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Keneking:


- I cant find the cylinders
- I can see slow motion of the rescue operation.
- I see a truck resting on flat bed.
- But Fashola tried on this road oh

if that is the Igando-Iyana Iba road then it was built by the Tinubu administration which means it is up to 10 years and counting and still looks solid.

OAU, UNILAG, 6 varsities to enjoy uninterrupted power supply
JUNE 22, 2017
By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA- EIGHT Federal Universities are to enjoy uninterrupted power supply from off grid captive power plants, following a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed with the Rural Electrification Agency, REA. University of Ibadan The eight Federal Universities and one Teaching Hospital that signed the MoU with the REA include Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Bayero University, Kano, Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, University of Lagos, Akoka, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, and Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile Ife. The MoU signed by the universities and REA comes under the Federal Government’s first phase of Energizing Education Programme, EEP, which targets nine institutions, and the projects will be completed in 2018, and over 300, 000 students and staff are expected to have access to uninterrupted power supply. Seven of the nine planned power plants (10.5MW out of a total of 26.56MW) will be fuelled by solar energy, in line with the Federal Government’s energy – mix policy. According to REA the programme aims to provide uninterrupted power supply for 37 Federal Universities and seven Teaching Hospitals in the country through the utilisation of off grid captive power plants in a bid to resolve power challenges in institutions of higher learning, and also to add value to staff and students’ performance and productivity. It further stated that the programme will also install street lighting to enhance security measures on campuses, develop and operate training centres for student training on renewable and eventually, extend this uninterrupted power to improve quality of life and economic opportunities in the surrounding rural communities. Speaking after signing of the MoU, the Head of Special Projects, REA, Mrs Anita Otubu, said government has resolved to ensure federal universities and other institutions are at par or ahead of others across the world. Otubu said: “The Federal Government is keen on ensuring that its universities are at par with their international counterparts and recognises access to power as an essential commodity to achieve this.” In his remarks Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, expressed gratitude over the initiative by the government. “We must on behalf of NUC express our gratitude to REA, the Acting President and the Honorable Minister of Power, Works and Housing for this initiative”, Rasheed said. In the same vein Vice Chancellors of benefitting universities also expressed joy over the innovation and move by the government to end many years of power problems in their campuses and said the universities would be placed again on the path of high academic performance and excellence. The Vice Chancellor, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Prof Abdulrahman Saminu Ibrahim said, “I believe it has the potential to do a lot for the universities. I want to commend the stakeholders for this particular innovation.” The Vice Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Prof Emmanuel Kucha, “We were very excited that at last we may heave a sigh of relief. So, we are happy that this programme may finally take off and our university is part of the programme from the onset.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/oau-unilag-6-varsities-enjoy-uninterrupted-power-supply/

FG targets $8 billion forex earning annually from yam export
JUNE 22, 2017
The Federal Government says it is targeting about eight billion dollars as annual foreign exchange from the exportation of yams to other countries if its yam export programme succeeds. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this when he received the Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export Programme in Abuja on Thursday. Ogbeh said the programme to be flagged off on June 29, would enable the country earn foreign exchange from agricultural produce in order to substitute the oil and gas sector. According to him, Ghana is exporting yams but we are not, yet we account for 61 per cent of the world yam production. “This programme has to succeed; we must sell whatever we produce to the world because we are buying too much. We allowed ourselves to be deceived. “I saw the figures of Ghana’s earning from yam export and their targets for the future and it was quite impressive. “If Ghana can aim at a few billion dollars a year from yams, there is no reason why Nigeria cannot quadruple that. “I want this committee to begin to engage team of engineers anywhere in the world. Can we design a plough that can make the yam heap? `We have to mechanise heap making otherwise, in the next five years, because of our aging farmers, you will find out that we do not have yams again and we will get into fresh troubles,’’ he said. Prof. Simon Irtwange, the Chairman of the committee, said that the committee was working with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to train farmers and also improve some yam varieties. The chairman said the committee had prepared a four-year action plan for the yam value chain programme in the country. He solicited for better funding for the committee which was private sector led to commence the programme. “We have standards that we are following and they have to do with pytho-sanitary requirements to meet international standards. “We have combined the standards of Ghana and Nigeria to make sure our yams are not rejected at the international markets,’’ he said. Mrs Elizabeth Nwankwo, a yam exporter, representing Oklan Best Limited, listed some challenges experienced by exporters to include inadequate transportation and lack of quality seedlings. She explained that inadequate storage facilities also contributed to the rejection of the country’s agricultural produce at the international markets. Nwankwo expressed optimism that there would be zero rejection of the country’s agricultural produce, if the challenges were tackled. recalls that the committee was inaugurated in February to facilitate the acquisition of warehouses at the receiving destinations, address markets in Europe and Canada. It will also sensitise farmers and exporters on required international standards of yam before exportation. The committee is made up of representatives from the Nigerian Customs Service, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), among others. The Nigeria yam export programme is aimed at taking yam processing to the next level.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/fg-targets-8-billion-forex-earning-annually-yam-export/

If this is not change I don't know what is, next step other foodstuff and livestock should significantly drop prices and draw back inflation

purposeful and planned development, there is no doubt that we would be thankful that this government came in when it did

purposeful and planned development, there is no doubt by the end of this four years we would be thankful that this government came in when it did

This Govt has encouraged us to remove a50 year old shame from our name, importers of pencil and toothpicks, hope other simple items join the list

NDE Commissions First Made-in-Nigeria Toothpick And Pencil
By Micheal Oche
— Dec 13, 2016 7:31 am | Leave a comment
It was a historic day last Thursday in Akure, the Ondo state capital as the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) commissioned the first toothpick and pencil making factory in Nigeria.
Nigeria with a population of over 170 million persons and being the largest economy in Africa, sadly import every pencil used in the country. This development remains a sad tale in the country’s quest toward job creation and economic development
Quoting a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) report, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said last September that the country spends over $18million (about N5.6 billion) annually on importation of tooth picks.
Also, because there is no factory that produces pencils used by school children and other professionals in West African sub-region, Nigeria, therefore, spends colossal sums of money every year to import this product from other nations. It is estimated that over N750 billion is spent on importing pencils into the country annually.
For a country battling economic recession, spending such hard earned resources on non-essential items is indeed counterproductive.
In June 2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) listed toothpick and 40 other products that will no longer access Foreign Exchange from CBN, banks and bureaux de change for such importation.
The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said the measure would prevent further depletion of the country’s foreign reserve, lamenting that the country was spending huge amount to import things that could be produced locally.
But in line with the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration quest to diversify the economy and encourage local manufacturing, young Nigerians are beginning to see the need to think outside the box.
Speaking during the commissioning, NDE Director General, Mr Kunle Obayan said that the Nigerian economy is facing challenges is no longer news. He said What should make news now are efforts being made to fix the economy
He said, “We may recall that all the tooth pick and pencils used in this country are imported. You may now appreciate why I referred to this project as a novel one. This is probably, the first indigenous toothpick making factory in Nigeria
“It is on record that millions of dollars are spent annually in the importation of toothpicks and pencils. The Central Bank of Nigeria no longer provides foreign exchange for the importation of toothpicks therefore; the viability of this project is not in doubt.”
According to Obayan, it is however time for Nigerians to change the lifestyle of love for foreign goods and adapt to the dictates of our current socio-economic realities.
He said, “We no longer need to import toothpicks from China or any other country for that matter. Let us begin to patronize our own from today henceforth”
He said the expectation of the NDE is that the factory will be able to provide 30 immediate direct jobs and another 150 indirect jobs within the first months of operation.
He said the Directorate will also lay the foundation for the gradual substitution of the importation of toothpicks while aiming at export of same.
On the pencil production, he said all the equipment needed for the production of pencils have been purchased and installed but the authorisation for the use of formaldehyde Resin Powder, an essential commodity in the production process is being awaited.
He said, “I wish to use this opportunity to request the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) to expeditiously approve the application for waiver of End user’s Certificate (ECU) for Urea formaldehyde Resin Powder, an essential input in the production of pencils using waste paper.”
He said when the second component of this initiative takes off, the NDE is confident that over 2,000 jobs would have been injected into the economy.
He said, “We don’t have anybody that does that in Nigeria. We import all our pencils. And we have a beneficiary who has set up a plant to produce pencil. The beauty of this pencil is that it is actually made out of waste paper. It is not from wood. So, it is from waste to wealth.”
In his speech, the Chief operating officer of the toothpick factory, Samuel Babatunde thanked the NDE for the support in the actualization of the project.
He said, “we sincerely appreciate President Muhammadu Buhari whose insistence that we must use made in Nigeria products. Though, to the average Nigerian, this is causing a lot of hardship but there is nothing good that comes easy.
With this development, it is hoped that the process for Nigeria’s economic recovery has begun.

Our amiable Gov did'nt realise that the joke is on him, did he just wake up to see that this road is bad or did the road just go bad in the one year plus the present Government has been in power, his theathrics would have meant something if he had been shouting about it in the past two years.

femi4:
Avogadro's law lo so wipe, Equal volume of all gases, Contain the same number of elements At the standard temperature and pressure

Did you attend BBHS, or were you a student of Mr Ogunyale

it seems PEJ is trying to buy a new life so she can live another 70 years smh

APCHaram:
The famous Groundnuts generated a total of 154,000 pounds.

Cocoa the same.

The only commodity that neared palm oil from the Niger Delta was Tin mining in Jos which wasn't even up to half of that realised from palm oil.

Can you people now shutup on that silly lie that your cocoa and groundnuts were used to develop the oil industry!

well for your information Oil palm doesn't wasn't farmed only in the Niger Delta there was also oil palm in the South west so stop praise singing your self and your region and don't forget also it wasn't until Aguiyi Ironside introduced Unitary system of government was the resources from all regions pooled together so each region was taking care of itself and contributing to the center.

Typical Nigerians chasing shadows instead of substance, rather than analyse and maybe pick an idea or two from the start up techs or just analyse how well the starts ups can impact the country they are busy wasting time on a made man. Fine, his presence may take the spotlight from this young entrepreneurs but for us we must not loose focus of the fact that the event might just produce the next big thing in the tech world and therefore we should start thinking of making the podium on the next event

vedaxcool:
So they don't have sniffer dogs? well government should provide the proper equipment at each airport to forstall such.

how will a dog sniff out drugs in somebody's stomach, Kai.

conductor1:
Source: http://www.somtoo.com/2016/08/aww-ada-ogbonna-names-her-dog-lai.html

fantastic I really like her endeavor I will like to name my pig Ada Ogbonna and my Rat after her father or any of her children to always remind me of her strength

caracas:
Three major factors made Lagos great
1.The igbos
2.Population
3.The ports .
If any of these three above is affected in any way Lagos would crumble.

you keep wishing! Ibos came to lagos because they saw a city that held potential, and why is calabar, port harcourt and all other cities with ports not as big economically as Lagos. And remember Lagos has always being big right from precolonial times. so stop your tribe forward like it is the only one in lagos.

Keneking:
Ok

- I thought APC informed Nigerians that only Lagos Port is the only functional port generating income for FG
- Since the last government failed to dredge the Calabar channel, when shall APC commence dredging operations?
- Even the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ has been removed. But we were told that PDP-led FG did not invest in that port.

They just rode to power with fat lies. Useless party and their propaganda.

Nonsense

Maybe you didn't read the where the concessionaires complained about under utilization of their capacities and the part where the MD of the port who was appointed September 2015 by President Buhari listed how he solved the problems he inherited from GEJ

Johnnyessence:
good question teach them how to fish.instead of them to introduce policies and program that will change things for d poor they are signing mou that will only benefit d estate developers. am 100 percent sure d poor breed won't benefit from it.it's only d riches. why?

So it is the rich that will be the be the carpenter, the plumber, the bricklayer etc smh. some people shaaaaa! Oga you go school at all.

Tomato, welcome back at least this is a respite for the people and government.

Obiano, e be like say na for your soak away this 30 billion barrels of oil and1 trillion cubic ft of gas they abi, lie lie, he lie so tay devil talk say he won do apprentice

Mboi2:
You are the one with childish brain here. That Fashola is taking over to continue from where his predecessor stopped on a project, does it make him the initiator or master minder of the project. The previous govt has made all necessary arrangements, negotiations, and set out modalities on ground with good and experienced contractors to execute the job and paid them the first agreed amount. The only thing Fashola did here was performing his duty as supposed by just making their money available to them to go back to site. Now tell me how is this project his own? If the previous govt did not with the high level of intelligence and technical know-how award and start up this project, Fashola and his team will not know what to do on the road. He will mess it up the way he messed up the power sector.

All these pay-per-post boys, I don't blame corrupt politicians, I blame you boys that made yourselves their tools. When you see grey, you insist it is black because somebody is paying you to call it black. Sorry...

This project is a Federal Government project, Governance is a continuum thus who ever comes into Government continues from where his predecessor stops. Nobody uses his own personal money to execute this projects so no one can lay a claim to it.