wallace83:






Buhari traveled so what you expect him to play international politics from Aso rock......abi Una think say nah Jonah em be...........this is what I'm saying if you don't have something reasonable to say you can as well shut up...or is it the first time Nigerians are experiencing fuel scarcity?

Ecoterrorist:
Go away from my mention KID. You dont even know the meaning of change

wallace83:








Really "KID"... Have a nice day madam go look for BBC food channel watch and stop letting ur ass talk instead of you mouth

Ecoterrorist:
go away from my mention little kid who cant even measure up to my daughter

rapistbuhari:
Imagine a sane mod closing down a thread with a valid source for this without a contex and source.

Back to the topic: our president is now A NIGERIAN IN DIASPORA.

Seems we should change nursery school song Fly away Peter..Fly away Paul!! to Fly away mallam, fly away mallam

A country that continues to have stinking garbage filled open sewers in its biggest city (Lagos) ..

A country where the majority of its citizens go to bed to sleep in the heat and in the dark ...

A country that is run on cheap noisy generating sets...

A country that cannot cap its gas flarings in the Niger-Delta , or stop barrels and barrels of crude oil seeping and leaking into its environment in both land and sea ..,,

Such a country just has no business attending a Nuclear Summit of any sort!!

Buhari na Agbaya!!

He is not remotely aware of how shameful his presence at such an event will be.

A small discreet delegation led by the Minister of Environment , purely as observers would have sufficed !!

Ecoplexus:
I see no need for this trip, to be honest. Nigeria has neither nuclear weapons nor nuclear reactors, the fund used for this trip should have been channelled into a more worthwhile venture like importing sufficient PMS to stop the biting effect of fuel scarcity.

GiantParrot:


You're indeed funny. I'm certainly not Igbo, a PDP supporter or hungry. That you choose to resort to insults says a lot about you already. You can believe all that if it pleases you though.

Still I stand by my statement that a nuclear summit shouldn't be a priority right now. Considering the pressure on our FOREX, the widespread economic downturn, the fuel crisis, the power crisis, and security crisis in the country.

I also refuse to believe that anyone would naturally decide to become an APC zombie. Except he is paid in cash or in kind for being one.

aresa:
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#PDPhouseOfHungerIpoDZombie. Not interested in BINGO noise..

chinchum:
Why the wailing zombies will continue to do what they know how to do best, Mr. President will forge ahead and get the job done.

two weeks ago, the director general of IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA was in aso rock, nigeria.

Joarams:


Unfortunately, this Forum is on the loose. Hardly do comments on any thread make sense.

I believe the real problem is with the people and not the leaders. I read someone say, we don't know who we are or what we want. I agree! There's a lot of shallow analysis in the polity. People are impatient, quick to flow with emotional lines than understand the real stuff.

Since when did we not know that a process of rebuilding comes with pain and hardships worsened by falling commodity prices? Who doesn't know that the darkest period is before dawn? Who is ignorant that it's easier to destroy, to loot, to share bounties, to give fish than it is to build, to restore, to accumulate and to teach how to fish? We were warned that 2016 will be a harder year for all oil exporting countries (PMB or GEJ)...check out Venezuela and the inflation rate going on there now (it's over 100%). One of the reasons is because their fuel was the most-subsidized for citizens...perhaps to politically appease them (You can't eat your cake and have it!).

There are a lot of problems with Nigeria and with the way we chose our leaders and there are many more critics for those sets of problems. But, who will deal with the problem of the people? Who will criticise the way we train followers, the way we educate the people, the way we build citizens of a noble country?

Born2Breed:
MORBID AVIPHILIA

jpphilips:


His visit is not a big deal, first IAEA will be notified, second step, they will come to develop modalities for inspection and licence, next, your president will go and seek for a licence (guess that is what buhari went for or in part of the licence process), then the IAEA inspection proper, it is the IAEA's recommendation that will determine whether Nigeria will be granted such licence.

Now this is the reality on ground.

These guys are not s!lly, after wasting resources and paying for all that need to be paid for, IAEA will NEVER put in a good word for us, Just like, India, Pakistan, Iran etc. These countries went ahead in defiance but the consequence wasn't so palatable.

India; India insisted it needed it for healthcare and electricity despite having a very strong case in the IAEA because they have a huge population and they lack the so called Secondary options for electricity generation. Another thing that worked for India is the advantage of having naturally occurring radioactive materials which the west was depending on, its like asking Nigeria to sell you oil but Nigeria will not be allowed to utilize it. India was not a signatory to the NPT hence not even the west has a legal right to ask India not to develop nuclear capability under international laws.

Few decades after that move, India built the 4th best military in the world, the question is; why will India want to amass such military capability just to have access to Nuclear energy? The answer is simple, they understand that the move made them a bulls eye in the comity of nations hence the improvement in military capability to be able to defend themselves, After the 1998 tests, India was sanctioned so badly that they nearly became a pariah state, let me ask, who designs a foreign policy that attracts war to herself? be the Judge!!

Pakistan claimed that since India was allowed to have, India has become a threat to them, exploiting the relationship between president clinton and Al Musharraf at the time, the west secretly helped Pakistan to develop nuclear capability to keep India in check!!

Iran; the case of Iran is still very fresh and the sanctions that ensued.

Nigeria is a signatory to the NPT, Pelindaba treaty and CTBT all these will work against us at the licence acquisition stage, they may drag us into a long international legal battle for generations to come.

The issue of security will work against us, Nigeria has not been able to contain Boko haram effectively hence they may misinterpret it as handing nuclear materials to terrorists.

Nuclear technology, containment, source of nuclear materials and responsive agencies are practically non existent in Nigeria hence they will understand how daunting a challenge it poses.

On the flip side, I think Buhari's sincerity of purpose is working against us this time a polemic arguement from a lettered Fashola and Dr chidi Anukam will be overwhelmingly convincing for a president that wants the best for his country, however, what that board room lacks is a foreign affairs minister who knows his onions, who will throw in a counter polemic arguement just like a Fashola will do from the international point of view.

Mr President may just be wasting his time.

chinchum:
As to IAEA not putting a good word for us because of what occured in India, pakistan and iran. I feel you have to put in to consideration the tensions and fiesty political relationships india had with some of its countries it shared borders with, , bangladesh, pakistan, e.t.c e.g the kasmir conflict(india pakistani war) that led to loss of lives . Iran and iraq conflicts e.t.c in such cases, possession of nuclear instrument by one is a threat on the other. Nigeria's case is relatively different.

jpphilips:


I think I explained in details india's high and low grounds and I equally did same for Nigeria, what part of that post confused you?
IAEA will NEVER put in a good word for us and I gave clear reasons for that statement.

chinchum:
ok, i only skimmed through earlier. i was somewhat engaged. The NPT is not against using nuclear energy for electricity purposes, and i dont think there can be trust issues like we had in iran for reasons i highlighted in my earlier post. The NPT is a treaty against development of nuclear weapons, which is different from using nuclear energy for electric power production. When we get to that bridge we will cross it.

jpphilips:



The NPT is for proliferation of "Nuclear materials" with emphasis on Nuclear weapons!! , what you need nuclear materials for matter less to the regulators who really do not want you to have access to those materials.
you are right, the emphasis is on nuclear weapons however the technology and nuclear materials clause will work against us.

A government is not a gambling store where you throw in guess works because the lives and welfare of over 170m people depend on those policies, it is not a matter of when we get to the bridge, we should have a panoramic understanding of what we are getting ourselves in and its cost implication, do you have any idea how much a nuclear plant cost? operating license any guess?
Like I said, buhari is wasting his time

The Federal Government is working towards generating 4,000 megawatts of electricity from nuclear energy.

The plan is to start a programme in the coming years that will give the country 1,000MW in the first instance, which will be increased to 4,000MW thereafter.

According to a statement on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, this was disclosed during a meeting that President Muhammadu Buhari had with the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Yukiya Amano, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Shehu said the ministers who spoke at the meeting gave updates on the country’s presentation for the utilisation of nuclear energy.

The SSA said in the statement, “The ministers of Power, Solid Minerals, Health, Science and Technology, who briefed the meeting, said preparatory steps taken so far included the training of doctors and other medical specialists to prepare for unforeseen circumstances, the establishment of specialist medical centres and the procurement of necessary equipment aimed at protecting the health of the citizens.

“Nigeria, said the ministers, is aspiring to start a programme in the coming years that will give this country 1,000MW of electricity in the first instance, to be increased to 4,000MW thereafter.”

He quoted the President as welcoming the support of the IAEA for Nigeria’s aspiration to generate electricity from nuclear energy.

Buhari said he was happy that the organisation was developing a programme from which Nigeria would benefit.

He urged the IAEA to do more to support Nigeria in view of the long years of its association and support for the nuclear regulatory agency.

Amano said he was pleased to see that Nigeria was taking the correct steps towards a safe usage of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. http://www.punchng.com/fg-targets-4000mw-from-nuclear-energy/

rapistbuhari:
Imagine a sane mod closing down a thread with a valid source for this without a contex and source.

Back to the topic: our president is now A NIGERIAN IN DIASPORA.

Seems we should change nursery school song Fly away Peter..Fly away Paul!! to Fly away mallam, fly away mallam

A country that continues to have stinking garbage filled open sewers in its biggest city (Lagos) ..

A country where the majority of its citizens go to bed to sleep in the heat and in the dark ...

A country that is run on cheap noisy generating sets...

A country that cannot cap its gas flarings in the Niger-Delta , or stop barrels and barrels of crude oil seeping and leaking into its environment in both land and sea ..,,

Such a country just has no business attending a Nuclear Summit of any sort!!

Buhari na Agbaya!!

He is not remotely aware of how shameful his presence at such an event will be.

A small discreet delegation led by the Minister of Environment , purely as observers would have sufficed !!