princemedico:
Good! This have been long overdue, each time I see that st. Louis it makes me angry knowing that it is the well known and only choice for consumable sugar. @ speedyboi, I have never seen the Nasco sugar, pls where do you buy from?

Okija_juju:


Well said...

Oya, go bring Garri, purewater and St. Louis sugar, make we take hold belle till evening!

Okija_juju: So instead of encouraging Nigerians to go into Sugarcane farming.. Instead of improving our Univeristies of Agriculture to enable them carry out plant research that would enable them create stronger strains of fruits that can survive in Nigeria, we are stopping the importation of refined sugar..

Whats the difference biko?! Its like you stopped the importation of Orange Juice, yet we import Oranges.. lol. How stupid!

midetinz:

LIES! A good idea for DANGOTE to grow more

thelastPope:

You have passed this level of someone who doesn't read the article before commenting. I am disappointed! Didn't read where he said the importation will be tied to local production? Haba my guy!

Okija_juju:

I did read it o!!

But the truth is simple.. BAN IT OUTRIGHTLY!!!!!!!!!


Reason.. Importing will always be more favorable and chaeper.

Okija_juju:

I did read it o!!

But the truth is simple.. BAN IT OUTRIGHTLY!!!!!!!!!


Reason.. Importing will always be more favorable and chaeper.

ypzilanti:

Haba. That one is military mentality. In democracy things are done small small. If you ban outright, you are just making money for custom officials at the borders. The unmet demand of 140 million people is too much and no amount of border policing will stop smuggling. Local capacity has to be guided slowly to meet up demand before a full ban. The policy is a good one...if guided well.

So why didnt they start making the plans first..

I can bet that no plans was put in place to boost local production first.. Make them ban am outright!! Make we start to use salt drink tea!!


All these half measures dey piss me off.. Afterall, we ban leather shoes when only aba dey make fake shoes wey no dey last!! So why cant we ban sugar outright

thelastPope:

Haba now! How can you just wake up in the morning and ban the staple need of every single Nigerian. Does that make any sense to you? You have to take it step by. Step now! Haba! You grow some, you ban some. You continue the circle till its all local! Haba, so if dem bring you in as a think tank person, na so you go fall hand? Smh!

You know our country... Its either you go hard or you dont!!

Shey no be customs go still dey for seaport to clear the container of sugar?!

So we didnt outrightly ban it, which means its not illegal to import sugar.. So we really just banned/balanced it on paper, meanwhile sugar still dey fall in..

If you want results, BAN IT OUTRIGHT!! What this does is it increases the bribe of CUSTOMS and NAFDAC. So its not as easy to import anymore.. Then you will see results..

They have banned Orange Juice importation o!! Stute Orange Juice (which is all i drink) is found of the shelves in stores and is imported from the UK, made with Brazillian oranges..

Who we dey decieve?!

Okija_juju: So instead of encouraging Nigerians to go into Sugarcane farming.. Instead of improving our Univeristies of Agriculture to enable them carry out plant research that would enable them create stronger strains of fruits that can survive in Nigeria, we are stopping the importation of refined sugar..

Whats the difference biko?! Its like you stopped the importation of Orange Juice, yet we import Oranges.. lol. How stupid!

Okija_juju: So instead of encouraging Nigerians to go into Sugarcane farming.. Instead of improving our Univeristies of Agriculture to enable them carry out plant research that would enable them create stronger strains of fruits that can survive in Nigeria, we are stopping the importation of refined sugar..

Whats the difference biko?! Its like you stopped the importation of Orange Juice, yet we import Oranges.. lol. How stupid!

fagin1982:


@ Okija Juju why are you and your likes always in a hurry to make quick negative assertions anytime the Federal Govt comes up with a good program..The ban on importation of sugar is simply to encourage local production ...For your information a 750k metric tons capacity sugar company has just been completed by Flour Mills of Nigeria ...The sugar company is titled Golden Sugar Comapny , they have over 40,000 hectares of land in Niger state and other parts of North already filled wth Sugar cane...Several other Sugar cane integrated farms re also encouraged with loans to facilitate these projects..Dangote sugar owns lots of hectares of sugar cane farms ...Multiple jobs will be provided by these schemes , Foriegn exchange reduced

Please and please Nairalanders if you don't have any meaningful contribution to make , quietly view and walk pass than showing off yourself ..You must not respond to every topic...A lot of us come here to learn...

Abeg drex go far jor!! If you no get respect for elder, respect Juju..

Who are the top sugar producers in Nigeria?!

All I said was, BAN THE IMPORTATION TOTALLY!! not this half assed measure.. As long as foreign sugar which is chaeper (wether package or raw) still crosses our boarders, then local production will continue to suffer.

Ban it outright, fund university researchs to invent genetically altered sugarcanes that are impervious to diseases, sweeter and grow fast, e.t.c.. Lets struggle for a while, but things will settle eventually. But this half and half will not work..

mosun_ade: some folks see nothing good in what the government does. So, all they see in this policy is that its a ploy to make Dangote richer. Come on. Be objective for once, saying good about a policy when you see it doesnt reduce your worth, so, use your brain and forget this ploy to make Dangote rich balderdash.

ogbeche77:
And also another reason for DANGOTE to smile to the bank

blink182: na now I know say you no get common sense for that your big head. Shey the sugar when dem go manufacture internally na from breeze, the technical know how na from breeze too. Olodo.

Okija_juju:


Abeg drex go far jor!! If you no get respect for elder, respect Juju..

Who are the top sugar producers in Nigeria?!

All I said was, BAN THE IMPORTATION TOTALLY!! not this half assed measure.. As long as foreign sugar which is chaeper (wether package or raw) still crosses our boarders, then local production will continue to suffer.

Ban it outright, fund university researchs to invent genetically altered sugarcanes that are impervious to diseases, sweeter and grow fast, e.t.c.. Lets struggle for a while, but things will settle eventually. But this half and half will not work..

fagin1982:


My dear u are just bereaved of latest happenings in the Industry..I advice you just google or source for information...Google Konja Integrated Farms in Niger State ..Stanbic , Zenith re funding several sugar farms of high breed..Several Sugar cane farms of such...This sugar cane project started with Yaradua Govt...its taking full shape now ...Funds have been made available to Institute of Tropical Agriculture ABU for research on higher improved varieties of Sugar cane .GM species have already been palnted and harvested ..Golden Sugar just did the first test run of the Sugar Plant , Dangote is already waxing stronger , Bachita BUA and several Sugar plants re gona benefit from it ...They spend heavily on foreign exchange ...Its a landmark project for Nigeria as a whole ...Over 1million NiGerians wld benefit from it ..Here you re criticizing....why not set up a farm and apply for loan ...
Well keep talk is free ...so go ahead

ypzilanti:

Abeg, who imports that St Louis sugar? The only damn sugar in the whole Nigeria. A country of 140 million people, where everybody takes sugar. Is it Dangote?

princemedico:
Good! This have been long overdue, each time I see that st. Louis it makes me angry knowing that it is the well known and only choice for consumable sugar. @ speedyboi, I have never seen the Nasco sugar, pls where do you buy from?

bolayei:

St Louis sugar have been around before anyone knew Dangote. The thing is nigerians monopolise things themselves because they dont like taking risk and competition and dont like starting small. I wonder how many nigerians know Dangote does not have a single monopoly on any product?

fagin1982:


My dear u are just bereaved of latest happenings in the Industry..I advice you just google or source for information...Google Konja Integrated Farms in Niger State ..Stanbic , Zenith re funding several sugar farms of high breed..Several Sugar cane farms of such...This sugar cane project started with Yaradua Govt...its taking full shape now ...Funds have been made available to Institute of Tropical Agriculture ABU for research on higher improved varieties of Sugar cane .GM species have already been palnted and harvested ..Golden Sugar just did the first test run of the Sugar Plant , Dangote is already waxing stronger , Bachita BUA and several Sugar plants re gona benefit from it ...They spend heavily on foreign exchange ...Its a landmark project for Nigeria as a whole ...Over 1million NiGerians wld benefit from it ..Here you re criticizing....why not set up a farm and apply for loan ...
Well keep talk is free ...so go ahead

apostle007: Ban on imports is not necessarily a great idea, because every economic policy has hidden costs that can render it counter-productive. They did the same with cement: the result...high prices. Ladies and Gentlemen, the price of sugar would soon hit the roof! Local manufacture of products at all costs is not the way forward. Importing raw materials is not a bad thing if local manufacture is unduly expensive.

Some talk about benefits like job creation. That is good. But at what costs to the economy. Here's the thing. Those companies affected by ban, as was the case with cement, could fold up; and that means less competition to keep prices low which means sugar prices could disproportionately go up. when you couple this with the job losses that will later come from lower demand for the finished goods that use sugar as input (because of astronomical costs of sugar), this policy could eventually increase unemployment. you see, an economic policy is a double edge sword, not a one-way street.

Okija_juju: So instead of encouraging Nigerians to go into Sugarcane farming.. Instead of improving our Univeristies of Agriculture to enable them carry out plant research that would enable them create stronger strains of fruits that can survive in Nigeria, we are stopping the importation of refined sugar..

Whats the difference biko?! Its like you stopped the importation of Orange Juice, yet we import Oranges.. lol. How stupid!

taharqa: I wish we had knowledgeable peeps like u on NL more often, it wont always feel like abandoning d forum cos of d many KIDS around. Plz post comments more often..... By d way, are u aware of d USA cop backd by d US EXIM bank that is investing billions of dollars in d entire Sugar value chain in parts of d north?

Kx: We have crude in abundance, the raw material for petroleum products-AGO,PMS,DPK etc.

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