₦airaland Forum

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Is that the only thing you picked from what he said?

that is the only thing I wanted to point out and he understood that

rudebouy:
U guys like to argue abt wot you have not seen and where you have not been. I have sed it over and over again dat it is only boundary communities with abia and anambra in akwa ibom dat speak igbo. I dont know natin abt cross river state but am pretty sure those cross river community dat speaks igbo wd be boundary communities too.

U guys sed etches are igbos but I was in etche last month for a town hall meeting and I asked the chiefs and youths in etche if day were igbos, and day all denied being igbo even when it takes just 100 naira to move from etche to imo state. Why dont you guys let others claim to be igbos, why wd u be claiming oda ppl instead? Its just funny I swear.

anambra has no boundary with akwa ibom so say something else

Seems there are more borrowings to be done

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/23/enugu-lawmakers-approve-n14b-loan-for-ugwuanyi/

HappyJoe:
I am quoting figures from the Geological Survey.

The British were not stupid to establish coal mines in Enugu and a cement factory at Nkalagu.

We have been stupid ever since, allowing all this mineral wealth to lie fallow.

haha I guess that is what easy (oil) money does..i also know there is limestone though of lesser extent in parts of northern abia(arochukwu to be precise)

BuddahMonk:
Well its true, SE is the onlly region in Nigeria where the natives control 90% of the economic activities.

Imagine in Benue they couldn't raise a billionaire that will be exploiting their solid minerals.

In Kogi an outsider is mining the minerals.

In Edo State outsider.

In ogun state outsider

Its only in Igboland that natives dominate both primary, secondary and tertiary industry.

Igbo wealth is in the hands of Igbos aswell.

ebonyi is not only the part of igboland rich in.limestone....abia arochukwu axis is also rich (though lesser) in limestone

HappyJoe:
Why doesn't Dangote invest in the South East?

The simple answer is that it is the most competitive region in Nigeria.

What are Dangote's main businesses? Cement and commodities.

Ebonyi has about 720 million tons of limestone, but Ibeto has locked that in. He's unlikely to be able to compete with Ibeto here. Ask yourself, is there any Yoruba man competing with Dangote in the cement business? Any Kogi or Benue person? No.

Consider Rice, Dangote has rice farms in Edo and Sokoto. Doesn't really have a competitor, but when you get to the rice growing region on Anambra, you already have the likes of Coscharis there. Why would he want extra competition?

that 720m tonnes sounds a bit too large though

centje:
Afam4eva, you won't win this argument.
So, innoson that cited his Base in the East is not surviving? The business I am going to run will have its Base in Enugu but branches nationwide. If our elders had followed this reasoning there's no way we would be threatened with lagoon or boko haram.

The truth is that Igbos fell for the systematic plot to suppress Igbos, as aftermaths of Biafran war.

Up till this minute, transportation is crippled in the East. It's a serious issue in whole Nigeria but it's worst in the East.
Companies can easily move their products to distant cities and countries with good transport system.
Every Region in Nigeria got international airport many years back, some even had two international airport, but south east is yet to have a true international airport.
Onitsha-enugu Road is scary and nauseating, this a road that companies can easily use to move their products to onitsha commerce. Enugu-portharcourt Road is a nightmare. Railway is still far from being effective.
The only effective seaport is in lagos and no plan to decongest it and help other region.

we should blame ourselves for the state of Enugu Onitsha and Enugu ph expressway

Hypocrisy is when we don't tell ourselves the truth..if the country likes concentrate most money making revenue generating infrastructure and outfits nothing ambode would do to solve the issue

patrick89 where is Chris ubo from?

mickey45:
Pricing is still highly regulated, and given how they got capital and how quickly they'll want to pay back, the current pricing system does not really favour their doing that with prepaid billing. Hence the Estimated billing thing. But if they're able to ensure everyone gets the Prepaid meter, maybe then estimated billing might stop.
Moreover, I've seen a house built and occupied by the State Governor's direct uncle who runs govt. Contracts plus other perks yet deviced a way to beat the prepaid meter thing. Won't share the method here. That's part of the problems DISCOs face andit backfires on both the TRAnSCOs and GENCOs
We'll get there.

no excuse for estimated billing nonsense.
I should pay what consumed not what disco think I consumed...i don't care how the got the loan and if people are discovering how to subvert prepaid meters it is left for the technical partners of the discos to find the way to stop it..i should not be made to pay 13000naira estimated billing when a neighbour that has almost the same gadgets as me uses only 4k prepaid card..Na for Nigeria we go dey give excuse for illegality and outright thievery

mickey45:
I think Nigeria's power problem is not more a Generation problem than it is distribution, some DISCOs are having a hard time getting paid by customers.
You might want to analyise the whole chain.

the discos themselves do they really want to deploy prepaid or they want to continue estimated billing?

BuddahMonk:
I don't know if there is any diary farm in Anambra State yet, majority are fisheries and poultry farms

I meant cattle or should I say diary farm that investnow said that now existed in the state.


By the name 'sule farms'..that means northerners are now setting up outfits in the state

Abagworo:
Owerri mall nearing completion.

http://newsafricanow.com/2015/09/owerri-mall-nears-completion-opens-in-november/

BARRING any
last minute
hitches, the
Owerri Mall
located at
the old
Somachi
Park near the
Imo State
University
will open in
November.
Coming as a joint venture involving Resilient Africa,
Somachi Investments, Terrestrial Real Estate and Median
Infrastructure Development Company Limited. The gross
lettable area is 9,800 square metres and marketed by Broll
Nigeria, the sole letting agent. The shop sizes range
between 20-450 square meters and under a minimum two
years lease period.


Speaking during a tenants’ forum and a press briefing at
the Oriental Hotel in Lagos last week, senior officials of
Resilient Africa disclosed that 65 per cent of the mall has
been leased out and initial opening day is slated for
November.


As part of its commitment to ensure tenants adapt to the
environment, the first set of tenants have been offered
‘beneficial occupation’ from end of this month, which is the
rent free period allowed the tenants to fit-out their shops is
between 30-60days depending on the shop size.
According to the chief operating officer, Resilient Africa,
Eddie McDonald, the lowest annual rent is pegged at N3,
600,000 and available for 42 shops, excluding Shoprite who
is the anchor tenant.


Construction work is nearing completion on the Shoprite
Box and will be handing over the premises soon for internal
fit-out. The whole project is within finishing phase where
services are being installed, these include sprinklers, HVAC
and Bulkheads within the shops and in the mall.
Service charge will cover the expenses in refuse removal,
security, air conditioning running and maintenance. Others
are building amenity cost, towel and toiletry services, cost
of maintaining indoor and outdoor plant, landscaping cost,
maintenance contracts, cost of redecoration and planting
as well as the salaries and wages of the management and
maintenance staff engaged by the landlord amongst others.


The Portfolio Executive, Broll Nigeria Limited, Yohan Blom,
explained that a total investment of $150m had been
committed so far to three malls in Nigeria namely Warri,
Owerri and Asaba adding that the major objective of the
Resilient Africa’s initiative was to provide a world class
shopping experience. The parking capacity of the Werra
mall is 536 slots.

all the short cut rds that meets the egbu road that this owerri mall is situated need rehabilitation as they are dilapidated now

investnow2013:
There are many of them only that I cannot provide their names at the moment.There are some arround Aguleri, Omasi, Umueje, Igbariam,Achalla, Adazi etc. You know our people just don't like publicity!

this is one of those times a bit of publicity might help them sell more as I don't think many people are aware of it

VickJames:
I got an info from someone and he told me it is very possible. This person is trusted and has his hand on infos in Abia state government. There's a confluence in the east called the blue-river. This confluence river is quite deep and when dredged further, it will be able to accommodate ships. I am not say our governors should do it, if we can do it in partnership with the chinese, I'm telling you, we will go far. Moreover, this confluence river is closer to the sea than the 50 and 45mile cross river and portharcourt seaports.

This is a matter of opening our region and let substantial activity run through it. We will be able to connect major sea-faring countries with this attempt thereby opening more markets for us. This is pure business and empowerment.

you said 'when dredged further'? Isn't that supposed to mean constant dredging would have to be done? Or is it going to be done once? Remember the talk here is ocean liners and not large barges

cjrane:
Vickjames, I ordinarily respect your views. But your arguement here is like educating Saudi Arabia about the disadvantages of having a desert to a fertile rainforest Or telling Germany the importance of oil, knowing they don't have that resource.

To what effect is such arguement if nothing can be done to change it? You can suggest how to encourage friendly alliance to assure Alwa Ibom that we shall use their Ibaka port if they build it. All those lake ideas and Suez Canal are just academic exercise

simple...that is why I have not bothered contributing to the discourse..i mean isn't it obvious that big ocean liners that birth in apapa Lagos can only birth in a deep sea area of which that ibaka or is it ibeno axis csn accommodate? Even ph and warri cant seem to do that because they need to constantly dredged..likewise calabar...obuaku I dare say will probably be for large barges and would probably need constant dredging for ocean liners

investnow2013:
I like opinions & suggestions being shared here by a lot of people! But I will prefer to copy the workable one which is being played out by The Anambra govt & people!. Who would have believed that Cattle for instance can be reared in large farms in Anambra state not by the fulanis but by the hard working Omanbala/ Igbo people!.We tend to believe in the past that cattle farming are exclusive right of the fulanis & that it can not even be done in Alaigbo or by Igbos but that is now changing!.I want to give you another instance, for a good number of years, Bussa in Niger State was supplying most of the fish in most Major Markets in Onitsha & beyond with many trailer loads of fish but now that monopoly have finally being broken by Anambra Huslers & Millions of money retained in Anambra economy.In the process new jobs were created in the State!.we must always remember that we have now the population & relative security that encourages any business to succeed!. We must also know that once there is population, you will
also have the Market!

what are the names of the farms in anambra engaged in cattle farming?

Kcinho:
I think I heard daily sha. This isn't the only house. The other pix have workers faces on them

wow that means the poultry farm is really big then


http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/12/tara-ebony-stoke-rice-revolution-adani-ikwo/

From the story above Tara agro said the rice paddies are not enough to sustain the mill hence paddies from north are brought to Tara agro for mill processing..tara agro was initially located in taraba but had to be relocated to uzo uwani because of security challenges..Tara agro should contact coched rice farms

Kcinho:
poultry..... a worker there said there are projections of about 40,000 eggs when the birds start laying and hatching. can't remember if he meant daily or weekly though.

probably per week

doncaster:
I have a container that was suppose to be cleared from Apapa wharf since last week but as of today my agent has not even started. When I wanted to know why he told me that the custom officers don't want to work as the new custom czar send military man to accompany custom officers during container inspection. As a result of this no container been cleared for the past two week and if this continues my goods will enter demourage by next week. This is extra cost I don't want to incur as the fault is not mine.

I need somebody to confirm this pls.

this sounds funny

MrEverest:
This is despicable and idiotic to say the least, it is obvious that those fools masquerading as market leaders are being instigated by powers behind the scene, that judas called okwudili Ezenwankwo would sell his mother for a pot of porridge. This saboteurs are the ones trying to kill the S.east economy for very selfish reasons but Chukwu Abiama will not let them succeed. I believe there are many educated and enlightened people among the traders so hopefully they would not allow this Judas called Okwudili Ezenwankwo and his fellow selfish and greedy excos who must have collected bribe to disturb public peace over something that would benefit the people of Aba. The government of Abia state must step in now and educate the people of Abia on what they stand to benefit if Geometric is allowed to operate in Aba. It is apparent that Emeka Offor now wants to use these so called market leaders to disrupt the handover of Aba zone to Geometric but he has failed. Aba must develop! South East must develop and Ndi Igbo must take their pride of place!!!

the okwudili guy is obviously being bribed to do this...idiot like him

pazienza:
The period of electricity generation in the East via Coal was the same period of Coal exportation in the East.

It's kind of hard to separate the two.

I am not sure how hard it is to separate the two..that was how it was then does not mean that is how it is supposed to be now..it is like saying if price of crude crashes to an all time low that countries that have crude as their natural resource would no longer refine crude for domestic consumption..
I dont think there is a rule that coal exploration must be or have a percentage for export

Obiagelli:
Pure selfishness, other regions provide the electricity we use today. Why do Africans have this mentality

probably the present structure needs to be fazed out..even the present govt seems to favour what the person you quoted is talking about

pazienza:
I think the problem with Enugu coal deposits is that it's not in enough quantity as to generate real profits via direct raw exporting.

If I am right, Enugu has a proven reserve of 49 million metric tonnes of coal reserves and further unproven 111million reserves.

Well Australia with proven reserve of about 76 billion billion tonnes( Being the 4th in the world) exported 154million tonnes of metallurgical coal in the 2012-2013 financial year and earned 22billion Australia dollars and 182 metric tonnes of thermal coal exports earned her 16 billion USD in the same financial year.

So in total, she exported 336metric tonnes of coal in the 2012-2013 financial year and earned 38billion Australia dollars.

This 336million tonnes is already more than the combined 160 million tonnes of proven and unproven reserves of Enugu.

So, unless we discover other coal reserves in Enugu and Igboland in general, direct export of coal as is done with crude oil will never fetch us enough money in the modern world.

the op is talking about using it for power plants in east not necessarily not for export

pacino26:
Actually it was Shell that has no gas to supply till this very morning.

Back to topic.

Op I've never made any studies into this coal business but from what you posted you're making me understand a mere $1.5mil can make a huge difference. Quite an eye opener. I believe the state will have to look into this.

An off grid license can be granted to companies that wishes to generate power and use it in a particular area. I think I read one publication where LarFarge Group was seeking such.

Op let's talk. ariessino@gmail.com

explain the shell part?

Abagworo:
Only one force will stop him and it is Igbos. If Igbos support Izunaso, Buhari and Okorocha will back him.

let him win uzodinma first in court before anything else..no need build castle in the air

Abagworo:
Court will expose Uzodimma's obvious rigging.

this your theory is far fetched..if eventually uzodinma is thrown out what guarantee that izunaso would become senate president?


By the way it seems Emeka offor is becoming desperate

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/s-east-traders-threaten-to-shut-down-markets-over-proposed-sale-of-aba-power-firm/111490.html

EasternLionn:
which is?

interstate led by offor

bigfrancis21:
Thanks for this. so in effect, the electricity generation sector of Nigeria was actually privatized but the distribution sector still lies under the auspices of the federal government?

distribution is under private companies..however the private discos distribute what they are given

finniblinks:
Nigeria is evil

guy put the blame where the blame is

Just imagine the idiocy of these group of traders..i feel like shooting these fools on the scrotum..idiots

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/s-east-traders-threaten-to-shut-down-markets-over-proposed-sale-of-aba-power-firm/111490.html

The FG should hand over to afrigem let me see them do their worst fools!

I am sure interstate led by offor is the one behind this..of course the traders don't know any better

MrEverest come see nonsense

menabadoo:
fellow easterner or enugu electricity distribution company? Its still some how connected to govt policy.

Even if they decide to generate electricity from the coal mine, distribution will be a very big problem because enugu disco must bring their ugly head before any other body.

bigfrancis21:
What actually happened?

FG in 2005 carved out aba aba and ariaria district under Enugu distribution zone for geometric to build ,generate and distribute electricity within that carved out district...geometric finished building the power plant ready to power around 2 yrs ago..however owner of geometric barth nnaji was also power minister then and had to resign when privatization of discos commenced because a consortium which geometric was part of was bidding for Enugu disco..long and short of it is that he lost the bidding and the bid was won by Emeka offor led interstate for Enugu disco...now instead of interstate to respect the 2005 agreement of the carved out aba ana ariaria zone he sat on that agreement (due to his connection with the then vp sambo who was chairman of power privatization commitee)..nnaji's geometric power lost a lot of money due to lack of servicing of loans used for building the plant since it was not allowed to work..now the vp is no longer on seat due to change in leadership..what happens next? Bpe now realizes that geometric was supposed to power the aba district and now ordered Enugu disco run by interstate to hand over aba district to geometric (now afrigem since afrigem has bought over majority shares in geometric aba to cover for up for lost funds due to defaulting loans)..
Interstate now goes to court to get an injunction stopping the handover...bpe now says it can no longer handover that aba power to geometric/afrigem due to the fact that the case is now in court

http://businessdayonline.com/2015/07/nerc-bpe-validate-rights-of-geometric-over-aba-disco/

http://businessdayonline.com/2015/09/bpe-compels-enugu-disco-to-handover-aba-ring-fence-to-apl/

http://businessdayonline.com/2015/09/bpe-fails-to-hand-over-aba-ring-fence-to-geometric/

menabadoo:
he doesn't know this is why private investors have refused to invest in the electricity industry of nigeria.

When you generate, you channel it to the national grid, you don't have control over distribution. It makes that sector frustrating for private investors, nnaji geometric power project has been frustrated in aba.

Nigeria stinks

it was a fellow easterner that frustrated geometric power in aba