₦airaland Forum

Balkan:
my brother it's not a dream. We have to settle the ukwuani/ ndokwa question soon. It's either you are Igbo or not Igbo. Who is an ukwuani man to talk when an Igbo man is talking. I hope you are not from ukwuani bc I think I buy all your views on NL.

I am not, Ukwuani people can settle their identity issues, but you cannot tell people, regardless of what they call themselves, that you are coming to take over their land. That is simply wrong.

Balkan:
we are not interested in you boy. We are only interested in the land you are occupying. It's not Bini land. You can be anything you chose to be. Ndokwa and ukwuani are Igbo land and we must take it back.

You need to stop dreaming, or whatever you think, you are doing.

For Nigeria’s embattled government, October 20 is a date worth circling on the calendar: That day will mark 42 days since Nigeria’s last confirmed Ebola case, which, at twice the 21-day incubation period, will allow the country to declare itself free of a disease that has ravaged its West African neighbors.

Tuesday, Nigeria reached a milestone it would much rather ignore: Six months ago, militants from the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the country’s Chibok region, and, despite a worldwide campaign to free them, 219 remain in captivity. While the kidnapping has attracted significant publicity—epitomized by the viral #BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter—violence attributed to Boko Haram has killed thousands in Nigeria’s northern provinces.

The contrast between the two anniversaries raises an uncomfortable question: Faced with these two enormous crises, how has Nigeria handled one so well and the other so poorly?

"Ebola impacts everyone. It doesn’t have ties to particular sects or groups."
One major reason is Nigeria’s political geography, which, throughout the country’s post-colonial history, has caused so much turmoil. A country of some 170 million people split into numerous ethnic and linguistic groups, Nigeria has struggled to bridge the gap between its relatively affluent Christian south and its poorer Muslim north.

Boko Haram, whose name roughly means “Western education is a sin,” has exploited this divide. The group largely operates in Nigeria’s three northeastern provinces, all of which are controlled by the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party and where distrust of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government runs high.

“A lot of people in northern Nigeria are, in fact, disgusted with Boko Haram,” Rudy Atallah, a senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and an expert on Nigeria, said. “But because the population of the North has felt neglected by the South for so long, many of them view Boko Haram as an able body fighting against the government.”

By contrast, when Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who tested positive for Ebola, arrived in Lagos, he found himself in a city equipped with West Africa’s most advanced health-care infrastructure as well as the headquarters of many multinational organizations. And, unlike the fight against Boko Haram, combating Ebola transcends ethnic, political, and religious divisions.

“Ebola impacts everyone,” Atallah noted. “It doesn’t have ties to particular sects or groups.”

The next inflection point in Nigerian politics may come next February, when the country chooses its next president. Having served two terms, Jonathan will not be eligible. But a victory by his People’s Democratic Party, which has governed Nigeria for 14 years and whose voter base resides in the south, may exacerbate the already fierce regional divide in the country, as well as make the search for the remaining 219 hostages even more difficult.

theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/why-nigeria-stopped-ebola-but-not-boko-haram/381442

MATT SCHIAVENZA revisit Nigerian civil lesson.

By Festus Ahon, Egufe Yafugborhi & Brisibe Perez
ASABA—Former Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, is unquestionably the most powerful political leader in Delta State.

The only other living politician that would have stopped him in the state is the former governor, Chief James Ibori, but unfortunately, his arrest and incarceration for money laundering abroad, has created the opportunity for Clark, one of his formidable foes, to have a field day.
Political Mecca
Last month, September, Kiagbodo, the home town of Chief Clark in Burutu Local Government Area of the state was turned to a political Mecca as politicians, particularly those seeking elective positions, trooped in large numbers to the elder statesman for consul-tations.
From the former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Mr. Tony Obuh, Obarisi Omo Agege, Mrs Esther Uduehi and so on, there was no day since the 2015 general elections climaxed with the release of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, timetable for primaries that one or two governorship aspirants and aspirants for other elective offices, would not visit Chief Clark to seek for his support and blessings.
In fact, even when some people did not know that the man, who spends most of his time nowadays at Abuja, has returned to the nation’s capital city, some governorship aspirants, including Mr. Andrew Warri, trailed him to Abuja to receive his blessings.
For many politicians in the state, the anointing of Chief E.K Clark is the beginning of victory. Even National and State Assembly aspirants outside Chief Clark’s constituency still visit him to seek for his support. This is a pointer to the fact that the Ijaw leader is undeniably very powerful and influential in the politics of the state.
The search for the most powerful living politician in state expectedly provoked divergent views. Niger Delta Voice spoke to cross sections of Deltans.
Former NUPENG General Secretary, Chief Frank Kokori, said, “No one in Delta state fits this description of being most influential, what we have in government are opportunists.”
Uduaghan, Ibori influence
However, some politicians rate the state governor, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan higher than Chief Clark in terms of political powers and influences. Of course, there is no gain saying that the governor is also very powerful and influential given the fact that he holds the ace in state PDP. But even at that, the governor himself still rallies round Chief Clark for support and blessings in the day to day running of the state.
Despite Ibori’s absence, some persons see the former governor as more powerful and influential than Clark. They hold strongly that Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan and others exercising political influence in the state, except Chief E. K Clark, are all products of Chief Ibori.
According to them, even in his incarceration, politicians were being air lifted to the United Kingdom, week after week to seek, for the blessings and support of Chief James Onanefe Ibori. So one can better imagine how dominant he would have been if he was in the shores of this country.
But Special Adviser on Political Affairs to the Governor, Chief Ighoyota Amori, asserted ,”The governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan is the most influential politician in the state because he is the head of the government of the state. Whoever is a politician comes under his leadership.
“There is no way anyone can be more influential than him coupled with the fact that he influences political decisions in the state. The next person is Chief Edwin Clark, who has a national reach in terms of politics.”
For the former member representing Ethiope Consti-tuency in the House of Representatives, Hon Solomon Edoja, “Politics is all about governance and the governor, Dr. Uduaghan, being the number one citizen and head of state is the most influential because he influences all the decisions in the executive and legislature through the State House of Assembly.
“Personally, I think the governor fits this position as the most influential.”

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/clark-political-vip-delta/#sthash.uoKXQ32O.dpuf

emmatok:
LoL, coming from one whose believe on Nigeria is tied to his brothers been in power.
Why don't you do a simple google search on Nigerias money laundry activities on SA.

I asked you to study, the definition of money laundry, tell us what you learnt.

emmatok:
Why not you deport people who don't believe in your GEJ to SA.
Its your government that are laundering our money in SA and not the other way round.

You are free to deport yourself. Your kinds are not needed in this country, start by learning the meaning of money laundering.

The only difference between Kashamu and Tinubu, is one did not hire the right lawyers to negotiate a better plead deal. They are both drug dealers.

emmatok:
[s]You're a shame to this country, all your patriotic noise making is because GEJ is in power.
Do you know the diplomatic embarrassments this events is giving Nigerians.
I am sure you will be happy if Nigerians get such treatment from SA,Ghana or US.

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Becuase GEJ is president What will my OBJ haters say then? Don't call yourself a Nigerian, because you are not fit to be one. Be a Southafrican or whatever you want to be.

gebest:
very correct sir, at least we are above 2m bpd.

The average production is about 1.8M.

gebest:
point of correction, it is 2.4million bpd.

Not correct.

pmc01:
Very good one. Inspires more confidence and believe in our dear country.

Unfortunately, the OP can't help trying to take the shine away from this piece with his TAN propangada-like "GEJ forever" mentality. Can't you simply be a Nigerian before been a GEJite?

#feeling hopeful#irritated#mixed feelings

Not possible, give GEJ his needed credit.

Can I say it now GEJ till 2019

Steel-pipe manufacturing in Nigeria is set to expand on the back of a law that reserves supplies to the energy industry for local companies, the implementing agency said.

The 2010 Nigerian Content Act requires international energy companies working in the nation’s oil and gas industry to end imports of pipes and buy instead from local companies to meet annual demand of 800,000 metric tons a year. Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Chevron Corp. (CVX), Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Total SA (FP) and Eni SpA (ENI) run joint ventures with state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. that pump most of the country’s oil.

“We’d like to see four to five pipe mills in the country” with demand for steel pipes increasing as the country builds new gas-pipe networks and replaces old ones, Ernest Nwapa, executive secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, or NCDMB, said in an Oct. 5 interview in the commercial capital, Lagos. “Investors in pipe mills must be seeing these opportunities.”

Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy and oil producer and has the continent’s largest gas reserves. Under a plan to use natural gas to meet its electricity needs, the government is expanding the country’s pipeline network to reach far-flung power stations. Since the law came into force four years ago, the NCDMB has been working out terms of engagement with prospective investors in mills.

‘The Lifeblood’

Among the early investors in domestic steel-pipe production is Lagos-based Technova Africa Group Ltd., which is building a $200 million mill and coating facility to be completed in September next year in southern Edo state, according to Chief Executive Officer Norbert Oleah.

“The lifeblood of the oil industry is pipes,” Oleah said in a Sept. 23 interview. “As important as the oil well is, that’s how important the pipe is.”

Technova is in talks with international banks and hedge funds to raise additional capital either through debt or equity, and expects to reach a financing agreement before the end of the year, according to Oleah. He envisages a $1.2 billion investment over 10 years, including a fabrication yard, a jetty and a 10-megawatt power plant.

Technova has formed a technical partnership with Indian steel-pipe maker PSL Ltd. (PSL) and is negotiating with the world’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal (MT) for the supply of raw materials, according to Oleah.

Output Capacity

Nigeria’s steel-pipe output capacity will reach 300,000 tons a year when Technova’s 200,000-ton capacity facility starts production and adds to the 100,000 tons currently produced by the country’s only existing mill run by Abuja-based SCC Ltd. The existing gaps are met through imports. The NCDMB is discussing plans with investors to set up a 250,000 ton per year pipe mill in southern Bayelsa state to further boost self-sufficiency, according to Nwapa.

“There are about 50 suppliers bringing pipes from all over the world into Nigeria and they’ve been doing it in the most unfair manner,” he said “For 50 years they’ve just been dumping their pipes here.”

The leading suppliers of steel pipes to Nigeria include Luxembourg’s Tenaris SA (TS), Moscow-based TMK OAO (TMKS) and China’s Tianjin Pipe Corp. Nigeria now wants them to “set up some manufacturing facilities here” by forming partnerships with Nigerian companies, Nwapa said.

Fledgling Industry

“The local pipe industry is still fledgling, it’s something we’re trying to generate growth in,” he said. “If we continue to import everything like we are doing, we can’t get a place for people to work.”

When the government started discussing getting more indigenous companies into oil and gas, they were looking at areas such as pipemilling, where local operators could quickly come in with a limited amount of capital, Dolapo Oni, Lagos-based head of energy research at Ecobank Research, said by phone on Sept. 30.

“The sector didn’t take up as fast as they thought it would because of issues of quality,” Oni said. “One model that has emerged is to get the oil companies to essentially dictate the specifications they want and also control the production.”

The NCDMB is creating a fund, which currently stands at more than $300 million, to kickstart investments, Nwapa said. The fund collects 1 percent of all contracts awarded in the exploration and production sector of the oil and gas industry. Most of the money will go toward guaranteeing bank loans in the industry that banks are still reluctant to lend to, Nwapa said. The remainder is for infrastructure developments that will lure more investments.

“We want to bring manufacturing to the grassroots,” said Nwapa, whose board is working to develop oil and gas parks that will provide services to operators in three oil-producing states, requiring a basic investment of about $10 million each. “We believe the parks will stimulate interest among the operators and big services companies and they will begin to take stakes in those places.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Yinka Ibukun in Lagos at yibukun@bloomberg.net

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-13/nigeria-law-may-usher-in-billion-dollar-steel-business-1-.html

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DALLAS — A nurse here became the first person to contract Ebola within the United States, prompting local, state and federal officials who had settled into a choreographed response to scramble on Sunday to solve the mystery of how she became infected, despite wearing protective gear, and to monitor additional people possibly at risk.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/us/texas-health-worker-tests-positive-for-ebola.html

MeAboki:
As many as you ppl are producing from your baby factories - I hear there is vacancy waiting for you as chief Impregnator.

The baby factory don't produce mass murderers, like your families produce almajiris.

emmatok:
The comments I am reading here is so embarrassing and shameful.
Foreigners died in your country, instead of apologies from Nigeria, they are getting insulted by Nigerians.
When did we Nigerians sunk this low?

What are you ashamed of? Some of you people need to stop calling yourself Nigerians. You are worse than the enemies of this country.

londoner:
Well, this article if from January 2014. Apparently, Michelin and DN tyres (fomally Dunlop) are in consultation to restart their manufacturing activities in Nigeria. If the Nigerian government addresses the issues which lead to the relocation in the first place (which they are doing), it will spur off a reinvestment, or new investments, which it has done so far.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/nigeria-auto-policy-attracting-attention-auto-makers-nac-dg/

Correct, the provision of gas, mainly to the Agbara/sango otta axis, changed the cost component of many manufacturers. Getting gas to industrial estate has made the lack of PHCN power a non issue for many companies. They just build their own mini power plants.

londoner:
Even if they relocate, they will have to pay a fee to import into Nigeria (either way we will gain), it may even make it more expensive to operate outside Nigeria.
Comments to the article were dated in 2012, but I don't know when it was written. It was before all the government investments in infrastructure, changes in law and investment. From 2014 onwards, it will not be businss as usual for companies importing goods to Nigeria.

It looks like a story from 2005 or 2009. The changes in the Nigerian manufacturing sector in the last 3 years are breath taken.

GHKWAME1:
Why not use the internet? Africa in not included in "the right to be forgotten" you know.

Like I said, I spoke to a friend and technically Nigerian fears remain the same. He said, most of these products are not manufactured in Ghana and Ghana is just a landing spot for transit to Nigeria. I also found this news link from 10 years ago.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?

Nigeria to lift ban on Ghanaian goods.

THE Nigerian government?s ban on over one hundred Ghanaian products may finally be lifted, following a request by the Nigerian authorities for a list of Ghanaian products wishing to access the country?s market.

The move follows a successful agreement last month between the governments of Ghana and Nigeria, concerning the latter?s outlaw of 96 Ghanaian products from its market earlier this year. A large number of Ghanaian industries have been affected by the ban, which applied to all Ghanaian exports to Nigeria except salt.

The ban came despite the existence of the ECOWAS protocol on free movement of goods and services in the region which should guarantee against such measures. Under the Trade Liberalisation Treaty, member countries are free to export and import items into the other country, devoid of quotas or any forms of restrictions.

The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is the umbrella body for Ghanaian businesses, has accordingly been charged by the Trade and Industry Ministry to compile the list of Ghanaian manufacturers for onward submission to the Nigerian authorities for action, by the end of this week. Checks by The Statesman at the Chamber on Friday revealed that officials have already put together the first list of fifteen companies and their products to be submitted to the Government by the deadline.

The first list of companies include Phyto-Ricker Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of pharmaceutical products; Duraplast, Interplast, and EPPL, all plastic manufacturing companies; Azar Chemicals, manufacturers of Azar paints; Getrade Wire and Wire Weaving Limited, all wire weaving companies.

Emmanuel Doni-Kwame, Head of Marketing, Trade and Investment Promotions at the Chamber, told The Statesman that the Nigerian authorities, led by Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iwaela, are now keen to issue a waiver on the products once their conditions are met.

Industry analysts, including some members of the Chamber of Commerce, said it was the contention of the Nigerian authorities that Ghana has ?over-liberalised its markets, making it a fertile dumping ground for cheap imports from Europe and Asia?.

Speaking to The Statesman on condition of anonymity, they said it was the belief of the Nigerian authorities that Ghana attracts cheap imports from Asia because it is seen as an easy gateway, with Nigeria being the final destination for these cheap products. They said that Nigeria would want Ghana to enforce tighter control over its market to prevent an influx of cheap products swamping its domestic market.

Kwasi Abeasi, Chief Executive of the African Business Roundtable, told The Statesman that Nigeria could afford to show such adamancy on this issue because the country does not subscribe to the World Bank, which gives it greater flexibility to determine which products enter its market. Ghana, on the other hand, is less free to exercise such discretion because of the checks placed on it by the Bretton Woods Institutions.

Mr Abeasi assured The Statesman that he is taking the issue up with President Obasanjo of Nigeria, and that he will be supported in this by the Chairman of the NEPAD Business Group, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who is also a member of the Nigerian Business Advisory Council.

Last month, Private Sector Development Minister Kwabena Bartels rejected calls for retaliation to the ban, saying that Ghana is not ready for a trade war. Now, there are high hopes of reconciliation and a lift of the boycott. Meanwhile in another development, Nigeria has also introduced a new tariff structure with effect from October 1, as it begins the implementation of the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET).

The new scheme reduces from 30 to 20 percent the tariff on imported second-hand cars, but approves a special trade tariff on rice and cigarette, at 100 and 150 percent respectively, instead of 50 percent under CET.

CET seeks to harmonise the tariff regime of all ECOWAS countries for a sub-regional tariff structure. It is designed to boost the market for goods and services in the sub-region, integrate trade, and maximise opportunities for business towards the creation of an economic union for West Africa.

CrudeGH:
I guess it is only in nigeria that the cost of producing power by generators is said to be cheaper than what is produced by the national grid. It does not make sense. and I don't belive it when you said power produced by generators are cheaper. can you prove it? and I saw this article on the net a few minutes ago

Why companies will continue to leave Nigeria for Ghana

That many companies have divested in Nigerian economy is no longer news. The disturbing issues are will Nigeria ever absorb the shock of this companies exodus? Are there any deliberate efforts towards making the companies come back?

For the most part of the last 10 years of Nigeria’s democracy, there has been near collapse of infrastructure. The development has been so bad that most businesses groan under intense pain due to overhead cost incurred in providing alternative infrastructure like power. In fact, power has become an albatross to the nation’s manufacturing sector.

For instance, in 1999, manufacturing sector accounted for not less than five percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This shrunk to 4.9 percent in 2000.

As a result of high cost of production that results from inadequate infrastructure, the manufacturing capacity utilization remains on the down side.

The manufacturing sector is further bogged down by massive decline in capacity utilisation resulting from high exchange rate of the Naira and congestion at the ports. Prior to the financial meltdown, the manufacturing sector had not fared better largely due to lack of infrastructure and high production cost.

President of the National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Simon Okolo said there has not been significant improvement in infrastructure.

According to him, industrial/commercial centres continued to witness heavy traffic, thereby constituting undesirable delays to motorists and other road users while the rail and mass transit schemes did not receive the desired boost necessary to transform the transport sector.

Owing to these, the domestic economy witnessed an unprecedented closure of factories and production plants last year.

Indeed, it was a confirmation that the nation’s domestic economy was sinking. With the weakening economy, more sectors were being affected by the recession and the unemployment profile kept rising.

The president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Alhaji Bashir Borodo disclosed to Sunday Trust that absence of conducive manufacturing environment and basic infrastructure would continue to draw back the sector, except something urgent was done to reverse the situation.

According to him, the dream of Nigeria being an exporter of manufactured goods would remain a mirage since Nigeria had thrown away agriculture and blindly embraced oil export.

The recent decision of some companies that had bases in Nigeria to relocate to Ghana was another confirmation that the nation’s industrial sector was still held in hostage.

Last year, Dunlop Nigeria Plc., the only surviving tyre manufacturing company in Nigeria then, shut down its plants and laid off hundreds of its workers and put some on half pay.



Dunlop Nigeria Plc and Michelin had relocated to Ghana. Patterson Zochonis (PZ) is also planning to relocate to Ghana, even as Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Unilever and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) this year, sacked sizeable number of their workers over reported high cost of production, decaying infrastructure as well as the ravaging global economic recession.



Unconfirmed sources also said Guinness Plc was already putting spanners into works to move its business to Ghana, while some companies were said to have expressed readiness to move.



However, External Relations Manager of Dunlop, Sola Adebanjo said his company did not relocate to Ghana. He said the rumoured relocation of the tyre company stemmed from its drive to establish sister branch in the Gold Coast.



He told SundayTrust that the Dunlop version of Nigeria was still intact and operational.But not many Nigerians would buy Adebanjo’s position.



Recently, members of the Lagos State House of Assembly expressed concern over the relocation of manufacturing companies.



This was brought to the attention of the House under Matters of Urgent Public Importance by Sanai Agunbiade, chairman, House Committee on Commerce and Industry.



Agunbiade said manufacturing companies in Nigeria were already folding up, to relocate to Ghana and take advantage of the liberal investment incentives there.



According to him, the implication for the state was high unemployment rate and increase in criminal activities.



While attributing the development to constant power outage, he added that “manufacturers in Nigeria were crying over the power situation in the country which is the real bane of the manufacturing sector.



“I think Lagos State Government should call on the federal government to allow us implement the Independent Power Project (IPP) and distribute power to industrial areas, because Lagos would be most affected by this movement of industries to Ghana.”



Contributing to the debate, Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Adeola Olamilekan said it was high time the federal government decentralised Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), because huge funds injected into the body had not yielded desired impact.



The president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Peter Esiele lamented that the relocation of companies to Ghana was a sad situation that would forever impinge on the nation’s development.



He said the relocation was a manifestation that government had no concrete plans to develop infrastructure with a view to bringing more investments into the country.



He said the business environ-ment in the country was in disarray in the sense that many businesses groaned under intense pain to survive.




According to him, it was only companies that had thrown ethics to the dogs that survived “the harsh business environment”. He said it was amazing that the government that had not deemed it fit to put infrastructure in order imposed heavy taxes on businesses.




The Director General of Nigeria Textile Manufacturers Association, Jaiyeola Peters said the Ghana government’s plan to give the relocating companies 15-year tax holidays was a manifestation that the government had created an enabling environment to receive them.




A manufacturer, Ligali Mohammed lamented that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry had done little or nothing to boost investment drive in the country. ‘’Obviously, infrastructure is zero-some here and hope of reviving same is just not there. The minister keeps promising that infrastructure would be fixed, bail-out funds would be provided to ailing industries like the textiles, but where are the infrastructure and the bail-out funds?




‘’So, if manufacturing companies decide to go to Ghana, no one should apportion blame on them, for they are in business to make profit. And they are entitled to do their business where they consider safe.”




According to Ligali, government had lost its grip on all sectors wondering how government would achieve the so-called vision 2020.




Painting the sordid picture of power in Lagos recently, the chairman of Ikeja Branch of the MAN, Mr Godwin Oteri said, “Private power generation accounted for 30percent of the cost of production and the inadequacy of supply is majorly responsible for 25.24 percent average capacity utilization.” Today, the power situation in the country has further plummeted.


The country’s quest to hit the 6000MW by the end of the year remains a super-miracle to those in the know.




The current situation should therefore, be a litmus test for the federal government. Government needs to evolve economic agenda that would boost the investment climate of the country.




The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi had already offered a way out of the nation’s economic doldrums by advising government to concentrate only on revitalization of the power sector instead of the bogus seven-point agenda.




Whether government would listen to Sanusi’s sermon is a matter many are still waiting to see.




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Please, when was this story written? This sounds more like a 5-10 years old article.

The army finally turned its eyes in the right direction. This is now a game changer, for now and the future.

Nigeria and South Africa have no relationship. See it as a relationship gone sour, you breakup and both parties move on. The amount of time and energy invested in South africa is not worth it.

By Kingsley Omonobi
ABUJA—Military authorities prosecuting the war against terrorism in the North East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe have arrested several soldiers, who were discovered to have leaked vital security information on the troops’ strategies and tactics to Boko Haram that led to a series of ambush and killing of over 30 Nigerian soldiers in recent times.
army

Most of the arrested soldiers serve as orderlies or aide-de-camps, ADCs to Commanders of Troops on the field.
It was gathered that the alleged moles among the soldiers leaked the information on the deployment of soldiers from Maimalari Barracks in April this year to the terrorists which led to an ambush and killing of so many soldiers of the 101 Battalion that consequently led to soldiers’ mutiny and the shooting at the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Major General Ahmed Mohammed. His armoured official car saved his life.

Vanguard further gathered that the activities of these moles may have been responsible for the recent shooting of the Nigerian Airforce Alpha Jet on September 12 which took off from Yola airport and was reported missing until Boko Haram terrorists said they shot it down and killed one of its pilot, which was confirmed by the Facebook account of friends of the military.
Speaking under condition of anonymity, a reliable source said Commanders on the field had for long wondered how information on strategies for deployment, type of weaponry and fall back tactics easily filtered out to the terrorists to the extent that soldiers’ movement, timing of deployment, and routes to take, became known to Boko Haram insurgents.

“The situation became so bad that there was mutual suspicion among fellow commanders, the Brigade headquarters and even the Division headquarters. But at last, the moles were found out to be some of the orderlies and aides of Commanders. What they do is that after operational briefings and troops take off, these moles immediately pass on the information through calls.”
Asked why it was difficult to discover the traitors before now, the source said, “Who will suspect that an orderly or the ADC of a Commander will be the one giving out information. He does everything for the Commander and he is with him all the time. He is the last person that would be suspected. But thank God, they have been exposed; the truth is now known”.
Already, the source noted that a Board of Inquiry (BOI) has been set up to carry out further investigations into the activities of the traitors and to try to find out if there were fellow fifth columnists still existing among the troops, after which a General Court Martial will be constituted to try the soldiers for Criminal Conspiracy among others.
Also, Vanguard was told at the weekend that six officers taking part in the offensive to flush out the terrorists from the Adamawa axis recently shot themselves in parts of their bodies that were not life threatening with a view to escape being drafted to the battle field to confront Boko Haram terrorists.

After allegedly shooting themselves in the arm, hip, foot and making sure that the bullets did not affect any bones in these parts of their bodies, the officers ran to a military hospital and claimed that they were shot by terrorists.
Medical experts attached to the hospital in Vintim, after carrying out several checks and x-rays on the gunshot wounds, discovered that the officers had ‘clean gunshot wounds’ which meant the injuries were 99% self inflicted.
Vanguard gathered that the Army High Command ordered that further medical tests be carried out to be doubly sure and that the x-rays were sent to Abuja where experts did further analysis and came out with the same results of ‘Clean Gunshot Wounds’ .
“In one instance, an officer expertly shot at his arm from the front and the bullet came out from the back without touching any bone neither did it destroy any artery that would endanger the treatment of the hand. In another instance, an officer just opened fire on his foot but made sure no toe or dangerous part of the foot was affected,” a source said.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/military-arrests-soldiers-moles-boko-haram/#comment-1633015114

MeAboki:
See what gibberish you just typed - educated illiterate.

BTW, almajiri means: scholar or pupil (so there is nothing derogatory about it; except to you olodos) - and by all indications, you could really do with a little more schooling, why not try night class for a start; maybe you could even earn your family a much needed 2nd certificate.

Alamjiris means mass a murdering tool, called upon when non moslem need to be slaughtered. Usually walking around with a bowl used for begging food. How many millions of those do you have again?

JiggamanGh:
Aviation also

http://nigerianewsday.com/business/2300-nigeria-bullies-ghana-in-aviation-market

Based on personal experience, I know africaworld airlines flies twice a week to Lagos from Accra.

GHKWAME1:
Google is not synonym for research, but in this case it will hasten your search. Enjoy!

I will talk to a good friend with Nigerian customs. Actually based at the Seme border post.

GHKWAME1:
The list of companies include Phyto-Ricker
Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of
pharmaceutical products; Duraplast, Interplast,
and EPPL, all plastic manufacturing companies;
Azar Chemicals, manufacturers of Azar paints;
Getrade Wire and Wire Weaving Limited, all wire
weaving companies.

I will do some checking on this, this is news to me. Basically, Nigeria prohibited, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, plastics and cable wires. If this is correct, then the president of Ghana has a point.

DONGOYARO1:
Is this the best response you can come up with?

I assume you are a NigerDeltan going by your posts and i threw a question at you but you decided to prevaricate.

Oil spillage, water pollution and land degradation is still endemic in the NigerDelta creeks what has Jonathan done to ameliorate this ugly situation?

Jonathan careless about the NigerDelta people, he'l rather give out Oil blocks to Babangida, Modu Sheriff, Danjuma and other Northern PDP stalwarts who are his friends than attend to the needs of his own people

Jonathan care less about the NigerDelta. Jonathan careless about Nigeria

Good night, remember, it is GEJ till 2019.

CrudeGH:
this old excuse is no longer tenable. the truth of the matter is that the cost of production is far higher in nigeria than in the rest of west africa. how can you be competitive when you produce with generators? that is the real problem nigeria does not want to allow west african goods into its territory. the manufacturers association of nigeria has made that point several times

The cost of using generators by manufacturers in Nigeria is actually cheaper than public power. There is a reason the Nigerian's manufacturing sector produces almost 15,000 megawatts of power. The cost of production is not higher in Nigeria.

http://www.ventures-africa.com/2014/04/dangote-others-generate-15000mw-of-electricity-from-private-plants/

VENTURES AFRICA – BUA Group, Honeywell and Dangote Group in conjunction with similar manufacturing plants across Nigeria are generating more than 15,000 megawatts of electricity used by the companies off the national grid, Dr. Lazarus Angbazo, President and CEO of General Electric (GE) Nigeria disclosed at the weekend.

According to him, the captive power of 15,000mw is sufficient for the private companies to operate.

“When I say they are captive, I am talking about consumer industrial groups that are self-generating, like the Dangote Cement, Bua Cement, Lafarge Cement and others,” explained Angbazo.

He said due to inefficient power supply, these groups are constructing private power plants to ensure their operations are not affected by epileptic supply of electricity in the country.

GHKWAME1:
Not true, under kufuor you banned nenety one products from entering Nigeria, this was way before the current EU debacle.

Can you give us some examples of the 91 items?

baccaspace:
I used to exchange words with you but I realise that its uncalled for. I gain nothing by arguing with a skunk head. I have to tolerate you as commonsense i§ your major defect.

#friends?

Talk to your mama, it will make your miserable life, a bit better.