₦airaland Forum

asha80:
http://www.today.ng/news/abia-house-of-assembly-approves-gov-ikpeazus-request-to-borrow-n30billion/

And the beat goes on

The Nigerian Exports Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) have sealed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to increase the level of trade between Nigeria and the United Kingdom to about N4.5 trillion by 2020.

The pact, according to NEPC, would see both countries coming up with deliberate strategies to boost the level of non-oil exports owing to the decline in oil revenue as well as boosting the volume of bilateral trade from the £8 billion (N2.4 trillion) as of the end of 2014 to £15 billion (N4.57 trillion) by 2020. The Executive Secretary of NEPC, Olusegun Awolowo, signed the MoU on behalf of the council, while the President of NBCC, Mr. Dapo Adelegan, signed on behalf of the chamber.

Awolowo said the agency has been at the forefront for diversifying the Nigerian economy, noting that this had been further reinforced by the recent decline in the price of oil in the global market. While admitting that the drop in the price of oil has led to reductions in government revenue with pronounced negative effects on different sectors of the economy, he said the NEPC has identified 13 National Strategic Export Products to replace oil. He said the potentials of the products, which cut across key sectors of the economy would be maximised through investments, capacity development, innovation and formidable partnerships.

The need to promote the expiration of these products, according to him, was what inspired the pact between the NEPC and the Chamber.

The 13 products include palm oil, cocoa, cashew, sugar, rice, iron ore, metals, aluminium and auto parts.

Others are petroleum products, fertilizer/urea, petrochemicals and methanol.

Decryptor:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2520676_cymera20150615205220_jpegb472c4ae97dbe2334f20f047ee5b649e

That was a cut-out from Vanguard just last month! Will you call Vanguard Newspapers liars too?

Also read http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/23-states-owing-workers-says-labour/

Decibel:
Only but in Imo state led by an Almajiri Governor that such can happen. I trust Akpokuedike 1 of Aguleri, he can nurse such silly idea of bastardizing a well-reverend Igbo culture. Tufiakwa, alu eme!

asha80:
good...emeka offor and interstate should go and sit down since sambo is no longer there..to think they even trying to sabotage recent deal geometric signed with afrigem...i henceforth apologise for the earlier notion I had about controversy....donguuti can you please create a thread out of this?.abagoro I see you can you create a thread out of this?

asha80:
when I wrote that that should not be the case now I meant that since the political party at the center is the same with the one in the state the excuse of federal politics not allowing him to do his duties wil no longer be an excuse

bros856:
Jonathan did so much for Ijaw people but I think a few Ijaw people swallowed his effort and everything? It's time we hold them responsible because the next moment they will bring out our money and encourage our youth to go and fight for their benefits and they will stand out as group leaders to negotiate only for their benefits. Instead of asking for development of the oil communities during meetings with companies, they will settle for hughe contracts and the youths will still become their slaves working for them to pay them peaknuts waiting for another fight when it seems their contract is about to end. YOUTHS OF IJAW PLEASE WISE UP!!! This multinational companies present pays off more than a few people collecting contract. just check it out. STOP AND THINK.

4stylz:
And who will vote him? Or its by crook? .. I rather vote ekweremado as president than this idiot called rochas

Rochas (West will not vote for you)
Rochas (north will try a little )

You are only liked in imo and there vote nor go reach anything ** Rochas is the wrongest person cos he will never be president * nor be hate talk na fact.. I want igbo to be president but not Rochas

asha80:
it might be but it was still omitted alongside asaba airport in that tabulation

asha80:
owerri airport was omitted in the tabulated statistics of passenger travels

Drhenrysaint:
MUST READ:

I don't know what some people gain from posting OLD pics of owerri. I even saw I a picture of 2010 b4 my girlfriend left 4 lagos which d poster captioned RECENT PICTURE OF OWEERI. Its so painful d dt d poster him z any igbo man maybe from another state. Most of d pictures if u manage to revisit those places now u will be overwhelmed with cleanness.

Note: some part of owerri is dirty likewise other states in dz very countrty. My recent observation show dt d only dirty place in owerri now is Douglas Road.
Even the richest state nigeria be it lagos or akwa ibom got dt dirty zone won't lyk to pass again.

Abagworo:
Douglas road. Been long I dared enter the ever gridlocked and dirty road. Government needs to rise up to the occassion and remove Amawusa and the 2 Owerri markets from there. I wonder how people survive in this nasty area.

B2mario:
Don't hide the truth, he was rejected just because he's in APC.

You can ask Berem.

IAMTHEHERO:
Basket Anus!! Shut up!!Just tell me one past president or governor that did not steal.

eazydon:
My brother Imo don spoil. I'm from Abia, live in Owerri, Imo State. Used to be proud of the state but recently things are getting ugly down here.

Now Abia is picking momentum courtesy our new Governor who happens to be from my town.

SO GO TO ABIA. You will enjoy it

tranxo:
How can you say 2008 TILL DATE when you omitted records AFTER AIIA was reopened? No brain. Smh.

abagoro:
That is why I was one of those that fought hard for Buhari's emergence. Nigeria has always had good policies on paper but corruption and impunity destroys implementation. Take for example the East-West road Wike has reached agreement with FG to rehabilitate. During Jonathan, Amaechi was attacked and called a traitor for doing same and denied the rights to do same.

donguutti:
Is there any reason,Gas pipelines from the south south Cannot be laid to the Eastern Economic Hubs.
Laying a Gas pipeline from delta or rivers through River niger, would lay a Foundation for new cities
along the Coast,Onitsha,asaba etc.Laying a second One from Rivers or Akwa ibom through abia,
branching to Enugu and Ebonyi would create abundant investment opportunities.

The industrial hubs of Lagos and Ogun are dependent on The West African gas pipeline.The gas
being both an energy source and raw material.Dangote is planning pipelines from Bonny to Lagos,
why can't we do better,Instead of the constant bickering and Finger pointing.

Cjrane2:
Please don't mind the enemy within- abagworo.

The FG in its weird wisdom grants Kaduna in the middle of a desert a free trade zone but not Calabar on the coast of the Atlantic ocean? One thing i have seen in Nigeria is that in spite of all the unnecessary wicked actions and plots to under-develop certain parts of Nigeria and only concentrate every tangible development in the north, God is not mocked. In the end as Korede Bello says
[size=14pt]GOD WINS[/size]

OfoIgbo:
In defence, SE is not the commander in chief, SE is not the chief of general staff, not the chief of army staff, not the chief of air staff, not the chief of naval staff.

in security and intelligence, SE is not the IGP, not the NSA, not the DG DSS, not the DG NIA etc.

The other 10 appointments he made over the past few weeks, none was from the SE.

The only things SE has received from Mumu-hammadu are a collection of Boko boys, and a promise to complete an Onitsha grave site.

The latest now being that in a 38-man delegation to the US, none is from the SE. No wonder Radio Biafra is gaining ground

eagleeye2:
Fayose, I follow you dey watch to see what APC has to offer. I may not particularly like PDP, but the propaganda that brought APC to power is what I am really interested in. I will very much like to see this much taunted Change.

omenka:
Just enjoy what you have and forget about whom to credit with it. But to answer the question, the credit could go both ways: past administrations, including Jonathan's, added some infrastructure to our power sector which should translate into more power generation and supply, none of which happened. But with Buhari's emergence, due to his character as a man intolerant of corruption and incompetence, the managers of the power sector have decided to sit up, roll up their sleeves and try to impress their new Oga at the top or have their assess fired! Had jonathan been more assertive as a leader perhaps one would have witnessed same under him.

Character matters a lot in governance.

For me, it is nothing less than 20hours daily.

Wildrage:
This is madness, are we back to the gestapo era of the 80s where the security agencies do not even disguise their diabolical intrigues? Buhari's dictatorial libido still seems pretty high and the sight of real or imaginary enemies must be exciting to his mojo.

Dss presented all the poo they call evidence this morning and it amounts to nothing but deliberate attempt to connect nothing to something. If you do not have enough evidence to prosecute, why the smear campaign in the press? The upshot of this foolishness is to connect Gej to boko haram and God knows they won't be able to manage the resultant conflagration

CyberTerrorist:
nobody is saying we depend on oil...This thread is aimed to debunk the notion that why we tag SS in our quest is because of oil...it's never because of oil but because of similar political, economic and cultural ideology and also to form a stronger force against potential enemy