₦airaland Forum

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i think they see 2million dollars like 2million naira you know in nigeria they call millions and billions any how,the common man think you can get million dollars from tree dont blame them they dont know the meaning of inflation

buzugee:
click on that link http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB435GB435&q=killed+whites+farmers+in+zimbabwe&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=634

Mugabe really dealt with oyibo peopleoo ooh my GOD

this is serious are you telling me that this Nigerians in Libya never want to go back to Nigeria again? i believe that any human being that still stays in Libya or any country that is going through up rising and rioting and still remain there is not a nice person is a criminal if not what are they doing in Libya for the past 5 months country that is already in a war

htajz:
am not insulting anybody but you people need to understand your not the only ones in nigeria, fight for anioma state but creating a state from south east is pointless, no matter how much money the state will get with curruption it will decay like every other state in the southeast and rest of nigeria just paying salaries not infrastructure.

tell that to yorubas that have no knowledge of the east, your occupying one quarter of delta and almost three quarter of rivers yet you want more, oliver twist.

dont mind my english,na too much interaction with ekiti people.

bolded u are wrong there, in SE we got 3 out of 5 that did well in their states already when it comes to infrastructure  we in SE have already have an independent mind we build roads with our money not government same as houses massive development in  GRA Asaba, igbos have turn the place to small London go their and see the kind of houses this young blood are building over their,so what makes you think that other new states will lack behind.

htajz:
where will they carve it our from, you already have 5 states plus part of river and delta, infact i think your the ones cheating the rest of nigerians,igbos and hausa fulanis are the only ethnic groups occupying 2 or 3 out of the 6 regions thats cheating if you ask me.

is not so my brother we are not occupying any states in delta and rivers we all related with other ethnic group in SS call it effik ibibio ijaw ikwere all got igbo blood in them.

htajz:
wen had enough of all these igbo threads  hello there are 250 ethnic groups and at least 10 nations no be only una dey naija 

but we are the big brother in EASTERN REGION  but we need one more state tho if Nigeria is still gonna exist after Jonathan.

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhh   am just don't get it.they talk from two mouth or may be they want to be neutral in Nigerian concept, because If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Dont mind them, have you notice anything that got igbo in it is like a HOT market don't forget that other tribes are still surprise after war in less than 20 years we get back in our feet control their business and economy before they know it our investment has doubled.So if you ask me if am in their shoes i will be shock too, how come they get their things back in other, in no time,,

oil na big problem for nigeria!!!!

New United States Government cables published by whistleblower, WikiLeaks, have identified a former first lady (names withheld), unnamed highly placed Nigerians, senior military officers, Lebanese, Iranian, British and American businessmen as oil thieves. The cables claim that they all played active roles in the illegal bunkering business in the Niger Delta.


The cables also put the huge loss that the country sustained from illegal bunkering at about 91million barrels of oil per annum.


The three cables containing the revelations were written by US diplomats in Abuja and Lagos and sent to their home governments between November 2004 and November 2009.


The first cable is titled, “Niger Delta: Guns and thugs rule the land”, the second, “Captain Crusader versus bunkering bandits”; and the third, “The fundamentals of illegal oil bunkering in Nigeria.”


The cables detail the security, political, and humanitarian situation in the Niger Delta based on field visits by US political and economic officers and the interviews they conducted with military officers and key players in the illegal business.


One of the cables says, “Illegal oil bunkering runs rampant in the region. Mission reporting has linked shady oil deals to XYZ (a former first lady). Ijaw and Itsekiri youths and elders accuse unnamed high-ranking politicians in Abuja. Unconfirmed reports claim that Lebanese nationals possibly funding the terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbollah, the Russian Mafia, and drug cartels are (also) involved.”


In another cable, a senior military officer who spoke to the Americans likened illegal oil bunkering in Nigeria to the drug trade in Colombia.


While describing how illegal bunkerers operate, one of the cables says, “A tanker (mother ship) anchors approximately 50 miles offshore during daylight to avoid being spotted by Navy coastal patrols. Arrangements are made for villagers to tap into the Delta’s vast network of pipelines, usually in the swamps, and fill small oil barges. At nightfall the mother ship moves closer to shore, where the barges are pulled alongside and the crude is transferred, allowing the tanker to slip away without detection.


“This process of “bunkering” is what has given the business of oil-theft in Nigeria its common name. Aerial and satellite photography confirm the loading of hundreds of barges with oil each day. The barge cargoes transfer to smaller tankers, many of which foreigners operate under false names and registrations. U.S., U.K., and Lebanese citizens participate in this trade.”


One of the key players in the region who also spoke to the Americans said that “powerful men from Abuja” hired locals who worked with oil company employees, security forces and militants to carry out the illegal trade.


According to the cable, “Higher ranking military officers or civilian leaders protected barges of illegal oil against attacks by militants before the amnesty by “settling” (paying) the militants in advance. Operators of tankers and tanker terminals, including employees of major international oil companies and local contractors, allegedly colluded in many illegal transactions.”


The cables claim that Nigeria loses billions per year to oil theft, lamenting that individuals benefitting from the sale of stolen oil do not re-invest in oil exploration or production.


One says, “While some of the revenues may filter down to inhabitants by way of pay-offs, the bulk of earnings are diverted outside the country into the international bank accounts of the beneficiaries.


“Oil theft siphons off the “life-blood” of the Nigerian economy for private gain before taxation or crediting to the national account. Various experts have estimated the volume of oil theft at between 100,000 and 250,000 barrels per day or as much as 91 million barrels per year. This amounts to billions of dollars in lost revenue for the Nigerian treasury every year, regardless of the price of oil on any given day. (NB: At current oil prices the annual revenue loss is between $2.9 and $7.3 billion. END NOTE.)”zzzzzzz


The diplomats who filed the cables wrote that though government officials had repeatedly requested U.S. assistance to prevent bunkering, it was a problem that Nigeria could and should solve.


“The reality, however, is that most oil bunkering is not a global phenomenon readily susceptible to international deterrence, but a largely Nigerian development that requires domestic resolution. No other, major oil-producing country, to our knowledge, loses as much revenue from illicit oil bunkering as Nigeria, largely because the political elite, militants, and communities profit from such operations. Tackling this problem will require resolute political will from many sectors of Nigerian society.”


PUNCH NEWSPAPER

na waaaaooooooo

becomrichv is right i support him on these but he should remember that igbos are developing their region with there hard earn money not from govt thank you!!

Sun of god:
Na normal thing. . . . . .

If you had said "Continuous Electricity in Maiduguri" I would have been shocked.

NL go kill meooo

$tunna:
thanks @all4naija n ak47, !!

Now @goldcircle:
1)the reason you are so confused is that you do - based on your name, actually sincerely believe that everything that glitters is gold, but you r wrong!!!!

2)there is indeed such a thing as fake gold and weather you make a circle or a straight line from such gold, it will still remain fake and smart people know a fools gold from a real gold, okay!! your banana republic

3)every child i born here is/will be delivered in a hospital staffed with distinguished Doctors n Nurses payed for with my taxes (i pay about 200,000.00naira every month in taxes and i think it's okay because, i get really good services back in return like every other fellow country man here)

4) the child n the mother will be at the hospital for 3days at a cost of $25,000.00 (4,000.000.00naira) if there no problem! it can rise to any cost in case there were any problems, i mean any cost it takes to care for the child safely!!

4) you r speaking from a country where recently two ladies i know sent messages two days apart that they lost their babies during childbirth and believe me they both have university degrees n i was and im still in shock for their loss in a country with a lot of people who refuse progress like u!!

5) do you still believe now that i have wronged my future children?? anyways people like u do not hear see or reason as the emotions r too powerful n controls everything u see say or do!!

6)my lil brother had 12 people working for him in the business i trained him in and opened for him before he decided to leave and now lives with his familly in the west without any regrets!! so??

7) so, you must have figured by now that if i came to naija to live as you want me to, you and all your children will be coming to me to give you work!! hahahaha, that is if you r not some landlord making 120,000.00naira a year from one of two flats you own while you and all your wives and kids live in the 2nd flat while dreaming of one day saving enuff to own a place in your banana paradise?!!?

banana maybe sweet, but it's not the sweetest fruit in the jungle and adam and eve did not get tempted over it, so, you see even if all you know is banana n r therefore convinced that it is all there is, you must temper your utterances still as other people have told you here now, because you maybe wrong and right now you r very wrong!!

9) you may be sincere about your beliefs about your banana republic and my situation but you are sincerely wrong!!!

10) i am weary of people like you: a weak man with very strong emotions!!


, and oh yes, hidding behind my HP Pavillion Entertainment Laptop from 2008 - true, but that is becos the new HP Envy 17 i bought for $1,300 or your 200,000.00naira 3weeks ago is still lying around somewhere in my house, and the way i shine, your wife and daughters will wish to be mine in their next life while u and your sons if you have any will wish you was me!!! K, fool!!!

buahahahahahahaha!!!!

lagcity:
this whole federal police thing sef na wah. let each state have their own security force. i tell u a lot of things need to be re-examined in this Nigeria. i think we need to buy papa Jona an African parrot for his bedroom so that whenever Jona wakes up, the parrot will just shout "SNC! Jona! SNC!"

you are funny,

IYA NGBALI:
toto na by force? abeg make dem go sleep jo

look how alj haram hw he was so excited cos he saw igbo name what a joke quick to blame igbos

NNE anam anata na onwa decemba ka m je gba egwu ukwu nwanyi owerri oso gbu gomu [b] ife di na ukwuoooooo [/b]


odi zim ka ugbochi gbwa agbwa ka decemba buru echi ka mu jee alaigbo nwe anwuri biko ife na eme,

Alj haram should join Nigerian police so that he can go and defend his boko haram state

Police officers from the southern part of the country have protested their transfer to what they called, Boko Haram states, especially, Borno and Bauchi. Already, 84 of them, including a female officer who is nursing a baby and whose husband lives in Lagos, have been transferred to Borno. Daily Sun gathered exclusively that the list for Bauchi is being compiled.

The development has created tension, disaffection among police officers, as there are plans to also transfer senior police officers from the same part of the country and are currently living in quarters belonging to the Police College, to the two volatile states.

Daily Sun checks also revealed that those affected by the transfer were police officers from the Lagos State Command living in the Police College compound, inside and outside Police College compound but under the Lagos State command, attached to the airport, seaport, air wing, Force Headquarters Annex, Obalende, Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), those in the Mobile Police Unit, printing press at Zone 2, Onikan and bomb disposal unit.

Some of the officers, who confirmed the transfer to Daily Sun alleged that the Commandant of the Police College, Lagos, Abdullahi Magaji, a commissioner of police, might have used his relationship with the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, to hurriedly eject the policemen as efforts to eject them in the past failed.

Some of the officers who spoke to Daily Sun on the condition of anonymity, wondered why they should be punished by sending them to the Boko Haram states, because they live in quarters owned by the Police College.
“Is it an offence to live in quarters belonging to the Police College? Is it not the same Nigeria police? Why are we being punished? Some of us have been allocated houses outside but we couldn’t move because people are still living in those houses. Are we going to force them out?”

The senior police officers, who said it was usually the responsibility of the Police Service Commission (PSC) to transfer them, appealed to the commission to intervene. They also appealed to the state Commissioner, Yakubu Alkali to wade into the matter.
“We don’t deserve this. This is punishment. What offence did we commit? They want to use our transfer to Boko Haram states as a method of ejecting us and for us to be killed there. We don’t understand Hausa language.”
The letter used in communicating the transfer of the 84 officers is dated August 10, 2011, with reference number CH:5350/WEL.FHQABJ/T/17.

The letter, which was supposed to be signed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in-charge of ‘A’ Department, Mr. Azubuko Udah, was signed on his behalf and Ringim, by K.C. Katso, a police commissioner attached to Welfare Department before he (Udah) could come back from overseas trip.
   SUN NEWSPAPER 

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/sept/06/national-06-09-2011-004.html

A truckload of 152 passengers was yesterday impounded by soldiers in Abuja and handed over to the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to ascertain their identities.

The Federal Government had last Friday ordered security agencies to tighten the nose on terrorists and their sponsors following revelations on the bombing of the UN building in Abuja, on August 26. The attack left 23 people dead with scores injured.

Confirming the arrest to Daily Sun, the NIS spokesman Chief Superintendent Joachim Olumba, disclosed that the suspects were brought into the Immigrations headquarters at about 5pm by the soldiers mounting a check-point at Deidei, a suburb of Abuja.

From their preliminary investigation, he said that the NIS was able to establish that the Abuja-bound trailer conveying the 152 persons, including a woman with her two kids, with all of them speaking Hausa, were coming from Katsina State.

Although he said no dangerous weapons and ammunition were found on them when they were searched, Olumba said they would, however, remain in the NIS custody throughout the night for a thorough investigation to establish whether there were non-Nigerians among the crowd.

“They were brought in here by soldiers at Deidei checkpoint for us to screen them and establish their identities. For the Nigerians, if identified, we won’t be interested in them, but for non-Nigerians without regular status, we will ease them out. Investigation is ongoing and will last into the night and will be done very scrupulously”, the Immigration’s spokesman stated.
Olumba said they had a strong feeling that some of the suspects were non-Nigerians in view of the intelligent information available to the Service on their arrival.




SUN NEWSPAPER

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HW IS IT A FALLACY ??

Soon after Owelle Rochas Okorocha’s election as Governor of Imo State, I congratulated him through a newspaper article part of which read as follows: “Ndi Imo have given Rochas a pedestal no politician in Igboland has achieved in recent times and that is mass passion.

What will Rochas make of it? The choice is his.”
Truth be told, the mass of Imo people and even some persons outside Imo had very high expectations from Rochas. In just three months of his Governorship however, the euphoria in the state is waning. That is to be expected after every election and not just in Nigeria as the reality of governance dawns. However, comments are coming too quick on the performance and direction of the Rochas’ government in just under 100 days.

The Igbo people are not too difficult to govern if you are able to show them you mean well. I will cite two examples – Zik and Mbakwe. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe came into Nigerian politics with about the best educational attainment among his peers and also with the most exposed world view anyone at the time could boast of. Zik made at least two fundamental contributions to the Igbo race. The first was psychological: he brought a sense of “We can do it. We are excellent.

We have confidence in ourselves and who we are.” The second was in education. Zik whose core philosophy was show the light so the people can find the way, did show the way and we rose to the occasion. He stimulated a generation of men following his example to seek the golden fleece. Following the inspiration of Zik, even rather impoverished Igbo communities built their own schools. Communities became challenged. By 1950, and especially in the 1960s, the difference in the educational levels of the peoples on the coast of Nigeria (who had earlier fraternity with the white man’s education) and those in the Igbo hinterland had been considerably bridged. This was just in twenty years or so. And what Zik really did was to provide a conceptual framework and the inspiration that fed the ‘I-can-do’ spirit.

Dee Sam Mbakwe remains the best post –civil war leader of the Igbo in terms of his commitment, sincerity of purpose and tangible achievements. I put him after Zik. After one year of Chief Achike Udenwa administration I had to do a study of the Mbakwe government, published as THE GLORIOUS MBAKWE ERA in 2002, with the hope that people could learn and take corrections. Governance is for the common good and not a parochial enterprise. A government seeking to succeed must do at least four things which are visible in Mbakwe’s government. These are: first, identify what needs the people have, pursue those needs of the people sincerely, take all the components of the state as to be served and not a section of the state. In other words, be even – handed, and fourthly, if the Governor sees an area or direction he wants to take the people, which the people are not yet conscious of, he must make efforts to convince them to go ahead. In effect, the governor must lead and not rule.

Recently, we honoured Mbakwe’s secretary of Government Professor Enoch Anyanwu with a symposium at the multipurpose hall. At that event, I said: In four glorious years, as stated in my book, THE GLORIOUS MBAKWE ERA, a government conceived, built (and in most cases people actually started using), the Imo State University with two functional campuses at Etiti and Aba and another three planned for Awomama, Uvuru and Umuahia, Concorde Hotel Owerri, Resin and Paint Mbaise, Imo Modern Poultry Avutu, Paper Packaging Owerre-Ebiri, Integrated Aluminium Products Naze, Sachs Hercules Naze, Floor Tiles Nsu, Abadaba Lake Resort, Enyimba Hotels Aba, Aluminium Extrusion Inyishi, Golden Guinea Breweries modernization and expansion Umuahia, Metallurgical Complex Aba, Metallurgical Complex Umuahia, Golden Chicken Ogwe, three Power stations at Amaraku, Izombe and Mbalano, Waste Recycling Plant Ofeme, among others. There were also several roads creatively identified and built, urban renewal programs, regional water schemes, etc. These are only a few of what that government achieved in a few sectors, and in just four years.

What is clear from the Mbakwe era is the originality of the programmes. It is clear that serious thinking went into what that government did. Based on the situation at the time, priorities were set and pursued with commitment and there were linkages between each of these activities.

What we learn from the above is that it is possible to be better than we have been. Zik gave us education, but he never really built schools for us nor offered each of us scholarships. He showed us the light and we found the way. Mbakwe gave us electricity, with Imo State having perhaps the most rural electricity access in Nigeria, but Mbakwe never brought poles and transformers to over 90% of our villages. He showed us the light and we found the way. The commonest projects of communal launch in the 1980s and up to the 90s in Imo state was electricity related. Zik and Mbakwe tapped into our Igbo self-help communal characteristics. It is the search of what next and how next, and the crises of direction in Imo state, that has given rise to the situation in which most of our communal development activities are now limited to the churches, rebuilding churches or anything the priests ask us to do.

Government has never and will never do everything for the Igbo. What we need are leaders, and not rulers.
The challenge for Rochas is to interpret his era and challenge us his people who showered so much passion and are therefore legitimately entitled to much expectation from him. He ought to understand and tap into our strengths, weaknesses and needs. We have the opportunity to build on our areas of strengths.

Imo state has suffered much financial and manpower outflow in the last years, contributing to the collapse of the agricultural, industrial, construction and other sectors. Many of our rich people have reduced the rate at which they even visit home or build houses in the villages for fear of crime. That also has reduced rural and urban employment and income. Deficit financial flow into Imo State has to be reversed as a matter of priority. We basically need to bring money into Imo state and the money is in the Imo and Igbo Diaspora, in and outside Nigeria.

When I see the United Kingdom and how they reformed their education sector to obtain serious funds flow into the education systems and economy, when I see the state of Israel and how they have packaged religious tourism and pilgrimage and how much it brings into Israel, when I see the English premiership and its transformation compared to the Italian and Spanish leagues that were the rave some years ago. When I see what United Arab Emirates has done with Dubai as tourism and shopping hub and what they are doing now with Abu Dhabi as intellectual, and education hub, I see possibilities of what a people committed and enlightened can do.

When I look across the Niger and see the vision of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and the Asaba Airport and the engagement of the Business group in Onitsha and Nnewi, I see what a government focused can achieve. When we have created the pre-conditions for a thriving tourism sector adapted to contemporary Imo and Nigeria, even without exceptional natural endowments, we can learn from the French and their Eifel Tower in Paris or the Chinese and their Great Wall and recent human creations as the Water Cube and the Bird Nest. But not an imaginary tourism industry that offers only obscure hotels and immorality as some people will like to see Owerri, which cannot be the point of commencement to drive economic and transformation, as Cross River state ought be learning with the embarrassment Tinapa may have become.

Imo can become the education centre of Nigeria. Rochas can engage the churches in this regard, being the most alive institutions in Imo state. He can borrow from Osun state and her model of University. He can use the Mbakwe model in electricity to pipe water into every Imo village in the next four year. History beckons at Governor Rochas Okorocha. He has aroused passion among our people and what he does with it will define his own fame or infamy. I’d rather all my Governors were leaders and live in fame. The challenge before Rochas calls for clear headed thinking and having a holistic picture of what he wants to do, when and how to do them.

Professor Chinedum Nwajiuba Lectures at Imo State University, Owerri.



SUN NEWSPAPER

[b[b]]‘Nigeria wastes N50b yearly on fake products’[/b]



THE proposed investigation by the House of Representatives into a revenue facilitation concession agreement between the Federal Government and a firm, Single Window System, failed to hold yesterday.

The probe was ordered by the House last July after adopting a motion sponsored by a member, Dogara Yakubu, in which it was claimed that Nigeria would lose some $30 billion as a result of the replacement of the single window system firms by a new one called Single Window System and Technology Limited (SWST). But lack of appropriate document practically halted the conduct of the investigative hearing which was to begin yesterday and last for five days.

Meanwhile, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has said Nigeria may be losing over N50 billion yearly to the importation of sub-standard products.

Exactly four years ago, the same House of Representatives conducted an inconclusive investigation into alleged $16 billion power expenditure fraud between 1999 and 2007.

The drama started yesterday immediately after Speaker Aminu Tambuwal declared the public investigative hearing opened.[/b]The exercise was to begin in earnest when the Ad-Hoc Committee investigating the alleged irregularities in the concession agreement between the Finance Ministry and the revenue facilitation company, SWST, announced its inability to get the required documents to sustain the investigation.

Chairman of the ad-hoc committee and Deputy Leader of the House of Representatives, Leo Ogor, then said: “This public hearing cannot continue as planned because the document we expected from the Ministry of Finance could not be obtained. The Ministry of Finance as the main hob in the agreement was not able to make the required document available. This public hearing has to be put off until Monday when we expect that the document would be available.”

Other stakeholders in the probe expressed dismay that the Ogor-led committee could not obtain independently, the document, instead depended on the ministry which it was set up to investigate.

Ogor, in defence of the committee, stated that the panel was trying to be fair by asking the ministry to submit documents.

In his speech earlier, Tambuwal explained the essence of the investigation, saying: “This legislative inquiry is in line with the transformation agenda and anti-corruption campaign of the Federal Government of Nigeria and responds directly to the yearnings of our people. This House fully subscribes to the transformation agenda of Mr. President and realises that the promises of transformation may not be realised if the nation’s financial base is weak. Therefore, ensuring optimal revenue earnings from our public assets is a sine qua non to the success of Mr. President’s transformation agenda.”

According to the Speaker, “the objectives of this public hearing include – to determine the due process credentials of all activities leading up to the concession and the management of the concession thereafter in the areas of:

• Compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations;

• Procurement of requisite approvals, permits and consents;

• Compliance with the principles of openness, fairness, economy, efficiency, among others, in dealing with public assets; and

• Conformity with global benchmark practices for similar transactions.

The Dogara motion had claimed that the country stood to lose over $30 billion.

It said: “For the next 15 to 20 years, Single Window Systems and Technology Limited, a company which allegedly lack official address, will operate a new National Single Window (NSW) platform - a crucial technology-based import and export documentation services, which already exists and for which the government has spent N300 billion.”

Lawmakers alleged that the job of revenue facilitation is primarily that of the Nigeria Customs Service but was given to the firm in a non-transparent process that totally breached procurement rules, and would tremendously hurt the economy.

“When we start taxing exports for our kind of economy, it will kill manufacturing and destroy jobs,” Dogara said.

The Guardian learnt that “the Single Window System is a trade facilitation idea which enables international (cross-border) traders to submit regulatory documents at a single location and/or single entity. Such documents are typically Customs declarations, applications for import/export permits, and other supporting documents such as certificates of origin and trading invoices.

“The main value proposition for having a Single Window for a country or economy is to increase the efficiency through time and cost savings for traders in their dealings with various government authorities for obtaining the relevant clearance and permit(s) for moving cargoes across national or economic borders.”

In essence, it is a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardised information and documents with a single entry point to fulfill all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria had said that over 90 per cent of contents of containers seized at the nation’s seaports has been identified to be fake and adulterated goods. Their market value is put at N200 billion. Fake spare parts top the list with a market value of over N20 billion.

Other sub-standard goods reportedly imported from Dubai, China and other Asian countries include electronics, assorted baby milk, tyres, cigarettes, helmets, generators, pressure vessels, gas tanks and cylinders and dry cell lithium vehicle batteries.

The Director, SON, Charles Okoro, told The Guardian at the weekend that the country is presently wasting its resources through destruction of substandard products.

He said that it would take the efforts of the government, importers and consumers to put an end to the influx and patronage of substandard products in the country.

Representing the Director-General of SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu at Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies (AES) Excellence Club’s monthly business luncheon at the weekend in Lagos, Okoro said SON is committed to its standardisation policy as part of the strategies aimed at ensuring and promoting competitiveness of made-in-Nigeria products.

In a paper titled: “Positioning Nigerian goods and services for global competitiveness”, he stressed that it is in the best interest of the country for standards to be maintained at the levels of production of goods and materials used by the populace.

According to him, as part of the reforms the present administration is prosecuting to make life meaningful for the citizens, the Council and Management of SON have resolved not to relent in their efforts of maintaining standards of goods produced in the country, hence the introduction of Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP).

Okoro disclosed that the certificate is also aimed at protecting consumers from locally-manufactured sub-standard products, which do not meet the minimum requirements of relevant Nigeria Industrial Standard (NIS), thereby generating confidence that made-in-Nigeria products could provide value for money.

He maintained that MANCAP was also designed to protect genuine manufacturers against unhealthy trade practices, counterfeiting and unfair competition in the market place and to encourage investment. He urged the award recipient to continue to maintain standards as the certificate could be withdrawn if the company deviates from laid down standards.


THE GUARDIAN

nwanne anam ekele unu mma ma nu, ka chukwu gozie unu nile.
mana onwere otu ekwu nga enye unu ebe a,
IFE DI NA UKWU ENJOY!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ewAYNe6ic

EGWUA EGBU GO MU OOO
OWERRI HERE I COME

If you goggle Re: Ozza Joint Ventures Plans $100m Oil Refinery In Abia you will see it there.

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True Nigeria needs to part for 30 years at list before we can think of coming together again which might be impossible by then.

i dont get those northerners they have a pile loads of problem in their region but they still want to rule again this people dont care for the common mallams in kaduna, they are all selfish bastards