil well bocks awarded to individual ownership in the nation . Why is all these debates concentrating on recent changes without due reference to how it was before the modern allocations ? Men and women in the Military at the out stage of military occupation of all oil producing parts of P.H , Eleme and etc. had the war front in the petroleum wells. If that structure have become altered in recent years , the question of opportunism have not been disputed . What are we talking about.

  • foryohjonathan0000
    Mar 15 2013, 05:20

    WELL, THIS IS THE QUESTION THAT WE MUST ASK. NIGERIA CAN DO IT, BUT WHEN COUNTRIES LIKE ZIMBABWE TRY TO DO THE SAME CONCERNING THE LAND - WHAT DID WE HEARD FROM OUTSIDERS?? THEY CRY FOWL. WHY IS IT THAT SOME THESE OF OUR AFRICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WILL NOT SIT DOWN THINK AND ANALYZE THINGS CAREFULLY BEFORE EXECUTING THEM?? WHY AFRICA?? AS ALL AFRICANS DO, DON'T YOU THINK THAT INDIGENOUS ZIMBABWE DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO THEIR LANDS?? DON'T YOU??

  • sfami2007
    Mar 15 2013, 11:12

    Re: Ownership of Oil Blocks

    The fact is that most of us Nigerians are not patriotic. This explains why serious national malaise is always trivialized with the consequence that such an issue is then reduced to tribal or religious lines thereby polarizing people along those lines.

    The Chairman of the Sanate Committee on Business and Rules, Senator Ita Enang made the comment attributed to him on Oil Block ownership when for no justification some Senators reduced the issue of making Oil Companies socially responsible to their immediate operating environment into regional political issue. But the fact is that the issue raised by Senator Enang though made hastily is an issue that all Senators should develop a genuine interest on.

    Justice is a fundamental value in a law governed State. We all know that during the Military era the word 'justice' was observed in an invited comma 'injustice.' So if those who held sway during that period of that abberation shared Oil Blocks to themselves and their cronies a responsible Senate in a democracy should ensure that such arbitrary act is corrected without any delay.

    But as it is characteristic of the Nigerian Senate since the inception of democracy after the military rule such a weighty issue would be reduced into triviality and if care is not taken innocent citizens would engage themselves in orgy of blood-letting.

    The issue should not be who owns Oil Block. The real issue is the method through which such ownership was acquired. This is the real issue.

  • REASON
    Mar 14 2013, 09:40

    THIS PUBLICATION IS INTENDED TO COVER UP TRUTH. THE DISTINGUISHED SENATOR DID NOT SAY THAT NORTHERNERS OWNED 83% OF TOTAL OIL BLOCKS. HE SAID THAT NORTHERNERS OWNED 83% OF THE TOTAL OIL BLOCKS THAT ARE IN THE HANDS OF NIGERIANS! THE THIEFING NORTHERNERS WOULD USE YOU TO COVER UP TRUTH.YOU ARE AN OPPRESSOR A NON PATROTIC NIGERIAN! YOU ARE A DESTROYER.

  • Annie Ezechukwu<annizecks8>
    Mar 19 2013, 07:36

    Whether owned by Northerners or not, the time has come for the revolutionary overthrow of these comprador vampire bats that have sucked Nigeria into perpetual anaemia, Haba!