Coming home!!!!!

[Hendrik Petoors]

Yup.... rehabiltating roads is quite an art. You have to turn a sows ear into a silk purse!!!!!! Just doing a condition survey to determine the status of an existing pavement is quite an art and one of my specialities. It is one of those things that come with years of experience. I RSA they need people like me........ but I will NOT ride Ben Schoeman every day to do that!!!!!!!

[Tumbleweed]

hennie, here's another reason it's worth your while coming home. and you can also use this nugget (geddit?) if anyone here on the hub tells you you're worthless, tell them you're worth your, ahem, weight in gold

 

 

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) _ In Nigeria's oil-rich south, foreign workers are known as "white gold" among the gangs who kidnap them for ransom.
"Ah, the whites are coming," chuckled one young gang member _ sipping beer in a ramshackle, roadside bar _ as a heavily guarded oil company convoy sped through traffic-choked Port Harcourt, sirens blaring. "It's like the vans for ice creams in your country."
Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of crude oil, known as "black gold." But the country is in the grip of a kidnapping epidemic, with more than 150 foreigners seized so far this year, including a woman and a child _ nearly the total for all of last year.
The attacks have contributed to a drop in production of about 25 percent, driving up oil prices worldwide with no end to the string of kidnappings in sight.
Ransoms are fueling the surge, gang members and oil industry officials say. They also claim a cut goes to the government officials who shuttle between the charm-bedecked, rifle-toting gunmen in the swamps and professional negotiators flown in from Paris or London.
"Absolutely not true," Rivers state spokesman Emmanuel Okah said earlier this week.
But a militant from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a group behind a number of high-profile kidnappings said all sides pocket a portion of the ransom.
"Practically everyone involved in hostage negotiations has had his hands soiled," the militant said by e-mail on condition of anonymity. "Officials merely up the demands of the abductors and keep the rest to themselves, most times unknown to the abductors."

[Hendrik Petoors]

hennie' date=' here's another reason it's worth your while coming home. and you can also use this nugget (geddit?) if anyone here on the hub tells you you're worthless, tell them you're worth your, ahem, weight in gold

 

 

LAGOS,(no problem.......here yet!!!!) Nigeria (AP) _ In Nigeria's oil-rich south, foreign workers are known as "white gold" among the gangs who kidnap them for ransom.
"Ah, the whites are coming," chuckled one young gang member _ sipping beer in a ramshackle, roadside bar _ as a heavily guarded oil company convoy sped through traffic-choked Port Harcourt, sirens blaring. "It's like the vans for ice creams in your country."
Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of crude oil, known as "black gold." But the country is in the grip of a kidnapping epidemic, with more than 150 foreigners seized so far this year, including a woman and a child _ nearly the total for all of last year.
The attacks have contributed to a drop in production of about 25 percent, driving up oil prices worldwide with no end to the string of kidnappings in sight.
Ransoms are fueling the surge, gang members and oil industry officials say. They also claim a cut goes to the government officials who shuttle between the charm-bedecked, rifle-toting gunmen in the swamps and professional negotiators flown in from Paris or London.
"Absolutely not true," Rivers state spokesman Emmanuel Okah said earlier this week.
But a militant from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a group behind a number of high-profile kidnappings said all sides pocket a portion of the ransom.
"Practically everyone involved in hostage negotiations has had his hands soiled," the militant said by e-mail on condition of anonymity. "Officials merely up the demands of the abductors and keep the rest to themselves, most times unknown to the abductors."

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Thanx Roller...... but I am worth my weight in Carbon Fibre and Titanium!!!!!!! No problem in Lagos yet. The area indicated in the report is in the Niger Delta that produces oil. This is about 450km form Lagos. In Nigeria it might as well be 4500lm's!!!!!!!