₦airaland Forum

ALL HAIL THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

The main challenge is to keep control of the town.

GALLANT MEN!

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]
WELL-DONE GALLANT MEN!

Tonalphs:
Thanks dear. It is well with Nigeria. I have so many military friends from army to naf. Four in Borno fa. Hate shouldn't be our thing at this point in time. I'll rather we speak up for these helpless soldiers. Things I've heard eh, you'll just know Nigeria needs cleansing from the top politicians and military officers. If all of them are wiped out, give these soldiers the right ammunition n see these terrorists become a thing of the past.

If it gonna be well with Nigeria then the average Nigerian need to change their mind set, holding their leader accountable, address national issues base on merit not on sentiments.
I am a barrack brought up, and have seen family we lost their love ones to the Liberia and Sierra Leone civil war,It was such a devastating experience
So when they are out there trying to defend the country,we have to support them with our prayers.

Tonalphs:
Nigerians are so filled with hate. Y'all have forgotten that these soldiers being ridiculed are sacrificing their lives for ours. If they stand back or turn back like y'all are saying, who would protect the citizens of Nigeria. I expect us to hold our politicians and chief of staff accountable for the huge amount of ammunition allocated to them than hate. Our soldiers are able to long as they have the right ammunition to battle. If you have a loved one in the military you will know what it means n how it feels when all people do is hate n blame these soldiers..
Someone has to protect the nation. Please let's respect those that have n are

This the most sensible post on this thread
I am surprised, when people blame the foot soldiers.
They are out risking their lives, while many are here typing trash.
If these guys are well equipped and motivated, this BH menace would have ended long ago.
But there are people at the top, who benefits from all chaos.Saddly, Many of us cannot see this because we are blinded by political affiliation or religious and tribe sentiments

NwaAmaikpe:



Good decision by her.

Because the Church is a city of refuge.
Just stepping into that church cleaned her of all her guilt.

But the accident victims should have also been taken into the church so the pastor can lay hands on them and heal their injuries.

MR SARCASTIC!

CilicMarin:
This Davido is becoming a nuisance to the public.

Same way you are a nuisance to nairalanders

SIMPLYkush:
Go to xvideos to watch free pics instead of waiting to see nudes of women in distress

Epic

35824L:
Saraki is playing with fire. Akpabio is a thoroughbred politician who knows PDP inner workings and secrets and how to use them to good effect.

And u think saraki is novice?

enemmo:
Not now, but in the next ten years...China leads america in innovation. The only field that USA will be undisputed eventually will be entertainment.

Also, the military and space science

OMEGA009:
No Nigerian can visit Ajaokuta Steel Company ASC, see investments of more than $8b rotting in the African sun and not cry. i went there, I cried. what exactly is the problem? if I have written severally on this topic, but today let me do a comprehensive post.

Ajaokuta Steel Company is massive, she has 68km road network, 24 housing estates on the project. Some of the estates have over 1,000 homes, a seaport, a 110mw power generation plant, there are 43 separate plants in Ajaokuta alone. It is estimated that if Ajaokuta becomes operational, it will create 500,000 jobs.

There is no industrialized nation on earth that does not have a steel sector it’s that simple. A report by the Central Bank of Nigeria shows that Nigeria currently imports steel, aluminum products and associated derivatives of approximately 25 metric tonnes per annum estimated at $4.5bn, this figure will continue to rise, and the Nigerian economy continues to expand. Ajaokuta is an integrated steel company, it was designed by the Russian to be self-sufficient to get all its inputs from Nigeria and make steel. Ajaokuta strength is also its weakness, Ajaokuta can only work with all inputs available.



this will be a slightly technical post, but please try and follow.



Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon amongst other things, iron is the base metal in steel, to make steel, you need Iron Ore, Coke from Coal, Limestone as main components. these components are mixed in a blast furnace to produce liquid steel which can be long steel for rail lines or flat steel for automobile making etc

To give a simple example, look at steel as making jollof rice, iron ore is the rice, the limestone and coke are the pepper and salt the pot is the blast furnace. At a steel plane the blast furnace is ONLY turned on when the steel company is ready to make steel. Blast furnaces operate continuously and are never shut down. The raw material to be fed into the furnace is divided into several small charges that are introduced into the furnace at 10- to 15-min intervals. this means everything must be in place BEFORE the blast furnace is turned on, the iron ore, the coal, the limestone, everything, why? Because you do not switch off a blast furnace for another 10 years or however its campaign life is.



Nigeria has blessed with all the major raw materials needed to produce steel including iron ore in Kogi, coal and limestone in Enugu.

Nigerian iron has very low iron concentration. Agbaja has the largest iron ore deposit in Nigeria with about 2 billion tonnes but the Agbaja iron ore has a high phosphate content. Phosphate can cause brittleness in steel making it to fracture, thus Agbaga was abandoned for Itakpe. Itakpe iron ore has no issues with phosphate but has low iron content, thus to make steel with Nigeria iron ore, a process called “beneficiation” has to be done to process the Itakpe ores to raise its iron content to meet the required standard for steel production.

Coal? Most of the coal found in Nigeria is non-coking, thus, unsuitable for steel production. coal deposits in Enugu, have no impurities but are non-coking. The good news? Nigeria has abundant deposit of limestone and we have natural gas to provide power



So back to Ajaokuta, what really happened? why can Nigeria not make steel anytime soon? let’s link up the elements

Policy Failure: The Ajaokuta contract was signed between the Nigerian government and the Soviet state-owned company, Tiajpromexport (TPE) the company was scheduled for completion in 1986. In 2012, the Federal Government launched her backward integration policy. Going forward import licenses for steel products was only granted to companies producing steel locally. TPE to ensure they could import steel parts for Ajaokuta simply went ahead and built the rolling mills in Ajaokuta before the actual steel plant was completed, they imported billet from Ukraine to accomplish this. Thus, Ajaokuta was producing steel before the actual steel plant was started. Thus, amazingly Ajaokuta has a functional rolling mills but no operational blast furnace, Ajaokuta cannot produce steel from basic iron ore found in Nigeria in her blast furnace.…this is the definition of cart before the horse.


NIOMCO Factor: The iron ore in Nigeria earmarked for Ajaokuta is from Itakpe, it has low iron content thus the FG built National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO) a 2.15 metric tonnes beneficiation plant designed to process the low-quality iron ore from Itakpe to iron ore suitable for Ajaokuta Steel. Simply put, if NIOMCO does not operate, Ajaokuta CANNOT operate (unless Ajaokuta uses imported iron ore.) as at today, June 17th 2018, NIOMCO is not operational




Railway: 15m tonnes of iron ore cannot be moved by road, as it will destroy the roads, thus a railway was to be built from Itakpe to Ajaokuta to take iron ore from the beneficiation plan in Itakpe to the Ajaokuta. The. Itakpe to Ajaokuta by rail is just 52km, the rail line was to be delivered by March 2019, but the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi revised the delivery date to June 2018 and converted the purely commercial railway to also carry human passengers. These changes meant the cost of the project and delivery dates had to change as passenger wagons and train stations had to be built. To achieve this, 12 new passenger stations and 12 access roads had to be designed and built. The Itakpe to Ajaokuta (IA) has two stations. As at June 2018, The station IA1 – Eganyi to Itakpe, is still under design. Station AW1 – Ajaokuta (standard station) (zero per cent work done). Thus the railways are not functional


Blast Furnace: The furnace in Ajaokuta is the heart of Ajaokuta, it is the pot where the jollof rice will be cooked, however it has never been turned on, why? because there has never been any time Ajaokuta has had raw materials available to ensure continuous day in day out production for 5 years. Why has there never been materials? Because there is no rail way to take iron ore from Itakpe to Ajaokuta. Why is there no railway from Itakpe to Ajaokuta? Because NIOMCO in Itakpe is moribund and no functional and cannot convert Nigeria iron ore to high grade ore for the furnace in Ajaokuta.


So, it follows that for Ajaokuta to work, we MUST have three key critical paths



NIOMCO must be functional
Itakpe to Ajaokuta Railway line must be functional
Blast Furnace operational
All three are not functional, so its clear Nigeria cannot make steel in Ajaokuta. Nothing however stops a corrupt government official from importing billets and running them in the rolling mills to deceive tax payers. So, when anyone tells you Ajaokuta will soon work ask them, can a steel plant work without NIOMCO, railways and a blast furnace?



All is not gloom, Kayode Fayemi as Minister was able to secure an out of court about Ajaokuta, we must build on this



In closing, Ajaokuta is the only steel plant in the world built by the USSR, sold to Americans, then to Indians, all these teams have come and gone with their own technical style, there have even been accusations of asset stripping by the Indians.



So why this post? because I am a patriot, I will not sit by and watch scarce resources be wasted in a grand deceit. Probably some corrupt folks have told Mr President that Ajaokuta can produce economically viable steel if “small” dollars are spent. You can already see how the critical rail line delivery dates was moved back to ensure it is done in time for 2019 elections, yet it is still in design stage. Ajaokuta is Nigeria and probably Africa biggest failure. It has failed. Can it be made to work yes but the cost to integrate Ajaokuta with her mines and rails can be used to build new smaller modern turn key functional steel mills. The government should get out of Ajaokuta, sell the place and allows the private sector capital and expertise restructure and own it.



If you want to make jollof rice and there is no rice the solution is not to keep boiling water without rice but to go and get rice.

My brother, thanks for your elaborate post, though it's lengthy, I took out time to read every line.
Judging From video in the post, its obvious that nothing meaningful is happening there.l am a process engineer, and have worked in a steel plant

Komu1048:
Abeg which one be ibo again. This thing no dey tire una?, instead to appreciate the job done by the police force.

Bro, I tire for them o , i wonder how that can help any of us.
Through , I'm not surprise,cos dis days,lots of kids have access to the internet.

Strikethem:
Michael Adikwu, an igboman.

Wrong, Adikwu is an idoma name from Benue

Palmerbarry:
Congrats to the man. I drew something similar to that on chalkboard at Landmark ICT back in 2014

Don't worry, we will set up a committee to investigate your own

That is,if naija exist till then

Henry22:
I pity these benue ppl, some of them from parts of idoma which share's boundaries with enugu state have started claiming they are from enugu state.

Brother, if there is a referendum to that effect, the result will be overwhelming. Who wants to associate themselves with these salvage called Fulani's.
As for the prof, he just a wishful thinker, if the conquered Benue, why are the accupant not Fulani?
The agenda of the Fulani's is getting the attention of other minorities tribes in the country ,though it gonna takes lives, but ultimately, they will be defeated

I have come to realize that, APC will always do well as an opposition party, not a ruling party. They were never ready for governance !

Iet me remind you that the rate of suicide as risen significantly, that's the true reflection of life in Nigeria under buhari regime, not all these propaganda

ezugegere:
For those of you saying that can't happen in Africa, GEJ was stoned by some almajiris in the north; he didn't order them shot

So true, can you imagine that happening with this govt?ur guess is as good as mine.

Funny narrative

Nbote:
D OK I OK is d first OK dat he OK'd

Nice one!

[qquote author=coolestchris post=61350382]ok

top debtors in the world
*List of countries by external debt in us dollars*
1 United States 18,624,000,000,00
2 United Kingdom 7,852,460,000,000
3 France 5,369,125,000,000
4 Germany 5,141,400,000,000
5 Netherlands 4,306,190,000,000
6 Luxembourg 3,900,665,000,000
7 Japan 3,516,200,000,000
8 Italy 2,324,420,000,000
9 Ireland 2,236,430,000,000
10 Spain 2,036,560,000,000
11 Canada 1,775,920,000,000
12 Switzerland 1,738,370,000,000
13 China 1,562,800,000,000
— Hong Kong 1,498,880,000,000
14 Australia 1,487,720,000,000
15 Singapore 1,320,567,000,000
16 Belgium 1,278,465,000,000
17 Sweden 938,692,000,000
18 Austria 638,340,000,000
19 Norway 623,223,000,000
20 Brazil 538,693,000,000
21 Russia 532,846,000,000
22 Denmark 491,617,000,000
23 Finland 483,369,000,000
24 India 471,852,000,000
25 Greece 471,763,000,000
26 Portugal 447,022,000,000
27 Turkey 432,352,000,000
28 Mexico 431,344,000,000
29 South Korea 407,341,000,000
30 Poland 363,658,000,000
31 Indonesia 335,289,000,000
32 United Arab Emirates 220,400,000,000
33 Malaysia 202,572,000,000
34 Saudi Arabia 200,900,000,000
35 Argentina 192,462,000,000
36 Mauritius 189,220,000,000
37 New Zealand 186,216,000,000
38 Chile 170,293,000,000
— Taiwan 170,138,000,000
— Puerto Rico 167,400,000,000
39 Kazakhstan 165,501,000,000
40 Qatar 159,200,000,000
41 Hungary 148,024,000,000
42 South Africa 142,833,000,000
43 Thailand 140,510,000,000
44 Czech Republic 137,606,000,000
45 Colombia 121,097,200,000
46 Cyprus 119,672,000,000
47 Ukraine 114,836,000,000
48 Venezuela 110,878,000,000
49 Romania 108,880,000,000
50 Malta 96,251,300,000
51 Israel 89,438,400,000
52 Slovakia 86,630,000,000
53 Pakistan 82,980,700,000
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt[/quote]All these countries in that list have bouyant economies.
Secondly , there loans are for developmental purposes unlike Nigeria that borrows money to pay salaries other recurrent expenditures

debbie:
please next time give credit to the original composer of this writeup. ..better still acknowledge it.
Thanks

NCC

Eazybay:
Did you say "only 28??!"
I just saw that
28 citizens of your country slaughtered by the army that is paid, funded and equipped from their taxes!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE SIR!

Don't be Surprise by such comments,
Lots of kids on nairaland these days.

Ajekuiya:
Meanwhile Catalonia referendum is today

Don't forget the Kurds from Iraq,theirs was last week

Omeokachie:
I was disappointed the northern "elders" did not call you to order when you made your infamous 97% vs 5% comment.


I am disappointed you and your northern "elders" gave backing to you youth quit notice givers.


I am disappointed your elders did not call you to order when you made your infamous "dog and baboob will be soaked in blood comment"


I am dis appointed your elders did not call you to order when you said "attack on boko haram is anti-north"



Mister, you have no moral right to call out any "elder" seeing that you have done far worse by not just keeping silent, but by making inciting and inflamatory comments!


Look up the word 'hypocricy', that clearly defines you sir.

Unfortunately, most Nigerians have short memories.
One thing is sure,with the present structure, Nigeria is heading nowhere!

Unidentified flying object (UFO)

When two Rich women fights, the cars suffer

factwriter:
Oh really?

Then shame on them! Having someone else affording them the opportunity and joy of parenting (a child).

Shame on them.
True gays and lesbians should live a CHILDLESS life since they abhor the Biblical process of existentialism.

Thoughtless ideology. Direction less movements. Rebels without cause.

Exactly, why adopt, when your sexual orientation is different.
They Should be able to live with consequences of being a gay or lesbian.

I guess its time to introduce gun control as advocated by Clinton