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barcanista:
At least no one will have the moral right to say "PDP has wrecked Nigeria For 15years" because the Man that spent 8years, his Vice Atiku, His House of Reps Speaker Aminu Mansari and Majority of the Governors as at then are happily in APC. I feel bad for Buhari though, but life must go on. They say Goodluck practice 16>19, but under Obasanjo the APC Navigator there was 5>19. #Insincerity

You make these things too personal. It is not about liking a person irrationally, but about appreciating what they believe, what they do and the effectiveness with which they do what they do, and their steadfastness of character, purpose etc. It cannot be that 5 minutes ago, you thought APC policy proposals were the solution to Nigeria's ills, and now, a sudden epiphany! How does that work? When Jonathan says MEND did not bomb Eagle square and then reverses himself and accuses them of trying to kill him, are we not entitled to be wary of such newfound 'insight'?

Atikus loss in the primaries shows the fact that he is not quite a leading light of the APC, especially with his state still being pdp run. The APC is at its core an alliance of West and North East, with Tinubu and Buhari as the driving forces. Didn't Obasanjo at one time strip Atiku of all his responsibilities and stop payment of all his staff? Our vice presidents like deputy governors have little power and are often at the mercy of their immediate boss, so blaming them for the actions of the government while technically correct is still futile.

It would be interesting to examine exactly what your core political beliefs are, because sudden reversals such as yours are rarely attributed to positive motivations. My two cents.

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kayzat:
Can't believe you have to wake at the middle of the night to start dismantling what you help in building @ Bacarnista.



I still you luck sha .


And FYI, Obasanjo is not YET a member of APC as a party .

Nor will he ever be! Even according to Obasanjo. Yet he will always be able to generate headlines, which is why the APC has been engaging with him. As far as I know he makes no contribution to APC policy formulation or strategy but we must give him his due, he has wounded the pdp in a manner that is sure to benefit us. And that is enough.

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AustineE1:
just the way THE NATION newspaper,channels tv,sahara reporters etc are making massive billions from the self acclaimed poor Buhari,why is it that APC propagandists prefer attacking the messenger and nt the massage,you can never intimidate others into submission.....even if Buhari wears a priestly cassock,it still doesnt stop the fact that he is an islamic extremist.GEJ till Buhari presents his sch.cert!

Lol, so you see a message in the bow tie or tie 'debate'? If you knew better, you would appreciate that the press in this country lives on the edge of insolvency generally, so your tale of massive billions is rubbish. You think they sell all those TV hours to churches and organisations because they want to or they need the income to survive? Perhaps typical of a pdp supporter to make a judgement without thought or facts, like Jonathan with the Ekiti rigging tape.

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The only place it stirs debate is in the little mind of the writer on a second-rate newspaper desperately trying to fill it's pages! A bigger pile of hogwash, I can't imagine.

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I am still at a loss to understand your motivation, but I can see the signs of someone who spends too much time here and is over-invested in an online forum. It is odd to think that because of some relationships here, you have done a 180° turn of conviction. Has the thing you believed before changed? And as for the comments about Stella Oduah I just don't get that. What she did was wrong, plain and simple, so supporting her because you are both Southerners is extremely inappropriate. If the same thing should happen under a GMB government, I would expect the person to face trial and all the consequences, even if it was a member of my family. Nigeria cannot prosper with that kind of view. When we all learn that actions have consequences, we will stop the think more critically about our behaviour and the relationships we get entangled in.

However, good luck to you.

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jdilight:
After Gej has been sworn in as the new President of Nigeria a new political course will be given to his leadership style.

And this miracle will happen how?

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Icecomrade:
Assume you were GEJ, can u show us a better way you would ve handled OBJ defiance than GEJ n PDP chieftains did,

It's obvious that u and the goats liking your stupid comments are illiterates

You are the one making stupid comments here. Exactly what did pdp do to Obasanjo? The man dumps your party and you say afterwards anyway he is expelled? Obasanjo beat you to it and has yet again shown he is a master of timing compared to Jonathan and the pdp executive. After how many party delegations have been sent to beg him by the president, including a Presidential visit with Pastor's in tow! The egg is on the pdp's face make no mistake. Next time work on a more intelligent response if you must quote me.

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yemaldo:
I pity some people,even if buhari didn't win this election, am 100% sure d next president (2019)is a northerner and he won't allow boko haram to continue killing his people, an investigation will be carried out and...

My brother, the people being killed and terrorised by boko haram are my sisters and brothers too. And I demand a government that acts firmly to stop the insurgency, not this waffling that we are going through now.

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Abeg, the military should face front and use the 6 weeks to achieve something against boko haram. Even find our Chibok girls. Their preoccupation with politics is threatening our democracy.

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Boss13:
The man is a living hero already. He does not need Jonathan

Unfortunately, compared to Jonathan the average person/leader appears even better than he really is, especially Obasanjo. Jonathan congratulate yourself on your award of 6 weeks of fire before you fail at the polls. Nigeria will long outlive your incompetence.

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If they are slapping him repeatedly now, what comes next? Abia be wise.

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RecruitmentMgr:
Two hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo announced his exit from the Peoples Democratic Party, tearing his membership card into pieces on Monday, the Ogun State chapter of the party has announced Obasanjo’s expulsion from the PDP.



Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/ogun-pdp-expels-obasanjo/

Clueless pdp, expelling a non-member? Lol. Ok, continue

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deletrue:
Na Keyamo you dey quote? Nor be that riff raffs lawyer boy apc rejected when he was to contest as senator in Delta? How would you consider a rejectee?

Riff-raff lawyer that the AGF and EFCC are using to prosecute some of their cases? Are you his equal professionally in any way? Just asking...

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This only goes to further illustrate the timidity, incompetence and waywardness of the pdp under Jonathan. Instead of disciplining Obasanjo as an errant member, they have let him seize the initiative, and now he has delivered another public blow to the pdp. Jonathan always too slow to act, too beholden to the wrong people, too ignorant of the right thing to do. They can suffer the consequences of their own folly,while the nation looks on thoroughly bemused.

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If only journalists wrote with such logic and clarity, our people would be better off.

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tonytony208:
if you are actually not a fool like you claim you are not, you will realize it is STEUPIDITY to fight for a politician. None of them is innocent. Stop behaving like a baby in politics.

A politician is the same as you and perhaps me. It's just a different line of work. And like all professions, it is best to weed out the incompetent and corrupt ones. That is our civic responsibility!

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A7:
Yet Obj handpicked Gej because he is considered to be the most dumbest of all the Govs then. The plan is to get a dumb vp who won't give "loyal Yaradua" a hard time like Atiku, so that Obj can have his 3rd term agenda.

If Obasanjo is Dumb what do we call Jonathan?

Please don't rewrite history. Obasanjo handed off from government and the most powerful man around Yaraduas government was Ibori (who mostly financed the pdp election campaign). It was Iboris opposition to Jonathan becoming acting-president that lead to his pursuit by EFCC and eventual arrest in Dubai and repatriation to London to face corruption charges. Even the Ijaw people have forgotten their former local champion, but facts remain precious.

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tonytony208:
were you the one, who gave birth to her? How do you know whether her real age was 12 years in 2001? How do you even know if her dad's age is 73?

Mr, stop fighting for a politician. They are all corrupt; including mr "integrity" (integrity my foot).

I'm not a fool like some who cannot use Google to find relevant info. Did you read what I even wrote? Please if you know her mother, or that this person even exists, go do your own research. Buhari’s children from both his marriages are well known and listed. #thickasabrick

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Please use Google now? Haba, the info is easily accessible.

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Easy to debunk this rubbish. Take a look.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari
In 1988, Buhari and his first wife Safinatu got divorced. In December 1989, Buhari got married to his second and current wife Aisha (née Halilu) Buhari. They also have five children together. One boy and four girls. They are Aisha, Halima, Yusuf, Zarah and Amina.

So let's assume Aisha is the first child born in 1990. That means that in 2005 she was 14/15yrs old! And by 2007, she was 16/17yrs old. And at that age she was already doing international business of the sort they allege? Lolz. Very very stupid lies. Abeg they should go and re-cook the story well.

[b]Reports from New York Times Story (April 29, 2007) revealed Aisha Buhari on the dubious $1.2m campaigning contract to help the Former Akwa Ibom State Gov, Obong Attah, boost his image and attract investment to Akwa Ibom in his bid to become President of Nigeria, as well as a contract where Aisha Buhari served as a consultant to orchestrate enormous name golfers to go to the opening of the Uyo Golf Resort commissioned by Former Governor Obong Attah.

As indicated by the Nytimes story “she (Aisha Buhari told him that her father was the former military ruler of Nigeria, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and that her American friends included politicians like Mr. Jefferson of Louisiana.”

The former governor also verified the claim by New York Times when he said, he knows Ms. Buhari’s father, who is still a powerful Nigerian politician, by reputation. He also met her, he said, in 2001 when she accompanied a group of American politicians that included Mr. Jefferson to Akwa Ibom to see oil-related pollution problems there.[/b]

In 2001, a governor wanted to give an 11/12yr old girl contract to launder his image!!! Bunkum.

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Where are the 25,000 miles of road? Simple enough question.

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Fayose is just an idiot. Our main enemy is boko haram, but the government is willing to fight everybody except boko haram. Perhaps there is another story in that.

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Rad1cal:
What are you up to ? you failed to understand the import of my message, contructing roads is not a straight line graph, you will have to bypass certain obstacles which will increase the overall distance unlike using a flight route which is rather straight.

You are not so smart to also believe that Fashola has constructed more roads surpassing the distance between Lagos to Abuja.

Don't change subject. A mile is a unit of measurement. If Jonathan 'boasts' of having done 25,000 miles of road, the obstacles and non-linearness of said roads is irrelevant. Jonathan produced the figure, not me or the APC! Your car has a gauge to measure the miles it traverses. How can that be so hard to understand?

Roads are not constructed based on nautical miles, because cars are not airborne vessels yet and nautical miles will measure the straightest path between points in the air following the curvature of the earth.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/question79.htm
A nautical mile is 1,852 meters, or 1.852 kilometers. In the English measurement system, a nautical mile is 1.1508 miles, or 6,076 feet.

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anonimi:
It does NOT contradict my version, which clearly is based on the Organised Private Sector (OPS) assessment after almost two years of the clueless economic policies of DICTATOR Buhari.

Moreover the fact that textile production peaked in the mid 1980s and subsequently declined RAPIDLY is a sign that needed re-investments were not done throughout Buhari's reign and the outcome became apparent shortly after. That is called time lag in business/finance/management/economics. You can read on this concept to understand it better.

It is the same way the Nigerian railways Corporation, NRC recorded a very high passenger loaded in 1984 but started declining rapidly as no investments were made. In fact the railways were rotting away slowly as reported in 1985.



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Buhari was in office for 20 months, and that was the sole cause of the collapse of the textile industry? So the one million jobs the industry claims to have lost since 2000, how did that happen if the industry had already collapsed? Even now industry has frozen investment until the political uncertainty is settled and yet it is certain that a well run business can survive a tough environment such as the economic cycle will surely deliver from time to time. Please find a different target for your blame game because the facts do not support your argument.

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I was surprised to see such an article in The Sun. If na apc people now people will not listen. But the article is very good advice for Mr. President. Face your work and let it speak for you.

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http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=66346

Why does Jonathan see plots against his govt?

By Our Reporter on June 3, 2014 Columns, Insights

Every time President Goodluck Jonathan alleges the existence of plots to weaken his government, he sounds like the lead singer in a presidential orchestral performance. I often wonder what Jonathan aims to achieve by telling the nation regularly that there are “evil” forces working surreptitiously to derail his government. It is not the duty of a president to engineer conspiracy theories aimed to solicit national sympathy.

A hard working president should have little time for, and should be less concerned about, trivial matters that will not elevate his image in the public sphere. A president who is really engaged should focus on the key objectives of his government. A president should not be distracted by real and imagined enemies who are associated with allegations of trying to disrupt his government. Here is one piece of advice that should calm Jonathan’s nerves. There is no president without enemies. The more Jonathan listens to those little voices in his ears telling him the opposition has been planning to undermine him, the less time he would have to attend to important national issues.

At the 2014 Democracy Day Inter-denominational Church Service in Abuja 11 days ago, Jonathan referred to growing violent attacks by Boko Haram in parts of the country as a deliberate plot designed to dismantle his government. He told the congregation: “All these distractions are planned to bring this government down and since they failed, terror will also fail. We have been witnessing terror attacks for two years plus, but the Chibok incident has added a major dent on the security of the country… Terror will not stop this country from progressing. We know that these terrorists are human and they are evil men. Definitely, they are among those we categorise as evil forces. Forces of evil will never prevail. Forces of darkness will never prevail.”

It is true that the frequency of terror attacks mostly in some parts of the north has risen significantly since Jonathan became president. However, it is technically and factually incorrect for Jonathan to allege that the Boko Haram insurgency was aimed to bring down his government, or to disrupt the progress made by his government. Keep in mind that Mohammed Yusuf, the arrowhead and spiritual leader of Boko Haram, was captured and killed in controversial circumstances in 2009 when Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was president.

Rather than devote a part of his sermon on the Boko Haram insurgency, Jonathan should have spoken about what his government is doing to contain terrorism, to hold the nation together and to guarantee law and order across the country. The more Jonathan talks about the foolhardy nature of Boko Haram attacks, the more he sounds exasperated, indeed the more he signals his incapacity to confront the terrorists.

With the international community united in the fight against Boko Haram terror, Jonathan should be more emboldened now in his government’s commitment to tackle the terrorist organisation and other security challenges facing the nation. A bad security situation will not get better with more rhetoric than hard-headed and result-oriented action.

This is not the first time that Jonathan would regale the nation with his increasingly obsessive allegations about plots to weaken his government. Jonathan has developed a habit of portraying himself as a victim of unprovoked attacks by anyone who is opposed to his government, including the media and opposition political parties.

Fed up with a regular diet of negative media coverage of his government, Jonathan cracked in 2012 and exposed his temper. He said in August 2012 during a ceremony to celebrate the Performance Contract Agreement he signed with his beleaguered ministers that he would no longer rely on the Nigerian media for an impartial appraisal of his government’s accomplishments.

Jonathan said ill-advisedly: “Before, the media used to be the voice of the ordinary people but now, the media is the voice of those who own the media houses and those who own the media houses have private jets and those who own private jets are not ordinary people. So the media is now the voice of the powerful people. So, we have to have a way of assessing ourselves.”

What informed Jonathan’s critical comment directed against the media? Jonathan said that, in his judgment, the mainstream media have become political instruments used by their proprietors to achieve selfish goals. On that count, he reasoned that the media lacked the competence to make a fair and objective assessment of his performance. It was an extraordinary comment made by a president who was feeling pressure from all segments of the society.

Prior to his comment, Jonathan and his ministers had been roundly criticised for incompetence, slow pace of governance, insensitivity to serious national problems that required urgent attention such as security lapses, and inability to provide for the basic needs of ordinary people.

Against the background of increasing critical comments directed at the president, Jonathan configured that the media must have stirred up public sentiments against his government through sustained criticisms of his undistinguished performance. In denouncing the media, Jonathan forgot that the media, in its traditional role as the fourth estate, is expected and indeed required to scrutinise people in authority. The media is not an arm of the executive or the presidency. Journalists do not report in order to please the president. In their quest for truth, journalists are obligated to perform in the best interests of the society in which they operate.

When the media makes an adverse assessment of the government, it is undoubtedly a reflection of the public’s discernment of the government’s performance. The public and the press serve as the independent judge and jury that are much better equipped to provide a transparent and candid assessment of a government than the president or his ministers would. The public and the press are capable of differentiating between a government of bungling officials and an achievement-oriented government.

If Jonathan performs above board, the media has an obligation to report it, in the same way the media is required to publish adverse commentary about Jonathan’s government. Take, for example, Jonathan’s slow response to the abduction of more than 230 female students of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, on 14 April 2014.

The initial apathy by the government to the incident has attracted local, national and international condemnation. Most recently, former president Olusegun Obasanjo said in an interview broadcast last weekend on the United States-based cable and satellite television channel — Bloomberg TV — that “… the President did not believe that those girls were abducted for almost 18 days. If the President got the information within 12 hours of the act and he reacted immediately, I believe those girls would have been rescued within 24 hours, maximum, 48 hours. Don’t forget, they are almost 300 girls. The logistics of moving them is something (delay the sect would have encountered). Unfortunately, the President had doubts; ‘Is this true? Is this a ploy by some people who don’t want me to be President again, who is doing this?’ I think that was unfortunate aspect of the whole exercise or situation.”

When Jonathan talks stridently about conspiracies against his government, he makes it sound as though the presidents who preceded his government had an easier time with the people and the press. That’s not true. Former presidents and military dictators were criticised almost as vigorously as Jonathan and his government have been scrutinised. Any attempt by Jonathan to create the impression that a section of the country that does not like his government is spearheading all the problems that are confronting the nation must be resisted or dismissed as diversionary.

The best way Jonathan could respond to criticisms is to improve on his uninspiring record. He should let his achievements speak for his government. No matter how many times he claims that conspirators are trying to undermine his government, that decoy will not stick with a majority of the public.

The idea that a president should talk repeatedly about allegations of plots to enfeeble his government can only suggest to the nation that the president is shadows when there are other more serious issues to deal with. Jonathan should get on with the business of governing. If there are threats to national security, he must find solutions to the challenges. When he contested the presidential election in 2011, no one told him the job of a president is easy and trouble-free. High achieving presidents solve problems, they don’t complain of problems.

Jonathan should take responsibility for the failures of his government. Boko Haram preceded his government. And while everyone appreciates the enormous challenges that the violent sectarian organisation poses to national security, Jonathan must focus on the goals of his government rather than constantly alleging plots to overthrow his government. Whether he likes it or not, Jonathan, as president, can expect to be subjected to more rigorous examination of his performance, no matter how many times he screams about alleged plans to destabilise his government.

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/nigeria/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=166723

Million Nigerian textile jobs lost to counterfeiting
August 09, 2014 (Nigeria)

Over a million Nigerians have lost their jobs in the textile industry due to counterfeited products since 2000, according to the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON), WorldStage Newsline reported.

Speaking at the HP Anti-Counterfeiting Conference in Abuja, Director-General of SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu said, counterfeiting has the potential to endanger the economy and in turn its position as a new frontier economy.

“Over a million Nigerian jobs in the textile industry have been lost since 2000 to counterfeiting, which has led to closure of many textile units and those that survived are in a comatose state”, he said.

“Other than this, counterfeiting also had microeconomic effects which impacts sales volumes, prices, costs of rights holders, new investment, royalties and brand value”, he added

He blamed the weak regulatory and legal framework for the devastating impact of counterfeiting.

According to the Director General, manufacture and distribution of substandard and counterfeit product should be considered as an economic crime which should be accompanied with severe and appropriate penalties to serve as deterrent.

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anonimi:
Have you heard of Olusegun Aganga involved in the politics of his state?
Or Okonjo-Iweala?

These are two ministers who are primarily responsible for the policies that are reviving our industries such as textiles where workers received 35% salary increase in the last four years in addition to expanding production. Ditto for vehicle assembly plants that are returning here as well as expanded locally manufactured cement supply leading to price reduction.

GMB's two year MAXIMUM rule was a complete disaster on the economic front:


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The Guardian 15 March 1985


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Please note dates in bold. Kind of contradicts your version?

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-s-textile-industry-on-a-rebound-/148696/

Crusoe Osagie looks at the textile industry since the 1980s and states that from a near-comatose state between 2000 and 2007, the sector may slowly be returning to consciousness

For the textile industry in Nigeria, it has been a shade of tales. From a boom to a collapse and now glimmers of hope appear again in the textile horizon.

In the mid-1980s, functional textile mills in the country numbered around 180. Employing about a million people, it accounted for over 60 per cent of the textile industry capacity in West Africa, empowering million of households across all geopolitical zones of Nigeria.
The story soon changed and the sector took a massive dive into an industrial abyss. At a point during the crisis in the sector, from about 180 thriving textile companies, the number came down to almost zero, with textile giants like United Nigerian Textile Company bowing to the pressure imposed by a profoundly mean operating environment.

The Obasanjo administration came, made promises to resuscitate the sector, but all the promises to the near comatose sector, including a commitment to bail out the sector with N70 billion at that time, ended up as mere charade and political statements.

Turnaround Phase
However, since Olusegun Aganga took over as Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, there has been a rebound in the sector. If a stakeholder is asked the question: “Has the sector arrived finally at the former position of pride and glory?” The answer will be an emphatic no. But it cannot be denied that a steady ascension has become noticeable in the sector.

In 2009, the number of functional textile mills in the country had risen to 25. Although they were not producing at maximum capacity, their production lines were turning again and people were returning to work.
Data from the Manufacturers’ Association (MAN) showed that capacity utilisation in the surviving mills stood at 29.14 per cent in 2010 and 49.70 per cent in 2011.
The textile sector, which is a major contributor to the overall increase in industrial capacity utilisation, had its capacity utilisation rise to 52 per cent due largely to the Cotton and Textile loan, which was disbursed to more than 50 textile companies at six per cent interest rate.

The recent initiative by the Trade and Investment Ministry to enhance the revival of the textile industry through reinvestment of a 20 per cent levy on imported textile is another major step taken to reposition the industry on the path of sustainable growth.
Minister Aganga said the idea behind the levy is to promote the development of the textile sector, as boosting local production is the major objective of the ministry.
“We must diversify our economy by industrialising our country, and one of the areas we are focusing on within the next four years is the development of the textile sector as part of our industrialisation plan,” he added.

Checking a Decline
The textile industry in Nigeria rose to become the largest in Africa after Egypt, with over 250 vibrant factories operating above 50 per cent capacity utilisation. Then, the local textile market had a share of about 20 per cent of Nigeria’s textile products, with the balance of 80 per cent being imported.
Sadly, this sector, which generates about $2 billion annually for the country across the value chain, suffered the decline which government is now trying to deal with.
The collapse of the industry was driven largely by smuggling at the borders, failed government policies, high costs of doing business arising from prohibitive raw materials, energy cost, and a plethora of challenges which plagues the investment climate in Nigeria.

A report by the United Nations University (UNU) pointed out that in 1987, there were hundreds of textile firms in the country, operating 716,000 spindles and 17,541 looms. This was the golden period of Nigeria’s textile industry. Between 1985 and 1991, it recorded an annual growth of 67 per cent, and as at 1991, it employed about 25 per cent workers in the manufacturing sector.
It is not often remembered that it is the problem of infrastructure and competition that led to the sordid state. The government made a fundamental mistake by pushing Nigeria into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at a time when the country’s industrial base was still very weak.

In 1995, WTO adopted Agreements on Textile and Clothing, which states that all quotas on textile and clothing will be removed among WTO member countries. The main beneficiary of the policy turned out to be China. The global textile market is worth more than $400 billion at present. But, according to China Customs, the export value of China’s textile and garment alone amounted to $206.5 billion in 2010.

The Nigerian textile was one of those that suffered, especially because of the cheap exports from China. Nigeria used to be the major supplier of good quality wax-resist textile, popularly called Ankara in Nigeria.
However, in the early 2000s, cheap imitations of these products were being produced and exported from China to West Africa. Some would even be slapped with Made-in-Nigeria or Made-as-Nigeria labels and then sold in Nigeria.
Aganga noted that “it is the responsibility of government to create an enabling environment for industries to flourish and the textile industry is one key area we are working with stakeholders to develop. The textile sector generates employment for Nigerians as well as revenue for the government through taxes.”

“The development of industries remains the major mandate of the ministry. We must diversify our economy by industrialising our country, and one of the areas we are focusing on within the next four years is the development of the textile sector as part of our industrialisation plan,” he added.
The minister said his ministry was working with stakeholders in the textile industry to address the problems militating against increased productivity in the sector.

He said, “We are working closely with stakeholders in the sector towards achieving increased productivity. We have held meetings across the value chain in the textile sector and identified all the problems in the sector.
“Textile industries are one of the areas we want to focus on going forward. Apart from the fact that the sector is labour intensive, Nigerians are very fashionable people,” he added.

Manufacturers’ Stance
The Director General of Nigeria Textile Manufacturers Association (NTMA), Mr. Jaiyeola Olanrewaju, said the intervention of the Federal Government through the Textile Intervention Fund had significantly assisted in reviving some of the dead textile companies.
He, however, urged the government to give additional incentives to the textile manufacturers to enable them increase their productivity and create more jobs for Nigerians.

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Rad1cal:
see this yeye people, you failed to realize that urban road construction isn't like using a ruler to draw a straight line, it involves numerous twist and turns to connect two location together.

As small as Lagos is, Fashola once boasted he has constructed more roads than Ghana, will you also dispute that fact simply because Ghana is larger than Lagos.



http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/11/12/lagos-has-built-more-roads-than-ghana-sleone-%E2%80%94fashola/

Fashola has claimed he has constructed about 371 km and is hoping to increase it to about 577km. The catch here is that the flight distance between Lagos and Abuja = 536Km



[size=14pt]You see why Fashola is a very foolish hypocrite. Tufia. [/size]

A mile is a mile whether it bends, curves or goes in circles or squares! You are not so smart boo.

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Pdp and it's militants North and south will not keep Nigeria down.

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Gliding:
Compare the 98(1) "any [b][/b]public official" with 98B , which says "any person".
The punishment specified for each is also different. (Or were you just pulling our legs?)

This is a point many of them refuse to understand. We know the ordinary meaning of corruption, but in the criminal code it focuses on 'public officials'. So the argument as to whether Stella Oduah etc were involved in stealing or corruption is hardly one that is likely to amuse the public, especially when there seems to be no repercussions for either stealing or corruption under Jonathan. Neither is a commendable thing.

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What a load of rubbish! And a waste of my time

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