₦airaland Forum

Ikengawo:
already someone is blaming the nigerian government

this isn't the nigerian government getting deported, it's nigerians.

there's nothing the nigerian government has done bad that the sudanese one hasn't done worst in an attempt to kill all blacks in their country.
but nigerians still found reason to go there instead of going to at least lagos and applying for jobs like a human being.

its embarrassing, but we should REALLY stop reporting in our news outlets who gets deported from what country.
i have never heard, in all my years of watching american news, about americans getting deported.

americans get deported every day, but it's not news. you can't honestly live in a country od 150 million ppl and report every single time one of them gets deported.

Do you think before you type?Do you know the army of graduates and unemployed people applying for jobs in lagos?Do you know there is population explosion there?

Most eduacated nigerians are blinded by 'coporate work'.

Fhemmmy:
Even if they dont, what do you manufacture?

Crude oil

You know say naija peeps like 'foreign goods'

Who will save Enugu coal mines?
•Abandoned for 18 years, hope dims for Onyeama mines, but
demand for coal keeps rising
By PETRUS OBI, Enugu
Wednesday, March 24, 2010


• Onyema mine,  a ghost of its former self
Photo: Sun News Publishing
More Stories on This Section
Onyeama mines used to be one of the underground mines operated by the Nigerian Coal Corporation from inception. It was producing coal which was assembled alongside the coal from Okpara Mines and ferried by overhead cables known as the area rope way; they are ferried to the Oji power plant, 40 kilometres away to power plant. The place was active until 1992. Then it was aba.

The problem of the Onyema Mines which today is a complete ghost of its former self could be traced to the beginning of the Civil War when coal exploitation stopped. Acting Managing Director of the Enugu Coal Corporation Chief Denis Okafor explained that in underground coal mining, “as you are digging out the coal water is sipping in from the roof. So you are constantly pumping out water, evacuating the mine; once the pump stops you start having what we call flooding and in the flooding you are also having silting-that is sediments are being deposited; eventually for three years, during the war which Onyeama didn’t function, the mine became silted up and efforts have been made since the end of the war to bring it back to its former shape; of course you know, once it spoils it’s difficult to go back to what it used to be.

We have tried a number of projects on it and it didn’t quite work. However there were good intentions to use other methods to resume coal production but of-course you now know that the Federal Government has a new policy of privatization.”

“And the way it affects the coal industry is that all the areas Coal Corporation used to operate are put into blocks and they are to be advertised for the private sector to come in. The idea is that government wants to pull out having realized that it has not been a good business man, and now wants to push in the private people and stay at the background to monitor what they are doing. So there is this privatization process which started around the year 2000, but has not been as fast as expected because it’s not everybody’s business; coal exploration is not everybody’s market so you don’t expect too many players.

The first bidding exercise was done in 2007 and those blocks, Onyeama and Okpara mines out of the other 10 blocks were won by Global Infrastructure, the same company that operated the Ajaokuta Steel Company; they won the Okpara and Onyeama blocks. Of course you know their problems, you know their history; the idea was to use the coal from here to service Ajaokuta Steel instead of importation. But since they couldn’t continue in Ajaokuta, they couldn’t even pay the first 10%, that’s why everything seems to have slowed down. When they couldn’t pay up, their winning were revoked; that’s why for now, Onyeama and Okpara mines are still open for another round of bidding. “Out of the 10, only three of the blocks were completely paid for; and those were the ones we have in Kogi state; three blocks there have been fully paid for; but the remaining seven are to be re-packaged for another round of bidding.

Only private enterprise can revive coal mining
Sitting in what appears a make-shift office in the isolated and dilapidating Coal Corporation Office along Okpara Avenue Enugu that afternoon, the acting MD of the corporation fully expressed his support for the privatization of the coal mining business since government has failed.
Said he; “You know that anything underground is the property of the federal government of Nigeria; the federal government decides on who takes what. Actually in the privatization exercise, the thinking was that government has tried and they should give way for the private people; and you will agree with me that if Onyeama mine is owned by an individual it cannot be the way it is now.

There is also the dirty aspect of it, the attitude of the people; you can see what Onyeama looks like now, everything is being looted and vandalized. We have a police investigation going on there people are even trying now to move in there with bulldozers to cart away things; this is our attitude. This is opposite of what we have in Kogi; all the equipment we packed there like we had in Onyeama are intact. The natives also mobilized their own vigilante to back-up the few security men we left to watch over the equipment, because they know that one day it will be used to develop their place but our own here is open to looting and vandalization. We have informed the security agents and they have been doing their own bit to check this spate of looting and vandalization; but you can see what is going on.

Workers were first victims
“At the onset of privatization the first victim was the worker because if I were given Onyeama Mine to operate, maybe government was maintaining about 2000 or 1000 people there, doing all kinds of things, you know how government agencies operate; the private man may say instead of five people here I can have one person. So at the onset of privatization, the idea was that government is pulling out, so everybody needs to go; when the new investor comes he will source workers from amongst you but he will only take those he needs. So there was this retrenching of workers and to some extent they were paid their entitlements.

He recalled what the then Minister told the workers during her visit; ‘because you people are not functioning, government could no longer raise money to pay your salaries.’ As at that August 2005 they were being owed 39 months arrears of salary. She promised to go and source money and make sure those 39 months are cleared. So, that initial 39 months was cleared and then the severance package also paid. But you know there will always be some Omissions, problems, this and that, pensions, all those are being addressed by government for now.”
Future of coal mining in Nigeria

Nigeria coal is in very high demand; on daily basis here you have people making enquiries on the Nigeria coal; can you supply us, can you…but we keep telling them there is no supply for now. Everybody should slow down until government comes out with the new package of how to exploit these coal resources. First of all, the present government insists that Nigeria coal will first of all serve for power generation before any other thing; not export; of-course even if you talk of export, the facilities are not there yet. So a lot of work must be done before you can talk about export; but local need, power generation is the word and this is what everybody is looking at. If all the blocks are given out and all each block starts generating power there will be a lot of improvement in power supply in the country. So we know coal eventually will come back; there is no problem, its underground, the more it stays the more it matures.”

Chief Denis Okafor concurred that the vandalization at the Onyeama mines is a bad signal to investors. He however noted that whoever is coming there is coming with a new technology; “it’s no longer the ancient technology we used in our time. So things may definitely have to change; the structures may change and it’s going to be a new thing completely.”

No fear of Earthquake
He further dismissed fears that the underground mining may lead to some natural disasters such as earthquake. “People are talking about earthquake, this and that; these are not the things that cause earthquake; earthquakes are caused by underground seafloor movement, it is not mining; it has never happened anywhere. So we have no problem with the site; it’s just that our attitude to government property has to change and then the privatization exercise has to continue and get to an end so that if the private sector takes over, instead on one Coal Corporation you will have ten coal corporations competing.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/mar/24/national-24-03-2010-29.htm



Why can't we make use of the coal we have before venturing into nuclear

If i may ask USA generates a substantial amount of its energy from coal.What is wrong in using the coal deposits in enugu and environs to generate energy which is cheaper and less dangerous before we delve into nuclear  

biina:
meaning hat/cap for male friend?

something like that

if you want to diversify the nigerian economy it has to be 'forced'

@Sky Blue

I believe that Josephine Anenih is from anambra state because i remember that when Soludo was campaining for the anambra election Tony Anenih who accompaniened Soludo made a statement that Anambrarians can consider him(Anenih) as the ir brother since he married from there ans they can also regard him as Anene.

Sky Blue:
I was just about to say that (why all the caps lock? ? ? ?)

No need to once again misdirect all the frustration, for once let us channel it at the right source. State governors nominate ministers, what is important right now is what ministries the selected people are placed in. People angry with[b] Josephine Anenih in the list should go and ask Edo State government[/b] why they nominated her. Let us stop being deceived, for once please let us think with a clear head.

From the list Josephine Anenih is from Anambra state but i wonder if it is Peter obi that nominated her  

MRbrownJAY:
are you actually saying that this man, because he is black, cannot be turned off by black women and MUST be attracted to black women?! he MUST put black women in his videos because he is black?! LOL
is that some kind of requirements in our genes? "you must always be attracted to your own race"

and then people dare say that HE has an inferiority complex?! looking at it this way, it seems like YOU have the inferiority complex where you demand that there should be blacks in his videos even if he desires not to.

who cares if ONE black artist doesnt want to have blacks in his videos? is that going to change anything in our social standing? is that going to make any difference in YOUR life?

as eldee just said: why dont you guys cry "racism/inferiority complex" when white artist use only black dancers/back up singers?

Is there any example ?

i pity nigeria

[quote author=dem_people link=topic=418230.msg5753155#msg5753155 date=1269376035]Nigeria: A country where failures and recycled failures, are celebrated. All these people that I've been hearing their names since my primary 2 in school, are still dominant in our political arena. Rubbish. And you wonder why the world doesn't take us (and indeed all black people) seriously!!! [/quote]

hey anyone pls

biina:
What is the word for condom in the various languages (yoruba, Igbo, Hausa etc)

igbo- okpu nna bu enyi

So nigerians are actually expecting something different  

Una never see anything

Tippy Top:
Afam you took the words right off my mouth. Who are we debating with here? How can the South ever produce a president in an election considering the size and population of the North?
It's in the interest of Southerners to make zoning work else we can kiss bye bye to ever ruling Nigeria.

PEACE OUT!!!

you honestly think the population of geographical north is larger than the population of geographical south?

lolob:
hi,

how to say sth like "never forget" or "remember me" ?!

never forget- echefula m

remember me-cheta kwa m

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=417715.msg5749989#msg5749989 date=1269349186]the jos crisis can be solved if the govt put in the necessary remedies to solve it.i remembered when the niger delta crisis started.some thought it would blow into a civil war but here we are today,peace is returning to the region because the govt is giving the crisis necessary attention.it takes only poltical will for govt to achieve anything.[/quote]and you think government will do the first bolded

At second bolded you really think peace has returned to niger delta

Dana Walsh

Can someone pls give me a link to watch the movie:The international starring Clive Owen

Kobojunkie:
After that kind of discussion, I would never speak to the woman, and get to serious prayer that my children do not inherit any of that. ROFLMAO!!

After she made that statement i lost appetite for the food i was eating that time .

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=416636.msg5746291#msg5746291 date=1269293698]@Dayokanu
Excess exposure to the rubbish some people say on NL can shorten one's lifespan. Very soon dem go dey compare[b] Benedict Akwuegbu to Gerd Muller or Juergen Klinsmann[/b]
@Chic2pimp
It never ends on this site[/quote]    

Sjeezy take note again

I once had an arguement with the mother-in-law of a friend of mine and to be honest i was stunned with what she said.

She said that it was good that nigeria is experiencing economic problems because it brings people closer to God and also set up churches unlike in the west that has become Godless because of economic prosperity or as she termed 'things are easy for them'

nna this Ezeuche too dey yarn cigar

Religion has actually caged people's mind in the country