As Bonga Spill Hits A/Ibom Shoreline, Environmentalists, Fishermen, Trade Tackles With Shell

you nigerians are really stupid,Shell is doing you over big time and you believe all the crap they give you,how are they going to disperse 40,000 barrels of oil? its impossible and the oil that has arrived already is only the tip of the iceberg.get real and grow some balls you dummies,shell are taking the piss

Do you guys even verify stories before collecting money to let people post on your site? Saraki already posted on his site that NOSDRA, DPR the agencies incharge have been directed to consult independent investigations so posting this artiucle to suggest this hungry wanna be ERA that just wants to collect brown envelope are the one that suggests the investigation is just poor jornalism.

I will expect Sahara Reporters to do their due deligence on stories like this before posting such false accussations on their site. I'm guessing anything to drive traffic right. Same committe release information about how they have directed independent consultants to do finger printing of the oil found in the forcado shoreline. This committe needs to be commended they have even seeked the assistance of United States Environmental Agency on this spill so with time i am sure Shell and every oil companies will be held to international Standards something we have lacked in Nigeria before now

Only God will save us from this corrupt bunch of leaders and some useless journalists.

Sahara Reporters here you come with another false cook up. The Senate Committe did not give shell a clean health bill, they commended them for making attempts to contain the site. BSenator Saraki has it on his website that they are working with US.Environmental protection Agency to make sure Shell ishell and every oil producing oil companies are held to international standards. You can visit his site yourself www.abubakarbukolasaraki.com

Fishing boats will dock, seafood prices will rise and the oil spill is now politicized. The government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the various regulators in the oil sector is yet to develop a culture of safety capable of preventing and responding to major oil spills. Media coverage of the incident may have been truncated by bribe but the ecological and economic impact of the Bonga spill is clear and inescapable: the oil spill is SHELL’s fault and they should pay for the harm they're causing.

Very soon like the thunders from the blues, it will hit Nigeria. And all those people who call themselves "superior" race to Nigerians (Europeans, Chinese, Vietnamese, even useless Indians) will pay dearly! Enough of this intimidation, even in our own country (If actually it was ours at the first instance). They manhandle us in their lands (Europe, Asia etc) and also come here to manhandle us?

O! God, let this judgement begin in earnest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Sahara Reporters' strategy is to become an online sensational tabloid and not a serious site for factual news, so be it. But you folks need to make no pretenses to journalism. Sahara Rumours could be a better title and we'd then be sure what we're getting from you.
Having said that, I'm generally impressed with your access to good evidence in some of your reporting and would urge you guys to apply the same standard for evidence before reporting across board. I'd hate to lose all of my faith in you.

Sahara reporters, I was amongst the first group of people to LIKE your site on facebook but over the past months, I have become increasingly disillusioned with the kind of reporting I see on your site.
I am close to this story and know as a matter of certainty that no Journalists were bribed by anyone. Perhaps you term a 120km bumpy helicopter ride into the deep ocean some form of bribe !
I see sensationalism in most of your reporting. Sometimes it hinges on downright deception with intent to inflame passions. Imagine using a Photo of the October 1 or other bomb blast in Abuja for the recent Christmas blasts. What do you guys intend to achieve?

Longtime before now the oil companies like others 'white' coy in Nigeria has always been. Cheating on us, steal our resources and bribe our govt; we know all these. When is this going to stoo, we are human being, one dat we ll react again to bring justice to d land.

If the journalists had been invited by GEJ, and given transport money, the story would have been splashed all over the national dailies. With a rider under the banner headline, telling us how angry the Senate in the USA, was over the offer of 50k bribe to our saintly reporters. But under Saraki, a chronic bribe taker and giver from Osun via Kwara state, all is quiet on the ocean floor where the oil leak occured. Some socalled experts had argued here just days ago that, the leak will not be felt in Akwa Ibom or any of the oil producing states in the south south. Beause as they put it, Bonga oil field is located millions if not trillion of miles away from our coastal areas. The same lawmakers who cannot pass the oil industry bill which was sent to them under Obj, now GEJ, want to lie their way through the oil leaks to our hearts. Senators who make noise over the rights of thier well protected fuel subsidy oil racketeers, now care less about the environment. What a shame!

If the journalists had been invited by GEJ, and given transport money, the story would have been splashed all over the national dailies. With a rider under the banner headline, telling us how angry the Senate in the USA, was over the offer of 50k bribe to our saintly reporters. But under Saraki, a chronic bribe taker and giver from Osun via Kwara state, all is quiet on the ocean floor where the oil leak occured. Some socalled experts had argued here just days ago that, the leak will not be felt in Akwa Ibom or any of the oil producing states in the south south. Beause as they put it, Bonga oil field is located millions if not trillion of miles away from our coastal shoreline. The same lawmakers who cannot pass the oil industry bill which was sent to them under Obj, now GEJ, want to lie their way through the oil leaks into our hearts. Senators who make noise over the rights of their well protected fuel subsidy racketeers, now care less about the environment. What a shame!