Our insatiable appetite for oil to feed our ravenous SUV's force us to deal with people we'd rather not do business with. Mind you, is dealing with us making them what they are?

"Ah, the whites are coming," "It's like ice cream vans in your country."

Would a young gang member in Port Harcourt really say that? Katherine, you blow the credibility of the rest of your story with this "guff"

What is meant is the Oeebos are coming. When suggested getting armed that really got everyone worried, an Oeebo with a gun. As long as the Star amber stays cold and the ink stay on the Niara what’s the beef. As the Beetle said ‘nothing is real’.

#4

True, but I know a fair number of decent Nigerians as well who are no happy with the ongoing situation.

Maybe they should give their oil industry over to England for safe keeping? Works for us. Or not ...

A frightening example of an intimate knowledge of UK society - the ice cream van quote!!!!!!

#2Tatties ower the side

I am a bit suspicious. The other day they run a story allegedly by one of Mugabe's thugs. which claimed they placed a man in a bath
filled with “cement” or concrete to people who actually use it

They then carried the bath to a boat and dumped this into a river with the man still alive.

Question- you ever carried a bath full of concrete, do you know how much it weighs

Question-how in hell do you pick up a bath full of concrete with a man in it, unless you have put very strong handles on the side?

Question-if the man was laid down he would presumably drown in the
concrete If Not when it set solid he would not be able to breathe.

Question-if he wasn’t laying down was he sitting up? Now it’s getting
crazier,then 10 people carry him to the river and throw him in to drown.

Easier to just shoot him in the head.I don’t believe a word of that story and
this one is no more believable. Reporters earning a rather dubious living I suggest.

Why don't they just do what they did in Scotland, take the oil and placate the natives with a small extra allowance per head of population.

So people are not being kidnapped and Mugabe is not a bad man.

This article is absolute garbage, as somebody who has been to Port Harcourt on numerous occasions kidnapping has been endemic for years............... especially ice cream van owners?? What a load of crap

#1 Are you having a laff? If someone walked up behind you and gave you a good kick in the slats, you would blame western civilization for making them do it. "It's all our fault! If only we were living in huts and walking to the market all would be well..."

The best will be when the oil is all gone in a few years. At that point all the crazies in Africa and the Middle East can throw stones at each other until they are all dead.

Good article, but I find it lacks the reasons for those kidnappings. Are just hoodlums, or do have something great on their agenda...The comment above about the cement thing...I don't believe in that sort of behavior...Just a bullet would be nice...But...a ransom is much better...Being rather new to this field, I am very ignorant as to they whys of all those kidnappings...May be it's just a bunch of mixed of true Africans that are just having of bit of neurotic fun, in a way, for what that white man has done to many beautiful tribes. Here in the USA, today, I just heard on the news that the corporations of this country are trashing Indian graveyards and Holy Places of Worship that have been used by Indians for over 11,000 years! My grandmother was born in an Indian Nation in 1888 or so. Please note that I have not used the white man's term of reservation. As far as the kidnappings go, from what I read above, the good side of the events is that their returning most, if not all of those folks. Since this great article is about Africa, I'll like to see something written about rebels somewhere, that is, if the are, who are murdering Gorillas for food. I'd like to know why for a short story I'm working on. So far, I only have rough note. It's about an African tribe that truly loves Gorillas as brother and sisters, and each time they catch a Gorilla murderer, they cook and eat them...By the way I'm practice Jainism, so I'm just a bit of a Vegetarian, but in that particular case, Hey..what the hell...Why not???

Anyone who has been to Nigeria will testify to the corruption and crime in that country.
It has never been a friendly country to whites or their own. Tribal fueding is rife, as is murder rape etc etc.
As for the idiot who thinks Mugabe is a nice guy.. Go and take a holiday there. I guarabtee you will come back with a different opinion of Mugabe and his country

#4 , #14, #18. Your comments are RACIALLY PREJUDICED.
I have lived in Nigeria and I totally disagree with your comments. Please ask yourself, if it was that bad then how do expatriates survive there. With regard to criminal activities, how much drugs comes out of east europe and south america ? is it the email scams that make Nigerians notorius ? How many Nigerians will it take to send 10,000 emails ? answer is 1 - in one day with an email extractor!. Nigeria as most developing countries is passing through economically trying times - as did the western countries a long time ago - and of course corrupt governments and social upheaval are some of the products of this. Please try and make more informed comments about situations.