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Agriculture › Yam Export: Nigerian Farmers Begin Registration by alfanio(op): 11:53pm On Aug 02, 2017
Yam Farmers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria says it has commenced the registration of its members in the 36 states of the federation to
facilitate the yam export programme. Simon Irtwange, the Acting President of the association, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on
Wednesday in Abuja. Mr. Irtwange, who is also the
Chairman, Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export Programme,
said the registration was to
organise yam farmers across the
country to actualise the targets of
the export programme.
“We are registering yam farmers,
yam processors, yam marketers.
“At the corporate level, we are
registering corporate
organisations that are doing yam
farming, corporate yam farmers,
yam exporters, yam off-takers,
yam aggregators and affiliate
cooperatives.
“Registration has commenced all
over the country.
“So, that process is on-going now;
it is after we have registered that
all these training in collaboration
with IITA can commence
effectively.’’
He advised yam farmers across the
country to form and join
cooperatives societies to facilitate
export of their produce.
According to him, a container of yam is about
12,000 tubers and if you have 12,000 to 14,000
tubers as a cooperative, you can export a
container.
Mr. Irtwange said that the committee would
assist any farmers’ cooperative society by giving
them the templates and requirements to avoid
rejection of their produce at the international
market.
“Whatever we are doing at the level of the
technical committee, we are doing for the
benefit of the yam association.
“We are creating that environment for them to
be able to export their yams.
“They should farm as much as possible; we are
here to ensure that they get the best price for
their farm work.
“They will get premium price for the export
quality yam they are going to sell.
“So, we have to develop the market in such a
way that there are people over there in other
countries that will be ready to off-take from our
people here who are also ready to export.
“We want to build exporter-off-taker
relationship.’’
Mr. Irtwange appealed to the federal
government to establish more modern yam
conditioning centres to aid storage before
export.
(NAN)
Health › Re: I'm Addicted To Codeine , Weed, Tramadol And Many More by alfanio(m): 6:04pm On Aug 02, 2017
Addictedtodrugs:
Good morning Nairalanders

I'm a guy of 25 years old , please I need your help , I'm addicted to drinking 600mg Tramado everyday , drink one bottle of codeine everyday , smoke up to 5 ties of weed every and I self service twice a day before I sleep , I have been doing this since 2014 and I don't think I can stop it , if I try to stop it for 2 days , I will fall very sick , my body will be so hot , my head will be so heavy and I will be shaking , please you guys should help me , what must I do to quit all this because I know I'm hurting my self :
Go see a Doctor who can help you through the withdrawal process and what you are experiencing is a withdrawal process which is normal. You need to stay the course for your sake
Business › Re: Customs Is Dishonest About N486bn Revenue - Omokri by alfanio(m): 7:43pm On Jul 27, 2017
kate29:
https://coseghale..com.ng/2017/07/customs-is-dishonest-about-n486bn.html
Reno! see your life the interbank official rate as at january 2014 was N157 to the dollar, see this https://www.cbn.gov.ng/rates/exrate.asp?year=2014 . Reno see your life again the interbank official rate as at the present is N305 see http://www.cbn.gov.ng/rates/exchratebycurrency.asp
Travel › And-they-killed-nigerian-airways-along-with-others/ by alfanio(op): 8:56am On Jul 25, 2017
Eric Teniola On May 1, 1959 , Nigerian Airways Limited was inaugurated during the tenure of Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola as Minister of Aviation giving Nigeria its fledging national carrier . Chief Raymond Njoku succeeded Akintola as the first Supervisory Minister to herald the new airline. The first board appointed by the government provided policy guidelines for the new Nigeria Airways was headed by Chief T .T . Solaru , while the first General Manager of the airline was an expatriate , Captain L. V . Messenger. Although the basic objectives of the new airline were to carry on the business of air transport, it was established to, among others , serve as national flag carrier and promote the image of Nigeria, and provide a back -up service for security and defence during the periods of national emergency . At the time the airline was firmed , there were 28 airports being maintained by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation . Two of the airports , Lagos and Kano , were designated as international airports while 12 others , including Port Harcourt, Calabar , Tiko ( Southern Cameroon ) , Ibadan , Benin, Enugu , Makurdi , Jos, Yola , Maiduguri , Kaduna, Zaria , Gusau and Sokoto, were opened up for domestic scheduled flight services. By April of 1977 , Nigeria Airways was operating a total of 202 flights every week between Lagos , Accra, Abidjan, Robertsfield, Freetown , Banjul and Dakar in West Africa ; Lagos, Kano , Rome and London on the Europe route and Lagos , Abidjan , Robertsfield and New York on the American route inclusive of all domestic airports . In October 1977 , for instance , the airline inaugurated a commercial flight to Kenya connecting Libreville (Gabon ) and Kinshasa ( Congo) . The following year , May 5 , and August 10 , 1978 , precisely, the airline inaugurated flight services from Lagos to New York via Accra and Robertsfield and from Lagos through Kano to Karachi via Jeddah in Saudi Arabia respectively . At the end of 1978 , the airline had made 27, 518 flight departures, carrying on its entire network , a total of one million, four hundred and forty four thousand, four hundred and thirty six ( 1, 444 ,436 ) passengers that represents a passenger load factor of over 73 per cent , the highest traffic for the airline since 1959. The airline ’s fleet at this period was made of eight F .27 , seven F .28, two B .727 , three B .737 , two B .707 and two DC 10 . In 1982, the airline carried a total of 2 ,138 ,378 passengers on its entire network with the domestic services taking the lion share of 1 ,713 ,455 passengers. It had a reasonably good share of the international market by taking 264 ,132 passengers. The traffic figures improved considerably in the following year with 1 ,704 ,803 passengers on domestic route and 299 , 325 on intercontinental. Traffic in the Africa region was 218 ,994 as against 160 ,791 of the previous year . The airline took delivery of six additional B .737 aircraft to augment its fleet during this period . In 1984 domestic traffic rose from 1 ,568 , 152 to 2 ,089 ,510 ( about 80 per cent increase) . Africa service also provided an increase of 46, 475 passengers over the previous year’ s figures . Intercontinental service in 1985 was 236 ,277 passengers as against 196 ,692 of the previous year. The Airbus was deployed to share international services with the DC 10 . The aircraft also had some share of services on the West Africa routes . During its operation, outstanding pilots including the likes of Bob Hayes , Rufus Orimoloye, Samuel Obioma , Paul Thahal , Bara Alwell -Brown , Akintaju , the late Olubunmi Oke, Nnachi Osakwe, Dele Ore, Joe Ibrahim , Ado Dahiru , Tunde Amusa , Olu Olumogba , Fola Akinkuotu, Bayo Sanyaolu, Tanko Afegbua , Kazeem Braimoh , Akin Odewunmi, Ade Ajibola, Bob Adegbulugbe, Don Chukwura and others worked for the airline . Outstanding Chief executives including Alhaji M. T. Bature , General Olu Bajowa, Air Vice Marshal Anthony Okpere, Group Captain Bernard Banfa, Alhaji Jamiu Ibrahim , Captain Wilson Atabo, Mr . J. Smit, Captain Usman Muazu , Captain Paul Thahal , Mr Andrew Agom, Group Captain Peter Gana , Captain Joe Ibrahim and Mr . Yomi Jones all presided over the affairs of the airline at one point or the other. All these revelations are contained in a 217 - page book titled WT 040 NIGERIA AIRWAYS ’ flight of Problems by Femi Ogunleye who was the spokesman for the airline for 25 years. Femi Ogunleye, who is now Kabiyesi Femi Ogunleye, the Towulade of Akinale in Abeokuta Local Government joined the airline in 1976 after working as the Daily Times correspondent at the Ikeja Airport with the likes of Kola Adesina, Francis Emelefoun/ Mike Edemereyo, Andrew Diojemaou/ James Bello /Richard Amayo , Sehinde Dagunduro, Tayo Falade , Lanre Adebo , Biodun Soremekun , Babson Adeyemi , Toye Akiyode , Kunle Egbeyemi , Tunde Lisboa , Jimi Aderinokun , Dapo Aderinola and Alhaji Adio Saka . Tragically, the airline stopped operation in 2003 . According to a news agency report, “ Plagued by mis-management, corruption and overstaffing ,” as of the time of closure, the airline had debts of more than US $60 ,000 ,000 ( equivalent to $ 78,115 , 051 in 2016 ), a poor safety record , and its operative fleet comprised a single aircraft flying domestic routes as well as two leased aircraft operating the international network . It was succeeded by virgin Nigeria .” Kabiyesi Ogunleye, a golf addict, lamented the death of the Nigerian Airways on page 193 of his book with an eulogy , “ I love my country I no go lie , Na inside am I go live and die , When e push me so, I push am so, E push me , I push am , I no go die (originally sung by a group of pro- democracy in Nigeria)”. No doubt, the book is a good read . For most of us who flew within and outside Nigeria till 2000 , Nigeria Airways was our first choice . The hospitality of the airline was second to none . The story of the Nigerian Airways is a sad story . Yet , those who killed the airline are laughing to the banks today while the workers of the airline are roaming the streets in perpetual penury. Till today, they have not been paid their entitlements including pensions. Thousands of them are affected and some I hear cannot afford to buy drugs for their health. Incidentally , Kenya Airways that was inaugurated in 1977 is still operating . Likewise, the Ethiopian Airline , founded in December 21, 1945 , is still operating . The South African Airways founded in 1934 is still in operation . After the Nigerian Airways ceased to operate in 2003 , President Olusegun Obasanjo set up a committee to probe those who killed the airline and ensure that the culprits were brought to book . The committee was headed by the then Minister of Defence , Gen. Theophilus Danjuma while the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation served as the secretariat of the committee. After the resignation of Danjuma as Minister of Defence , his successor , Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso took over the leadership of the committee. The committee submitted its report to President Obasanjo who directed full implementation of the committee’ s report . The names of the culprits and their companies were then handed over to the Nigeria Police , then headed by Alhaji Mustapha Balogun because at that time the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which was inaugurated that year had not fully taken off until 2004. That was the last we heard about that issue . Today, the culprits are as free as the air . The fate of the Nigeria Airways is not different from the fate of the Nigeria Shipping Line established by the Federal Government in 1959 . In 1988 , for example , the company had 24 ships but by September 1995 , the company was liquidated and all its ships were either sold or seized. Very sad , indeed . Teniola , a former director at the Presidency , stays in Lagos . http://punchng.com/and-they-killed-nigerian-airways-along-with-others/
Agriculture › South West Holds Future Of Food Security In Nigeria – Ambode by alfanio(op): 2:57pm On Jul 20, 2017
South west holds future of food security in Nigeria – Ambode ON July 20, 2017 Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday described the south west region as the next frontier of food security in Nigeria, revealing that an Agric Master Plan that would facilitate the effective use of the massive arable and fertile land in the region would soon be developed.
Speaking in Ibadan during a courtesy visit to his Oyo State counterpart, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Governor Ambode said it was gratifying that all the Governors in the region were in sync about economic integration, and that concerted efforts would be made to fully scale up the agric potentials of the region in the overall benefit of the people. “We have in the pipeline an Agric Summit that we are planning in conjunction with all the south west States and the idea is for us to create a master plan that allows other States in the region to partner with us. “Yes, we have done something with Kebbi State but it is never enough. Lagos State is the major consumer of agric products and the idea is that there are so much of fertile land in the South west and we must quickly start to integrate all the south west States from Ogun to Oyo, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo so that they will be able to provide to us those things that we consume in Lagos. It is a win-win partnership and it is also in the overall interest of the economic integration that we are talking about in the South West,” Governor Ambode said. While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country. “I want to extend my hand of fellowship because I believe strongly that the future of food security in Nigeria actually lies in the south west and we believe strongly that no matter how much of investment we are doing in terms of agriculture, in terms of commerce, Oyo State holds that key also for us to actually integrate backwards and have a bigger GDP for the south west States as we envisioned. “I am happy that in the next few days, we will be holding another South West Governors’ Meeting in Abeokuta and we will also like to use that as an opportunity for us to continue to speak to the future of the Yoruba nation so that we ensure that the future of the region is guaranteed,” Governor Ambode said. Besides, Governor Ambode commended Ajimobi for his infrastructural renewal efforts in Oyo State, especially the capital projects and public private partnership initiatives that have been undertaken in recent time, saying that the steps aimed at modernizing Ibadan were in the right direction. Responding, Senator Ajimobi said Lagos, as the economic capital and most viable State in Nigeria, has a pivotal role to play in the economic development and sustainability of the south west, and that he was happy that the State is being governed by Governor Ambode, who he said has the temperament to play such role. He said Lagos is in a position to help the South West in terms of economic integration and development and by extension the rest of Nigeria, just as Oyo State is also the political capital of the region. He recalled how former Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu laid the foundation for a greater Lagos and Babatunde Raji Fashola built on it, while Governor Ambode is presently giving Lagos a balloon push to intellectual and modern age. “Governor Ambode is undoubtedly Mr. Consolidation, undoubtedly Mr. Transformation, undoubtedly Mr. Repositioning. Beyond any doubt, he has repositioned Lagos State into what I call the IT level, the sophisticated level and each time I visited Lagos, the Governor is also Mr. Beautification. Virtually everywhere he is expanding the roads and making them better; he is building overhead bridges and beautifying the State, and all sorts and I envy you,” Governor Ajimobi said.
Politics › Re: UN Commends Osinbajo’s Handling Of Bakassi Crisis by alfanio(m): 2:10pm On Jul 20, 2017
Travel › Re: Truck Containing Gas Cylinders Crashes In Lagos (photos) by alfanio(m): 7:08pm On Jul 18, 2017
Keneking:
undecided undecided

- I cant find the cylinders sad
- 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.
Politics › Re: FG Targets $8 Billion Forex Earning Annually From Yam Export by alfanio(op): 7:01pm On Jun 22, 2017
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/
Politics › FG Targets $8 Billion Forex Earning Annually From Yam Export by alfanio(op): 6:34pm On Jun 22, 2017
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/
Agriculture › Re: Fresh Tomatoes Arrive Lagos From Kano By Train After 58 Years. See Photos by alfanio(m): 12:48pm On Mar 15, 2017
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
Politics › Re: Fashola Lists Top Federal Road Projects For 2017 by alfanio(m): 4:48am On Feb 08, 2017
purposeful and planned development, there is no doubt that we would be thankful that this government came in when it did
Politics › Re: Fashola Lists Top Federal Road Projects For 2017 by alfanio(m): 4:46am On Feb 08, 2017
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
Business › Re: Nigeria's First Pencil And Toothpick Factory. by alfanio(op): 11:50am On Dec 16, 2016
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
Business › Nigeria's First Pencil And Toothpick Factory. by alfanio(op): 11:48am On Dec 16, 2016
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.
Politics › Re: Fayose To Fix Federal Government Road In Ekiti State (photos) by alfanio(m): 2:55am On Nov 27, 2016
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.
Science/Technology › Re: 4 Scientists Whose Works Were Not Appreciated Until Their Death by alfanio(m): 7:44am On Sep 17, 2016
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
Politics › Re: The $15m In My Accounts Is For Medical Bills - Patience Jonathan by alfanio(m): 9:17pm On Sep 14, 2016
it seems PEJ is trying to buy a new life so she can live another 70 years smh
Politics › Re: Annual Report Of 1914: Palm Oil Highest Revenue Earner by alfanio(m): 10:39pm On Sep 10, 2016
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.
Politics › Re: Mark Zuckerberg Meets Buhari And Osinbajo (Photos) by alfanio(m): 11:19pm On Sep 02, 2016
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
Crime › Re: Why Pilgrims Caught With Drugs In S/arabia Were Not Detected In Nigeria – NDLEA by alfanio(m): 11:59pm On Aug 21, 2016
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.
Pets › Re: Ada Names Her Dog "Lai Mohammed," Says It Resembles Information Minister by alfanio(m): 10:27pm On Aug 19, 2016
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
Politics › Re: FG To Review Calabar Port Concession Agreement Over Low Cargo Volume by alfanio(m): 2:57pm On Aug 13, 2016
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.
Politics › Re: FG To Review Calabar Port Concession Agreement Over Low Cargo Volume by alfanio(m): 2:52pm On Aug 13, 2016
Keneking:
Ok

- I thought APC informed Nigerians that only Lagos Port is the only functional port generating income for FG embarassed
- 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 embarassed embarassed embarassed
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
Politics › Re: Adeosun Signs $500m Real Estate/$200m Agriculture Agreement by alfanio(m): 2:45pm On Aug 13, 2016
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.
Food › Re: Now That Tomato Is Back by alfanio(m): 1:16pm On Aug 01, 2016
Tomato, welcome back at least this is a respite for the people and government.

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