The moribund Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Mill is to begin production next year to enhance Nigeria's lost economic value in steel development. Minister of Mines and Steel, Arc. Musa Muhammed Sada who gave the assurance in Abuja during an interactive session with journalists yesterday (Wednesday, 19th Oct.) said the resuscitation of the mill for production of iron and steel represented a bold move by the Federal Governnent to increase the Nation's GDP by improving the nation's mining industry.
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Can dead bone rise again? I just dey ask cos no be today!

GEJ is doing very well indeed. Resurrecting our dead steel mills, cotton plants, railways, education, power supply etc.
Nice.

Beaf:

GEJ is doing very well indeed. Resurrecting our dead steel mills, cotton plants, railways, education, power supply etc.
Nice.

Born Lair

blacksta:

Born Lair

You sound like Aregbesola who goes around slapping people like an animal. Like leader, like follower.

Beaf:

You sound like Aregbesola who goes around slapping people like an animal. Like leader, like follower.

Rather than make conjecture statement -Please learn to back up your statement with picture evidence or similar .

blacksta:

Rather than make conjecture statement -Please learn to back up your statement with picture evidence or similar .

Pictorial evidence of Aregbesola slapping people? You're funny o!
You can personally get that evidence by holding a placard outside Aregbe's house. See if he won't daze you with some blinding slaps that will join your ear to your nose.

Olodo. Like leader, like follower.

@topic
Welldone GEJ! The Fresh Air is already causing jealousy among the losers, so they come only to abuse.

Beaf:

GEJ is doing very well indeed. Resurrecting our dead steel mills, cotton plants, railways, education, power supply etc.
Nice.

in dream?

Let us wait until next year before knowing if this is true.

Everybody knows that this is a big lie, the place is so desolate, it is almost unbelievable.

ASCOL! ASCOL!!
I await the leader that will break this jinx.

Hmnn. Can this dream come true?

This is impossible. How the steel mill wan take start? The facility never took off and when obj brought his ''lets privatize our heritage'' madness, the fate of the project was doomed.

I know there have been more than 2 or 3 investors but i am very sure of the antics of the indian homeboys whose business plan was to strip everything of value and export for sale to ready buyers. I heard from a friend whose brother in law was a soviet trained engineer and staff of the complex that those guys were stripping bricks from walls because everything in that place was of the highest quality.

Abeg does anyone have any positive stories to tell

You sound like Aregbesola who goes around slapping people like an animal. Like leader, like follower

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Like i heard,OBJ brought the last company there through his son,and the company did a wonderful job of selling off all that is sell-able.How on earth can such a place now suddenly start work next year.

Dis BEAF na nuisance ooooo, see aw u r carried away by mere propanganda,one wud b forced 2 think u lack common sense, any sane being who has seen dt steel mill up close wil know govt is in dreamland, mmmsheeww **Gullible civilian**

next year
pigs will fly

pie will drop from the sky

Lagos and Abuja will be paved with gold

emphasis on the will

next  year
pigs will fly

pie will drop from the sky

Lagos and Abuja will be paved with gold

emphasis on the will be,

More promises. Thank God you cannot overdose on promises. Many Nigerians would have been dead by now.

I cant believe olagamalin is saying the things he is saying here about BEAF . Beaf is the reality that Nigeria finds itself, the fani kayode of GEJ administration (who said OBJ can never be wrong)

We are still waiting for the 36 airports in 36 states Odechukwu retardeen promised us oooo

In my dream, i dreamt that the steel industry came alive. . . .when i woke from the dream into the dream, it was an illusion. . .
When i woke up into reality, it was non existent!

This is good news to those who know whats really up in ASCL. The mills and thermal power plant are fine n jst need a little boost. What the indian brothers striped were mainly spares in store. The plant can easily be resuscitated if the FG commits to it. I jst hope this is not one of em talk shows

let them start first

U sef don answer urself

This is good news to those who know whats really up in ASCL. The mills and thermal power plant are fine n jst need a little boost. What the indian brothers striped were mainly spares in store. The plant can easily be resuscitated if the FG commits to it. I jst hope this is not one of em talk shows

we hope so!

Hmmmmm this sounds familiar!

It should now be clear who is advising GEJ how to make false promises.

could be looting opportunity. In the same manner Obasanjo looted $16billion he promised for power projects.

[size=18pt]11th July 1992 - The New York Times
Babangida Promises that Nigeria's Ajaokuta Steel Plant Is To Begin Pouring By End of Month[/size]

AJAOKUTA, Nigeria, July 9— With its sprawling network of pipes and cylinders and immense exhaust towers, the 60,000-acre Ajaokuta steel complex, the biggest industrial project in sub-Saharan Africa, poses a striking contrast to the villages of straw-roofed huts that surround it.

Officials hope that once the plant begins pouring metal as scheduled this month, this remote town in the heart of southern Nigeria will stand as a symbol of this developing country's dream of greatness and a monument to engineering tenacity.

But Ajaokuta has also become a target of increasing cynicism among Nigerians who have come to regard the project, after 12 years of delays and cost overruns, as a seemingly endless economic drain.

"If there is such a thing as a white elephant, this is surely one of its more awesome specimens," said Nosa Igiebor, editor of Tell magazine, an independent weekly that has published several articles highly critical of the project. 'Impressive Achievement'

Indeed, although initially planned for completion in about six years at a cost of $1.4 billion, the Ajaokuta project has already cost more than $4 billion, and Western diplomats and donors say it may need hundreds of millions more before it becomes fully operational.

Ajaokuta, some Nigerian analysts and Western diplomats say, is a relic from another era, when many third-world nations, aspiring to catch up with industrialized societies in the West, built vast prestige projects that often proved to be financial flops.

"Even to have built such a project is an impressive achievement, and the Nigerians should be lauded for that," a Western diplomat said. "But in the end, the real issue is whether it will ever prove commercially viable, and for now, that seems unlikely."




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these unending promise from different leaders about ajaokuta is infuriating honestly.
if he want to do it let him start and not by just talking jare

promise defaulting party promises again

New appointments+new official cars+estacodes+budgets+office supplies+, = 1^2.

Hahaha

They invited Russians to Manage it, it still failed, After all, who want to buy steele from Nigeria, is is America, or U.k, America has the largest production of steele in the world they dot need to Buy, from any body else, so na who Nigerian want sell am to

That is the reason it has always been a failure as for GEJ to resurrect it, its gonna still fail

Revolva:

Hahaha

They invited Russians to Manage it, it still failed, After all, who want to buy steele from Nigeria, is is America, or U.k, America has the largest production of steele in the world they dot need to Buy, from any body else, so na who Nigerian want sell am to

That is the reason it has always been a failure as for GEJ to resurrect it, its gonna still fail

Does it occur to you that industrialisation and steel availability goes hand in hand. Before you export what you have, you must have met your local needs.

Though the minister's statement must be taken with a pinch of salt.

well industralization, matters , but whos gonna buy the steele, when they export it is the main isssue that the reason it has never been productive over the years


Ok