dfrost:
Please and please, they should prioritise employment for locals first, before others.

I understand that expertise matters albeit, the locals can also be trained.

Inclusion really matters.

@naptu2, thanks for bringing this news to the fore. Kudos chief.

Hope you rested and did your exercises this morning?

siant:
only God knows how some people think.

No, they didn't do environmental impact assessment, na only you know about it.

Nonsense

JASONjnr:
E sure me say, God took his time to bless Nigeria abundantly.... But he forgot to bring sane humans to inhabited the land.... Thereby causing blacks to migrate from different regions to settle here......

dominique:
By the time the factory starts operations, battery we were buying for ₦200 will skyrocket to ₦500. Let's just keep importing biko

Gerrard59:


The Chinese would gladly share the technology IF you ask. If you don't ask, they won't share it. That is how they do. Ask, and it shall be given unto you. You don't ask? No technology.


@Pansophist: Here we have it; investments, good vibes, pork and Mandarin. Wouldn't you rather do business with the Chinese?

Long live the CCP

In China we trust!

dominique:
By the time the factory starts operations, battery we were buying for ₦200 will skyrocket to ₦500. Let's just keep importing biko

Jbleenk:
Way to go. We are on the right track on this. Time to force the west to do our bidding as well

. If you can’t come here to build industries instead of pillaging our resources and exporting them to your countries then forget it we won’t allow you access to what you are so much in need of period.

Ahmed0336:

That's just it.
The day Africa wakes up from her slumber, that's the day the world will give us the respect we deserve.

PepeXKermit:


your assertion is very folly to say the least. tell me which country is more politically and economically unstable and uncertain as Nigeria. even you, if you are a small business owner of just one shop with 10sqm of space, imagine how much you spend in generating your won elecricity. you are then asking a company who needs to maximize their profit, to come and invest/open a factory in Nigeria that will not only bring htem untold losses but with lots of uncertainty about its climate. you want them to come and invest so that your youths can be employed? which foolish business man will take such an offer? did you think these billionaire were rich out of the blues? you guys are making me laugh honestly. any country that cannot fix their political climate, will never have a thriving economy. check anywhere in the worold and give me a contradicitng opinion of my assertion.

12345baba:
Court wan impeach am he come dey commission project

Jbleenk:
Way to go. We are on the right track on this. Time to force the west to do our bidding as well

. If you can’t come here to build industries instead of pillaging our resources and exporting them to your countries then forget it we won’t allow you access to what you are so much in need of period.

dominique:
By the time the factory starts operations, battery we were buying for ₦200 will skyrocket to ₦500. Let's just keep importing biko

PepeXKermit:


your assertion is very folly to say the least. tell me which country is more politically and economically unstable and uncertain as Nigeria. even you, if you are a small business owner of just one shop with 10sqm of space, imagine how much you spend in generating your won elecricity. you are then asking a company who needs to maximize their profit, to come and invest/open a factory in Nigeria that will not only bring htem untold losses but with lots of uncertainty about its climate. you want them to come and invest so that your youths can be employed? which foolish business man will take such an offer? did you think these billionaire were rich out of the blues? you guys are making me laugh honestly. any country that cannot fix their political climate, will never have a thriving economy. check anywhere in the world and give me a contradicitng opinion of my assertion.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Very good move. I must congratulate the FG. You can't talk about electric vehicle without lithium. While the American clown called Elon Musk (Tesla) wanted licence to mine...FG rejected his request.

Just like the French government who were mining uranium in Niger Republic... the US came through Tesla to mine our lithium. When i tell people that the West don't want Africa to develop, not ready to lift us out of poverty, will never transfer important technology to us but will go ahead to establish over 1000 military base in African territory. Probably where they train & supply terrorist with advanced weaponry to destablize Africa.


Thanks to the Chinese, these guys are bringing real investment to Africa. They will never give you conditions that are contrary to your culture & value. Like you must accept gay, LGBTV rights before we give you loan.

BurntDodo:


What's way to go about this? It's still the same imperialism that we've been practicing since post-colonial times. You blacks sef. The Chinese board of directors and ceo who are on Forbes list because of the batteries will now be paying the Nigerian workers peanuts and you say you're enjoying.

The "way to go" is when we blacks, invest in our Nigerian engineers to build their own battery plant so that we can be the ones on Forbes list.

Inayachem:

You are asking which foolish bussiness man will invest in Nigeria, I don't know if you have memory. MTN, multichoice, Airtel, GLO, Huawei, dangote, bua, honey well, flourmills, Julius Berger,ccecc etc are all doing well just to mention a few.so you think you know more than the Chinese company. Nigeria is one of the most political stable county in Africa in the past 24yrs.

naptu2:
Dele Alake @AlakeDele



https://twitter.com/AlakeDele/status/1712582820797821338

naptu2:
Dele Alake @AlakeDele



https://twitter.com/AlakeDele/status/1712582820797821338

LZAA:

The West have never imposed anything on Africa rather it's the greedy African rulers who assent to anything that made it so
Also like someone said this is basically choosing the lesser of two evils because if you really think the Chinese are better....😄😄

blacksam01:
If the FG does not take over its management and revenue, thrn let the Niger Delta region protest...

all mineral resource of the state Nigeria shld b managed ,and revenue allocated to the FG..

if other mineral exploration are exempted, then the Nigeri delta should protest

naptu2:
There is a lesson in this thread, but if you search through Twitter and check the thread, you'll notice that many people have not learnt the lesson.


First Lithium Processing Plant In Nigeria Under Construction In Kaduna.
https://www.nairaland.com/7523789/first-lithium-processing-plant-nigeria


This is the lesson:

There are many sectors in Nigeria that are in the exclusive list in the constitution. This means that they are the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government. For a long time many people assumed that this means that state governments cannot get involved in these sectors, but that is not true.

Bola Tinubu constantly demonstrated this when he was governor. There are many things that people assumed were only reserved for the Federal Government, but his government got involved in those things. Power generation, port construction, airport construction, refinery, etc.

You see, all the state government needs to do is to bring in a private/foreign company to invest in the sector and then they need to get a license from the Federal Government. The Federal Government wants to make money and they want development, so they will go along with the project (although in some rare cases they might sabotage the project, just like the AES Barge power project in Lagos).


Some people are asking why the oil in Rivers is for Nigeria while the lithium in Kaduna is for Kaduna. Well, read this article, the chairman of the Kaduna Internal Revenue Service stated clearly that mining is on the exclusive list and the only way that Kaduna State can take part in mining lithium is to set up a mining company and get a license from the Federal Government. Has the Rivers State Government set up an oil company and applied to get mining licenses from the Federal Government?

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/kaduna-govt-set-to-explore-revenue-potential-of-solid-minerals/


This issue keeps coming up every time and the answer is always the same. People asked the same question when it was announced that a gold refinery was being established in Osun and the answer then was exactly the same.

nairalanda1:


And if we keep importing, we would keep on sending our forex out of the country.

It's time we attracted forex into the country, and created employment into the bargain. We can't keep on selling raw materials to others who would use them to make products that earn them far more than the raw materials we sell.

Rich countries are exporters of manufactured goods and services.

Yes, batteries may be expensive as a result, but then again, workers have to be paid well. Better it is Nigerian workers being paid well regardless of tribe.

dominique:


I understand the importance of local production but one strange thing about Nigeria is that locally produced items are more expensive than imported ones. Look at rice, cement, sugar etc. If we can't produce that can beat the price of imported ones, we should keep importing abeg