obailala:

Private mining companies are mining in Gombe, private companies are mining in Kogi, the FG is not known to mine any solid mineral anywhere. Is there anything (human or spirit) stopping anyone from mining coal in Enugu?... Who is marginalising who?

#MentalSlavery

FG will give you the licence before you can start mining. If they don't, you can't mine. They have turned down several applications submitted for mining
Reason with your brains.

samuelchimmy:
and why is that. I thought projects are supposed to be executed tactically to serve the populace from all geo-political zones.... Don't tell me they are coming to it, you are not their spokes person.... I mean you should know how important enugu is geopolitically it should take alot of high level directives To ignore it...

Assuming we already had numerous functional rail lines in different locations around the country, but yet to have any at Enugu, then your point would have been rational. But that is clearly not the case.

You say Enugu is an important city and there's no doubt about that. But Lagos is also an important city, being the former FCT and the commercial capital of Nigeria, the economy of Lagos alone beats the economy of several geopolitical zones in Nigeria put together. If there's a scale of preference, I know it makes more sense to power Lagos with a functional standard rail before anywhere else in Nigeria. Similarly, Abuja is also a large city and the FCT of Nigeria. Going by simple logic, you dont expect Enugu to have a functional rail before Abuja or Lagos. The 3rd rail is the Warri to Ajaokuta line which was built specifically for the steel industries as an important prerequisite for Ajaokuta steel company to be fired up.

And by the way, I dont need to be anyone's spokesperson to know this, I'm just an ordinary Nigerian whose mind hasnt been messed up with irrational theories.

Edge1:


FG will give you the licence before you can start mining. If they don't, you can't mine. They have turned down several applications submitted for mining
Reason with your brains.

Since you're reasoning with ur brain, can you kindly provide any examples please?... Provide any examples (true or even fake) of companies or individuals who wanted to go into commercial coal mining in Enugu and were denied license. We cant keep living on unverifiable concocted propaganda alone.

obailala:

Assuming we already had numerous functional rail lines in different locations around the country, but yet to have any at Enugu, then your point would have been rational. But that is clearly not the case.

You say Enugu is an important city and there's no doubt about that. But Lagos is also an important city, being the former FCT and the commercial capital of Nigeria, the economy of Lagos alone beats the economy of several geopolitical zones in Nigeria put together. If there's a scale of preference, I know it makes more sense to power Lagos with a functional standard rail before anywhere else in Nigeria. Similarly, Abuja is also a large city and the FCT of Nigeria. Going by simple logic, you dont expect Enugu to have a functional rail before Abuja or Lagos. The 3rd rail is the Warri to Ajaokuta line which was built specifically for the steel industries as an important prerequisite for Ajaokuta steel company to be fired up.

And by the way, I dont need to be anyone's spokesperson to know this, I'm just an ordinary Nigerian whose mind hasnt been messed up with irrational theories.

forget irrational theories... Afterall all these misgivings are all part of the corruption we are talking about..... I rest my case
Peace!

samuelchimmy:
forget irrational theories... Afterall all these misgivings are all part of the corruption we are talking about..... I rest my case
Peace!

Yeah but I hope you get my point though?... The reason things dont work in Nigeria is because we've got bad bad leaders from top till bottom and even in the coming years and decades, there's still no hope of having truly competent people smell positions of power due to the kind of crude politics we practice in this side of the world. This leadership disaster affects every zone across the length and breadth of Nigeria; it isn't affecting the SE zone alone and it isnt a conspiracy by anyone to deliberately punish any particular zone as is very often peddled.

AreaFada2:
Port Harcourt came into existence to allow shipping coal from Enugu to UK.

Over 100 years ago. In 2018 we cannot work out how to get coal reasonably cheaply from Kogi to Ghana.

And we go dey lament how dem oyinbo cheat us.

Truly, the black race has a problem, no point to argue this.

This cannot occur in Asian countries, worse still, Ghana had to go as far as Australia to import coal. Common coal fa! Is that there is no other African nation that supply coal to Ghana instead of Australia? Can Vietnam import palm oil from Nigeria instead of Indonesia? Can Indonesia find it difficult to export the red oil to Vietnam?

It sucks to be a negro.

vioment:
Problem can be traced back to knowledge. We do not have an actual educated populace. Not because naijans are daft or don't l;ike education but the quality has deteriorated so bad, we don't build any part of ship making but we are one of the highest importers and exporters in the world. All of these are caused by FG continuously owing teachers/lecturers; school environment not being conducive to inspire students; cult activities creating insecurity; and incompetent lecturers.

killing the educational sector in Nigeria is the worst sun committed against Nigerians

Gerrard59:


Truly, the black race has a problem, no point to argue this.

This cannot occur in Asian countries, worse still, Ghana had to go as far as Australia to import coal. Common coal fa! Is that there is no other African nation that supply coal to Ghana instead of Australia? Can Vietnam import palm oil from Nigeria instead of Indonesia? Can Indonesia find it difficult to export the red oil to Vietnam?

It sucks to be a negro.

I tell you

it really sucks to be Negro


so many of our kind cannot use their brains

Ugosample:



killing the educational sector in Nigeria is the worst sun committed against Nigerians

Fact.