Nigeria's largest steel plant will finally start production, four decades after it was built.

The Ajaokuta mill has cost the country more than $8bn, but has never produced any steel.

It is hoped that getting the facility off the ground will save Nigeria billions of dollars in steel imports.


Built on a 24,000 hectares (59,000 acres) site in 1979 with the coke oven and byproducts plant larger than all the refineries in Nigeria combined is reported to finally start production, four decades after.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVyWiYdKQA

Paperwhite:
This will be a commendable development of the APC government if Ajaokuta can not only roar back to life but recommended steel production.
This project have been a haven of monumental corruption all along.

FriendNG:
Flash: April 1985 Head of state Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the 110 Megawatt Thermal Power Plant & Road bride connecting Ajaokuta to the Eastern of Kogi State.

Ovamboland:


I thought they said he did not commission any project when he was head of state?

godfatherx:
If Tons of steel starts rolling out of that factory before 2019 elections, I will change my mind and vote for Buhari.

Hope this is not another Lai Mohammed project.

FriendNG:


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/nigeria-steel-factory-open-40-years-180616102446497.html

MartinCorridon:

Who manufactures these lies for international consumption...

yemmight:
Me I know Buhari really mean well for the nation if not for the likes of Saraki and co.

FriendNG:
Flash: April 1985 Head of state Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the 110 Megawatt Thermal Power Plant & Road bride connecting Ajaokuta to the Eastern of Kogi State.