Vaughanlanrewaj:



Hahaha....$94m is not just in Ghanaian cedi. Ghana denominated by knocking off a few zeros just few years ago and the new cedi has been devalued by several times such that new cedi is an equivalent of about 60K old cedi.
That country is far behind put putting up so much PR including ad on CNN. It was not even among the top 5 foreign investment destinations in Africa despite having a nascent oil industry.
We may have our issues but Ghana with such little population is even behind Lagos in terms of investment and GDP.

Godblessbiafraa:



That's the more reason they should let Igbos go their way


#GBB

Godblessbiafraa:
You can't compare Ghana with the big for nothing Nigeria


God bless Biafra

UnabashedIPOB:
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said it will build a gas-powered plant in Maiduguri, Borno State to address challenges in electricity supply to the area caused by incessant Boko Haram attacks

The above statement is akin to "Monkey dey work, Baboon dey chop." The area where the gas that sustains the ZOO is produced don't the people deserve to have constant power supply? Does it mean that every infrastructure imaginable MUST go to the north? When people say that they are tired of your insensitivity and callousness, and want to take their destiny in their own hands by going their separate way you say, NEVER! Who the F**K are you?

techmo:





Only in Nigeria will you see people who haven't paid $1000 in tax or developmental levy in their life want steady electricity

Even people who ran off in diaspora think they have any right to dictate how the rest of us struggle to run Nigeria

If you have any brilliant idea apart from wailing, go get your PVC, or join politics




.

spacechuks:


Ghost town with total darkness, whereas we have what could change our lot,

We need restructuring, we need to control our gas and oil, we need to better the life of our children to come, we cant afford to continue this way ,

We are suffering whereas our land is blessed, we are denied federal jobs in nnpc ,nlng ,dpr etc , yet our southern leaders are okay with the trend

michlins:
Where will the gas be coming from? This administration is plain stupid. The insane amount of money it will cost to lay pipe from South to far North will be enough to establish very big solar system in same North and it will forever solve their power issues.


The the South can use gas from oil rigs that are flared.
.
Who advises these people

Wizzzzmike:


Illiterate at its peak Lol...why did you mention Ghana, when Ghana has nothing to do with price of cement in zoogeria lol... Lagos economy is bigger than Ghana but yet they're more poverty in Lagos than he whole of Ghana... I see stupidity is friend huh?

InyinyaAgbaOku:


See him happy that the same white men are against the possibility of a great black nation in the coming of Biafra.
To think his prototype of a great black nation is Nigeria as it it where nobody knows whether he will see the next day thanks to state sponsored terrorism , you begin to see that the black race is a hopeless one since Nigeria is the best she can muster.
Rossikke , with you, it sucks to be black

Idiko1:


The structure will never see a drop of gas. Where will the gas sourced? I hope the plan is not to source the raw gas from Niger Delta or southern Nigeria? If Lagos and Abuja cannot be restructure in the defunct eastern region and midwestern region respectively, it is safe to say disintegration of Nigeria is the sure best thing.

Yankee101:
Niger republic...

History555:



Oga you and many lgbos that respond to threads on why biafra is bad for lgbos are disappointing us.

Ask your self why people are creating multiple threads all advising lgbos but the same people have never created a single thread on the menace and atrocities committed by fulani herdsmen and bandits.

Ask your self why people get jittery at mention of ipob, biafra and esn but are calm, cool and calculated at mention of herdsmen, bandits and boko.

Ask yourself why any little incident in the east generates so much attention whereas multiple incidents in the north generates no reaction. Example, this week there was imo police hq attack there was close to hundred threads and thousands of comments. But bandits killed 9travellers in kaduna and abducted 28, yet there was just one thread with 28 comments. Bandits attacked villages in niger state, yet just one thread.

Lastly ask yourself when all these hypocrites, idiots, dunderheads and asswipes giving advice to lgbos up and down began to care and love lgbos

As an lgbo man, your attention is needed to fuel all these useless threads, pls learn to ignore them. We are not the only tribe in nigeria. All these busybodies should shove their advice down their throats

Rossikki:


Wrong. Many countries have calmed down after years of being on the precipice. The United States is one such nation. Their history is written in blood, slavery, riots, racism, lynchings, oppression, and genocide.

Yet look at them today.

Russia under Stalin was a nightmare, with an estimated 10 million Russians killed by his regime.

Yet look at them today.

You'd never know unless you were told.



Boko Haram are not seeking secession, and so do not attract the full force of the Nigerian military against them.

It is when you seek secession that you will know you are dealing against the entire world, not just Nigeria.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
It won't exist and year in year out, you are worried about it, just like Nigeria. So much energy exerted on sth that won't exist.

And you even need the validation of other countries, including the Ines you tagged racist to prove your point. Oga, there is nothing superpower about Nigeria as we speak, the country is in a downhill slope, answering present in all bad indices.

Peaceful secession is suddenly more problematic to you that the terrorism , the banditry and yet another terrorism called Fulani herdsmen.

Rossikki:


You are the very epitome of ignorance, colonial miseducation, self-hatred and stupidity.
You are an utter disgrace to whoever gave birth to you, and I sincerely hope you don't infect your offspring with your poisonous, disguting self hatred and inferiority complex.

Rwanda, Ghana, Botswana, Tanzania, Angola, Kenya, Senegal, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Jamaica are all fully black nations and are all doing well with fast growing economies. You've travelled to not ONE of those countries, guaranteed, but you've already formulated in your little dumb head that only countries with other races included with the blacks do well.

As for the other vomit you typed regarding ''Put [blacks] all in one place without mixing them any race then you will see how they will denigrate that place without any development.''

Explain THIS:

Benin Empire report by the UK Guardian newspaper:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.''

''The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.''

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours.. to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.


African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”


At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

omonnakoda:
You are clearly out of your depth
The greater the productivity the higher the interest rates
You just spout glib nonsense after nonsense with such effrontery

Please stick to the US and do not bring Japan into it that is a futile attempt to pretend you have a clue what you are talking about
Interest rates are low because of economic stagnation

It is a monetary policy intended to increase the money supply . At the moment it is effectively less than zero that means there should be marked erosion in value of the dolar but this is not happeing because the demand for dollar remains high
IS THIS BECAUSE OF WHAT THE US SELLS TO THE WORLD? Does the US sell as much as China? Yet we buy dollars to shop in China

This high demand for dollar is a legacy of World War 2 that is enforced by many coercive tools
The international SWIFT trading system based in Belgium is effectively under the US control they can kick anyone out of it at will . Ask Iran

Is it rule of law to force countries not to trade with Iran? A clear violation of international law
Is it rule of law what is happening with Venezuela?

omonnakoda:


I beg to differ


It is the ""strongest" economy for so many reasons
It grew capital from the sslave trade and it won World war 2 and has the might to coerce evry nation on the plabet to use the dollar whether they like it or not
Every time two countries trade invariably they use the dollar and the US gets arbitrage every second for over 60 years

Nothng has changed since the British snatched Hong Kong from China with gun boats in 1898 except there is a new sheriff in town and they don;t have to colonise you officially just use the dollar and every now and then force the victims to devalue their currency or accept other indignities

Somehow there is always capital for miracle companies like Amazon and Starbucks and Facebook in America but where does that Capital come from? considering the size of debt in the US how come interest rates are still near zero?
Let us leave the naive talk.

Might is what determines wealth whether at the individual or national level

omonnakoda:

You are introducing facts about Panam and Seychelles which I am not prepared to discuss and frankly are irrelevant.
At any rate did those places exist in those days ,did Bitcoin? You are very assertive with your opinions. There are plenty of monopolies now and in the history of capitalism . They dress them up differently and call it intellectual property , patents etc.

How many competitors were there for Coca Cola,/Pepsi. MacDonald/Burger King, Pfizer, Xerox, IBM Esso, Microsoft, Intel. I can go on for ever .
This is our developmental stage right now. That is capitalism.

Is Dangote the only monopolist in Nigeria? It is better described as an Oligopoly because he is not the only one selling cement but we see it in mobile Networks , Pay TV , Shell ,Julius Berger Mobil etc

Anyway I am not here to defend Dangote just to set records straight

There is too much emotional stuff here . Let us be factual
Almost every industry is oligopolistic.. Pharmaceutics, electronic, Oil and Gas


No one talks about Shell


No single company has done more damage in Nigeria

Wizzzzmike:

Lol illiteracy is indeed a disease. Zoogerian calling someone monkey..lol

omonnakoda:
Go and study how America developed capitalism.
Study the lives of Rockefeller, Ford, Walton etc
Dangote is doing his share. He is buildin a refinery which he will probably not be around to enjoy

You do your bit

obyrich:
1500 is too much. Let him first reduce it to #2500.