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Macelliot:
Greedy? That's better..
Fulani herdsmen comes to mind...

Stop being lazy. Stop depending on oil...
You guys are killing yourself in your own region because of oil...
GREEDY MILITANTS.

Let me give one rule on this forum, don't insult people's tribe because of fraudulent monikers. When you meet an Urhobo man/woman on streets of delta state or Nigeria vent your insults. Take whatever you get from them.

Greedy Militants what a hell does that mean.

This thread is still running, By the way, I hope to see you all at meeting taking place tomorrow in Orerokpe.

One by one this pretenders will go back to their vomit

Oga Jonathan, how is your Saturday going. Hopefully, you intend to do some fishing. Kai, see peace of mind.

Interesting thread, change has come to Nigeria, unfortunately it was not the change the other side expected. If this generation of SS youths and middle aged men fail, then we deserve to die in this hell called Nigeria

lafex:
Grow up and learn

You need that more than I will ever do.

lafex:
there is no insult from what I have said so far nut just to tell you the reality of life.
Life is all about risk

Risk of life like i said, have a nice day. You will do yourself a favour by piping down on your expertise of life.

lafex:
Are u still a student? Because u sound as a person that neither work for someone nor oneself that is why I call u a learner.
Weither u are working for someone or not when u are not owed, then u are a learner in life and who doesn't want to lose will never gain.
Take care

You think too much of yourself, NEVER insult people in a faceless forum, believing you know too much. Have a nice day.

yang:
And you just re-elected the supposed man who was owing you salary 6 months before the election. what were you thinking?, [b]APC will go Abuja and re-direct the National Treasury to APC controlled states in the North and South-west? [/b]keep promoting illiteracy and mediocrity. You want your children to go to school and then you turn around to elect an illiterate without WAEC certificate as President. . . common WAEC

That was the mindset of millions. How well educated people suspend their thought process in Nigeria is disheartening. Buhari is now President, suddenly all Nigeria trillions will be spent in their villages, that was the level of ignorance.

lafex:
then you are still a learner

Agreed, I have always been a learner, better than a money loser.

lafex:
if you are owed after working for one or two months then you will know what it takes for them to be complaining

I will not be owed by anybody in this country, sorry, I don't operate that way.

Nigerians believe too many fairy tales, a little due diligence will go a long way. Nairaland business/agric/auto forums work great, you just have to separate petty thieves from real business opportunities.

As much as blaming politician for not paying civil servants is fair, how many Osun indigene work for government? Let this cry of hunger stop. People should themselves for not feeding themselves.

Before 1996, Ethiopia was divided into thirteen provinces, many derived from historical regions. The nation now has a tiered governmental system consisting of a federal government overseeing ethnically based regional states, zones, districts (woreda) and neighborhoods (kebele).

Since 1996, Ethiopia has been divided into nine ethnically based and politically autonomous regional states (kililoch, singular kilil) and two chartered cities (astedader akababiwoch, singular astedader akababi), the latter being Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The kililoch are subdivided into sixty-eight zones, and then further into 550 woredas and several special woredas.

The constitution assigns extensive power to regional states, which can establish their own government and democracy according to the federal government's constitution. Each region has at its apex a regional council where members are directly elected to represent the districts and the council has legislative and executive power to direct internal affairs of the regions.

Article 39 of the Ethiopian Constitution further gives every regional state the right to secede from Ethiopia. There is debate, however, as to how much of the power guaranteed in the constitution is actually given to the states. The councils implement their mandate through an executive committee and regional sectoral bureaus. Such elaborate structure of council, executive, and sectoral public institutions is replicated to the next level (woreda).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia

NgeneUkwenu:
Idiotuu! Face your shame here!

transgender alamajiri do you even know what shame is? Are your panties on backwards, with your balls hanging to the corner?.

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NgeneUkwenu:
! We told the Protection Seeker and his TANIOD Friends that Wike CAN NEVER Dissolve the newly elected LG government chairmen without going through the court, but they didn't listen! They were full emotion, resentments and unnecessarily boastful of their idiocies!

Now the question is: Has Wike coughed?





Mumu! They are still in the office




Ode! His first action was taking photographers around government house




Oponu: they are already 11 days in the office!



Protection seeker, days have rolled into weeks! Your Neva cough



Idiotuu! Two Mondays have almost past!

Ndi Ara!

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Transgender Alamjiri, are your panties missing

_Preamble
We, the Nations, Nationalities and Peoples of Ethiopia:
Strongly committed, in full and free exercise of our right to self-determination, to building a political community founded on the rule of law and capable of ensuring a lasting peace, guaranteeing a democratic order, and advancing our economic and social development;
Firmly convinced that the fulfillment of this objective requires full respect of individual and people's fundamental freedoms and rights, to live together on the basis of equality and without any sexual, religious or cultural discrimination;
Further convinced that by continuing to live with our rich and proud cultural legacies in territories we have long inhabited, have, through continuous interaction on various levels and forms of life, built up common interest and have also contributed to the emergence of a common outlook;
Fully cognizant that our common destiny can best be served by rectifying historically unjust relationships and by further promoting our shared interests;
Convinced that to live as one economic community is necessary in order to create sustainable and mutually supportive conditions for ensuring respect for our rights and freedoms and for the collective promotion of our interests;
Determined to consolidate, as a lasting legacy, the peace and the prospect of a democratic order which our struggles and sacrifices have brought about;
Have therefore adopted, on 8 December 1994 this constitution through representatives we have duly elected for this purpose as an instrument that binds us in a mutual commitment to fulfill the objectives and the principles set forth above.



VERY INTERESTING

How many barrels of oil per day does Ethiopia export?

Between America and China, who are their allies.

Stupid Nigerians.

TonySpike:
Smell the coffee, bro. The World Economic Forum report being referred to is that of the 2014 edition. Whose government was in power then? You guys are just impossible!

I thought the buzz is about the upcoming WEF in South Africa.

Africa has a hot new investment destination and it’s not Nigeria.

The buzz at the World Economic Forum on Africa, an annual summit of the continent’s rich and powerful, is all about Ethiopia, where the economy is flourishing and the government is embracing select foreign capital. Executives from General Electric Co., Dow Chemical Co., Standard Bank Group Ltd. and MasterCard Inc. attending the June 3-5 gathering in Cape Town all singled out the East African nation as a market with strong potential.

Ethiopia was Africa’s eighth-largest recipient of foreign direct investment last year, up from 14th position in 2013, a report released by accounting firm EY on June 2 showed. The number of projects in Ethiopia surged 88 percent, the most of all countries ranked, while those in Nigeria slumped 17 percent.

“It’s got a government that is managing economic development in a very deliberate, cautious manner,” Ross McLean, Dow’s president for sub-Saharan Africa, said in an interview on Thursday. “It’s the second-most populous country in Africa. It hasn’t urbanized like other African countries, but it’s going to. It’s a very exciting place.”

Ethiopia’s economy is expected to expand 8.6 percent this year and 8.5 percent in 2016, compared with 10.3 percent growth last year, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook released on April 14. Nigeria, which has Africa’s largest economy and is grappling with energy shortages and the fallout of an oil price slump, is forecast to grow 4.8 percent this year and 5 percent next year.
Construction Boom

Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, shows all the signs of a construction boom. Private developers are erecting scores of office blocks and luxury housing estates, while the government is clearing slums to build low-cost apartments. Radisson Hotels International Inc. and Marriott International Inc. are among global chains that have opened hotels to cater for an influx of business travelers.

A Chinese-built railway line that snakes alongside the capital’s main roads is part of a nationwide infrastructure development program that’s helping entice investors. In April, Chinese company Huajian Group began work on a $400 million shoe-manufacturing park on Addis Ababa’s southwestern outskirts, while companies including Taiwan’s George Shoe Corp. have opened plants in an industrial zone in the Bole Lemi district.
On Thursday, Dangote Group, the Nigerian company controlled by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, said it will spend $500 million expanding its cement plant in Ethiopia, adding to $600 million already invested.

Credit Rating
“We will leave no stone unturned to make this country a suitable destination for foreign investment,” Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said at the opening of the plant at Mugher, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Addis Ababa.
The country was assigned its first credit ratings in May. Moody’s Investors Service rates it a non-investment grade B1 with a stable outlook, while Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings awarded the country a B, one grade lower.
Yields on the nation’s debut $1 billion Eurobond have climbed to 6.77 percent from 6.625 percent when they were sold on December 4.
Business Obstacles
“We’ve done quite a lot of Ethiopian business,” said David Munro, head of corporate and investment banking in Standard Bank, which has applied for a license for a representative office. “We see it as a prospective place to grow our business. There’s the possibility of significant resources and it’s within an economically significant zone, the east African trade area.”

Obstacles to doing business in Ethiopia remain. The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front has ruled the country for the past two decades and the state continues to dominate the financial services, telecommunications and transport industries. Foreign exchange is in short supply, because the government uses inflows to finance its infrastructure program and exports remain meager.
Razia Khan, Standard Chartered Plc’s head of Africa macroeconomic research, said Ethiopia’s economy has a “hollow” structure because it doesn’t have a big enough middle class to enhance economic growth.

Poverty Data
Only 18 percent of Ethiopia’s 94.1 million people are urbanized and the economy is worth just $48.9 billion, according to the Abidjan, Ivory Coast-based African Development Bank. About 30 percent of the population live in poverty, according to 2010 data from the World Bank, down from 46 percent in 1995.

Pan-African lender Ecobank Transnational Inc. has a representative office in Ethiopia. Equity Group Holdings Ltd., owner of Kenya’s second-biggest bank, will prioritize its Ethiopian business as part of an expansion into nine other African nations, Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi said in an interview in Cape Town.
Dow doubled its sales in Ethiopia last year and sees more growth to come.
“There are some significant challenges,” said McLean. “We manage them. We think we are in at the right time.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-05/ethiopia-s-hot-nigeria-s-not-for-investors-targeting-africa

another joke is about to be unveiled.

Goodboiyy:
.lol... fool... keep deceivin urself,, and I will keep exposing ur stupid activity's on NL if u like vex, who nor knw u, right from wen I was a guest on this forum av been reading ur comments, u just 1 big fool, like av said b4 u don't av any blood of urhobo in u.. u dont think, act as 1. ,,

av been expecting u to call me imposter... ediot
... stay off my mentions

I repeat you are a known commodity, oya create a new moniker, this one has failed. This one from May 21st has now run the course. Remember you can also, claim ijaw, Isoko, Ika and probably kwale.

I will enjoy doing the needful to you. Ask your master Olandoowoh.

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Goodboiyy:
lol afraid of knowing d truth ?

lolz, sorry 4 quoting imposter detector,

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You will soon create another moniker, after you delete this one. You are not the first on this forum, I like the torment you people go through, trying so hard to pretend The good news, is there're less of you people than before.

You are a known commodity.

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Goodboiyy:
lolz,, as usual, so won't b bother, am nw 10,000 moniker u av tag imposter, lolz. , just because I fall ur hand 4 1 thread, try harder kid

Sorry 4 Quoting imposter Detector 1 of urhobo land, Omotete me di guor or', u gat no link of urhobo blood in u I swear, BT I hate calling people imposter, if not I 4 call u imposter, BT since this kid say him b urhobo I just 1 agree 4 d now, d urhobo u re always shouting every time on NL am half urhobo, and u ain't part of d urhobos, care to know " Meh okhwo isobo" half iskeri half urhobo. so believe me u gat no blood of urhobo in u, ask ur mom well, maybe she knows d truth..

EDIOT,

Asapppp
God bless Nigeria

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Goodboiyy:
yea,,, correct, I hope APc work, cous If dey don't, I ain't voting em 2019,, jst wish jona was in another party PDP was too corrupt 4 GEJ, we voted PDP out not GEJ, I hope I won't regret my actions

God bless Nigeria
#God bless my Good people of SS

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Impostor don't quote me.

Buhari and his alamjiris will not claim what's not theirs.



Why Agriculture Is Nigeria's New Oil
http://www.forbes.com/sites/skollworldforum/2013/10/10/why-agriculture-is-nigerias-new-oil/

In the lead up to the 2013 Borlaug Dialogue, the Skoll World Forum is featuring several keynote speakers writing at the nexus of three subjects central to the global challenges we face in the 21st century: biotechnology, sustainability, and climate volatility. The 2013 Borlaug Dialogue takes place October 16-18 in Des Moines, Iowa. View the full series here.

As Nigeria’s Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina is championing agricultural investments in one of Africa’s fastest growing economies through bold policy reforms

[b]Much is said about a rising Africa on the global economic stage. To be sure, there is a new energy and dynamism across the continent. It can be seen in an emerging middle class, improved governance, and a heightened interest by foreign investors. But amidst this excitement, there remains a disturbing paradox. Africa is a continent with enormous potential for agricultural growth, yet one where food insecurity and malnutrition are widespread and persistent.

Agriculture is fundamental to every country’s prosperity, security and sovereignty. In the United States, farmers, processors, researchers and policy-makers at all levels work together to promote and ensure a vibrant agricultural economy. The result is that Americans enjoy not only an abundant food supply, but also nutritional choices and affordability. Africa is now beginning to understand the critical link between agriculture and prosperity. In Nigeria, we’re making agriculture the new oil.

Nigeria was largely self-sufficient in food in the 1960s. Then, we discovered oil and became too dependent on this resource as the economic driver of growth, export income and development. We abandoned our farmers. Yields stagnated. Investments in infrastructure were redirected. Rural communities slid into poverty. We became a food-importing country, spending an average $11 billion a year on wheat, rice, sugar and fish imports alone.

And yet we have an abundance of resources – 84 million hectares of arable land, two of Africa’s largest rivers, and a large and young workforce to support agricultural intensification. Plus we have 167 million consumers to support increased food production and processing.


But potential alone is not enough; we had to find a way to unlock it. We needed a major transformation of our agricultural sector. The change had to be across the entire value chain – from field to mill to table. So in 2011, we launched the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, with the goal of adding 20 million metric tons of food to the domestic supply by 2015. And in the process, create 3.5 million new jobs in agriculture and food-related industries.


Our first decision was to stop looking at agriculture as a government-run, charitable development program across rural Nigeria. We now treat agriculture as a business. Government’s role is simple: to create the enabling environment, policies and incentives for a private sector-led transformation to flourish.

Our focus would be on creating eco-systems in which small, medium and large-scale farmers would not only co-exist, but flourish together. We would do more than plant new fields. We would also create value-added foodstuffs from our staple crops through an aggressive import-substitution program and policies that would encourage new investment in food production and promote agriculture sustainability and resilience. We needed to begin to think of, and instill in others, the concept of agriculture as a business.

We ended four decades of corruption in the fertilizer and seed sectors. We took government out of a distribution system that benefited an elite group of farmers at the expense of Nigeria’s smallholder farmers.

We also launched a Growth Enhancement Scheme to provide subsidized inputs to farmers. And we developed an Electronic Wallet System which has allowed 5 million smallholder farmers to receive subsidized electronic vouchers for seeds and fertilizers on their mobile phones. Nigeria is the first country in Africa to develop and use mobile phones to reach farmers with subsidized farm inputs.

Today seed and fertilizer companies are selling directly to farmers, not to the government. Supply chains are being developed to reach farmers in rural areas. Banks are loaning money to companies and agro dealers.

We have set a target to become self-sufficient in rice by 2015 by providing quality seeds, fertilizers and other support to our rice farmers. In just one year Nigeria unleashed a rice revolution and produced more than 50 per cent of all its rice needs. Private sector responded with 14 new industrial-scale rice mills, making high-quality local rice available on the market.

We are reducing our yearly $4 billion wheat import cost through a cassava flour substitution policy to replace imported wheat flour with high-quality, home-grown cassava flour in producing bread. The government is supporting private sector investment in large-scale cassava processing plants. We are also developing the cassava value chain by producing starch that can be utilized in sweeteners to reduce sugar imports.

The result of these combined efforts is that Nigeria will meet its food production targets. In the first year of our transformation push, we reached almost half of our five year food production target. We also reached over 75 percent of our job creation target.

The UN recently recognized Nigeria for meeting the Millennium Development Goal #1, reducing the population of hungry people by half, three years ahead of schedule. We did this by growing more food, raising farm incomes and creating jobs in farming and food processing – not simply by managing poverty. This is a new dawn. Agriculture was Nigeria’s past; and in agriculture – as a business- lies Nigeria’s greater future.[/b]

Kenneth Kobani a man with substance, very good choice.

fulanimafia:
^^^ See Criminals

Look at this slave, you are Fulani now Waiting for your Chadian moniker

JTF stop disturbing people's business.

"We will not be bowed by the terrorists. " Your boys are out of control I hope you provide Buhari the current intelligence report on ISIS in Libya. God will help you people because every man will reap what they sow.

My Man Jonathan, is sleeping with both eyes closed now, a privilege you people cannot afford. Who is the clueless one now.

kingbasil:
The above bolded are the reason why the common man and the youths of the country keep wasting away and why the Plebs will keep taking advantage of a general state of gullibility shown the people. Your analysis is so on point.

But the youths and the so called common man are the illiterates and fools prepared to believe any junk fed to them. Nobody is going to help them, till they decide to help themselves. Nigerians are some of the most gullible people on this planet.