Nigerian Times

Over 100 people have been killed in a pipeline blast Thursday afternoon, in the Ijegun suburb on the outskirts of Lagos. The fire started when the oil pipeline was ruptured by a road construction bulldozer. Several people, houses and schools nearby were engulfed by the flames and fumes of the pipeline fire as it spread. Many residents have fled the location and the injured have been taken to nearby hospitals in Lagos. More than 200 people were killed in a similar pipeline fire on Friday May 12, 2006, and they were given a mass burial. Pipeline explosions are common in the world's eighth-largest oil exporter where over 2, 000 people have been killed in previous oil pipeline explosions often caused by ruptured pipelines vandalized by illegal oil bunkerers. The oil pipelines run through the swamps and creeks from the Niger Delta and crisscrossing villages and towns to reach other parts of the most populous country in Africa where the majority of the people are poor and cut off fr...

" We told them that this is not due to government neglect but to some imbalances in the system and the inability of some oil companies to meet the Memoranda of Understanding they signed with the people." ~ Gov. Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa, in Nigeria , on how he secured the release of the local hostages of the militants in Southern-Ijaw Local Government Area. This is how the PDP governors have incited Niger Delta militants against the multinational oil companies. They misappropriate the revenue allocations for their states and lie to the militants that the multinational companies have failed in their obligations to the host communities. The irony of corruption in Nigeria is the complicity of Nigerian churches and mosques. The fact is Nigerian pagans are more honest and transparent than the so called Christians and Muslims. Nigerians fear the Juju than they fear the Almighty God. I have since passed a vote of No Confidence in Nigerian Christians and Muslims, because I have ...