Jerry Douglas' Blog

Chisco, 35, stands ankle deep in a polluted swamp, boiling up crude over a fire. He employs three people. "I was jobless, but I have a younger brother who read geology at university and he taught me the process," he told the newsmen, adding that it was hazardous work -- "you can easily burn the whole refinery to the ground". Godswill, who also declined to give his surname, teamed up with two of his friends to start a refinery site two years ago. His main job is maintaining a depot where crude oil is stored in a large hole that he dug in the ground. Whenever police or military discover the site, he says, he simply pays them off. "Sometimes we have to run away and they burn down the site," he said. "Then we just make a new one."  See one normal working day of him and his company below: READ MORE:  http://news.naij.com/43375.html

Liverpool foorballer Luis Suarez is in trouble again but this time he is the victim and not the bad guy. The police in Liverpool are investigating death threats sent to Luis Suarez. The threats are coming from suspected Liverpool fans who do not want to see the Uruguayan striker leave Merseyside for  Arsenal . Arsenal has placed a mouth watering bid for Suarez and despite Liverpool’s attempts to make him stay he is keen on joining Gunners. Most of the threats have been online, some of them via  Twitter . "If by any chance Liverpool do accept a bid, and you move, I will find you and I will kill you,"  read one tweet aimed at Suarez. " Can Arsenal just f*** off. If Luis Suarez leaves I’ll hunt him down and kill him,"  read another. The police have confirmed that they are aware of these threats and are looking into it. " People should be aware they can be held accountable to the law for anything they write on social networking sites,"  said a...

Goal has ranked Sunday Mba as the 24 best player of the 2013 football year ahead of the likes of Ibrahimovic, Suarez, Isco, Mata and Lampard. Hazard and Oscar didn't even make the list. This is a first time ranking for Mba in the annual goalcom top 50 after he became a revelation for the super eagle's in the recently concluded AFCON which he scored to clinch the title. When Keshi decided to take Mba along with five other home based players to the AFCON tournament he had a lot of raised eyebrows but the 24-year-old played better than many of the nation’s more heralded foreign contingent. Having started the tournament on the bench, Mba was Nigeria’s hero in the knockout stages. He scored the winner in the quarter-final against Cote d’Ivoire to spell the end for Didier Drogba’s trophyless ‘golden generation’. Then in the final itself, Mba fired home the only goal against Burkina Faso to gift Nigeria their first Afcon title since 1994. The 24-year-old was also one of Niger...

“You have a Minister, Nyesom Wike, who does no work in the Ministry [where lecturers are on strike] but is gallivanting all over Nigeria and the world in the interest of Rivers State politics and President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 ambitions. "You have a man, Chinda, who suffers no life-threatening injuries but who is flown on the president’s order to London at public expense. You have a man who could have been treated in any local hospital for superficial injuries but was shamelessly shipped abroad...  "You have an entire army of men flown from Nigeria to London in First Class at public expense to go and pose for fake pictures and collect large allowances all because they have in Abuja a man who does not give a damn about fighting corruption. It gives an all-familiar meaning to the term: Wike-leaks!" Investigations by Sahara Reporters show that Rivers State legislator, Hon Michael Chinda, was discharged from London’s Bupa Cromwell Hospital on Saturday, a day...

After watching these clips, I wonder where we are heading to in Nigeria. See Video of how the lawmaker tried to break in with his thugs below; The video captured an attack led by a member of the Rivers State house of assembly  in an attempt to impeach the speaker of the house. The Speaker and 26 other members of the house are loyal to the governor, Rotimi Amaechi, while five others led by Evans Bapakaye Bipi, representing Ogu/Bolo constituency are loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience.

As the Goal 50 for the 2012-13 season draws ever closer, we review some of the best performers from around the globe over the last 12 months We are now just weeks away from the announcement of the prestigious Goal 50 accolade as we reward the best individual performers of the 2012-13 season. Since our last Goal 50 was presented in July 2012 to Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, there have been a number of other individual prizes handed out across the world. Below, we list 50 of the most prominent from around the globe. AFRICA Award Winner  Africa-based Player of the Year  Mohamed Aboutrika (Al-Ahly)  CAF Champions League Golden Boot (2012)  Emmanuel Clottey (Berekum Chelsea)  African Footballer of the Year  Yaya Toure (Manchester City)  Africa Cup of Nations Best Player  Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso)  Africa Cup of Natons Top Goalscorer (Shared)  E Emenike (NIG)/W Mubarak (GHA) AMERICAS Award Winner  Copa Liberta...