₦airaland Forum

oduastates:
Frankly , if it were possible for the Oil companies to move their corporate headquarters to Amsterdam, they would . Port harcourt used to be a very serene and peaceful city with a small town vibe like Portland.
That is until the Ijaws started their nonsense in port harcourt. Warri before then .
I remember when shell moved their non essential staff to Lagos during Abacha regime when the ND started harassing the oil companies.

Oil companies like Mobil ,National oil, Texaco etc have always had offices in Lagos since like colonial times. The administrative side of things to deal with local procurement, taxation, government and consular services.

laudate:
In fact, O di kwa too much! Onne Port is highly functional and has witnessed increased growth in shipping traffic, every year for the last 5 years, but the importers from the SE and other regions still prefer to head to Lagos ports, and do business through there. Then they turn round to blame your Yoruba people for the cause of their woes!

The late Ojo Maduekwe and the elegant Kemafor Chikwe, were both Ministers of Transport from the SE region, in charge of the sea ports and river ports, under different administrations. They had the power to change the fate of the ports in their region, but did they do so? No! Right now, Rotimi Amaechi is the current Minister of Transport who has the power to change the fortunes of Port-harcourt sea port and also dredge Warri port and Onitsha port, if he so wishes, in order to let large shipping vessels sail through there. Has he given the orders for these things to be done? I don't think so. Yet, his kinsmen from the Niger-Delta will still turn around and blame the Yorubas for the non-functional status of their ports. Onne seaport is there, thriving and functioning well, but will the SE importers use it? No. They prefer to head for Lagos whenever they need to import or export their goods. So whose fault is that? It is well.

You Yoruba people need to share the secret of your influence and ability to lock down the ports in other regions with us, so we can copy your footsteps. Maybe, it would help us gain more supporters in the political arena. Who knows?

docadams:
Do you really know the reason why you quoted me to post your comment. Better still read my post again.

onitshaowerri:
Onitsha market generates 80% of Nigeria's IGR. We feed Lagos!

Despite the yearly allocation of several billions of naira for the construction of a proposed greenfield deep seaport at Ibaka in Akwa Ibom State by both the State Government and the Nigeria Ports Au[/b]thority (NPA) since 2011, the project has remained elusive, with no evidence of a port being built at the proposed site.

The project is missing in the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan and in the list of similar projects planned in partnership between the federal government and state government, with expectations of private investors collaborations, investigations by LEADERSHIP have revealed.

The Ibaka Deep Seaport, a project for which the federal ministry of transport, the NPA and the Akwa Ibom State Government have held several workshops and taken commendations at several events is also missing in a maritime and air transport report prepared by Steer Davies Gleave for the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) hosted by The African Development Bank.

The study, which was carried out to assess the potential for enhanced private participation in the maritime and air transport sectors in Africa however identified the Lekki Deep Seaport measuring 970m of container berths, 320m dry bulk berth, 1-2 oil berths and located 60km east of Lagos.

The Badagry greefield port, Koko Port and Olokola Port were also listed with their capacity and promoters.

The water at Ibaka is said to have a natural draft of 11 metres, without dredging, making it a huge potential for possible deep seaport construction.

Akwa Ibom State has continued to budget for the port, which Governor Godswill Akpabio said would create employment for 100,000 Nigerians.

The NPA had also told LEADERSHIP in Uyo at the PCC meeting that the deep seaport would be completed in 2015.

When LEADERSHIP visited the proposed site of the deep seaport at Ibaka, there was nothing to show that a seaport was being planned at coastal community.

A lonely dilapidated narrow road, better described as a colonial road leads to Ibaka, from Oron. As early as 2011, the Akwa Ibom State Governor told a Nigeria Ports Consultative Council (PCC) meeting in Uyo that his government had concluded plans to dualise the road.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201312160580.html

docadams:
The author of this article is not only a lazy ass*hole but also a myopic tribal propagandist. To blame someone else for relocation of headquarters of the IOC to Lagos is really shocking. While the SS states threw away the baby and the bathwater some other state provided a very conducive business environment for them

. I dont really know much about the politics of the seaports but how can ships negotiate the pirate infested waterways of the ND to discharge their cargoes in eg Warri port. Moreover I thought Atiku and hi intel company.was said to be the major reason why ships do not patronise the SS ports.

stealsosu:
lol

Hunger in the land is causing their confusion.

They all know Yorubaland is the richest in Nigeria and the most viable, but their hate and envy won't let them say it. On days when hunger they knack them well well, they indirectly admit it.

stealsosu:
Na a o....I thought they said Lagos was no man's land.

These people are so deluded.

So envious of Yoruba success

Blue3k2:
Let the battle begin .

kettykings:



why are you people loosing your peace over this thread, this is even meant to promote economic consciousness and and intelligence, if i threw a real ethnic tantrum at you folks Nairaland would crash so i dont throw tribal / ethnic slurs i just want to promote good business discuss

BigIyanga:
Everyone does have not ethno-religuous binoculars like you!!
I called the OP’s thread nonsensical for saying that SA company is Naija’s and also for saying that company is richer than Lagos.
However, some companies are richer than Lagos and Naija!! A fact!!

BigIyanga:
Another copy and post from a zombie without encephalon.
Zombie Folks like you that you can make up stuff in order to make u feel good that Naija is a rich country...Japan does doesnt have mineral resources, but it’s one of the top 5 richest countries in the world.. how come?

MrHistorian:
Look at this product of substandard education trying to question Osun's progress.At this point,what you should aim is how to scale through your forthcoming UTME,boy.

Take a stroll.

Egbon Deomelo. . .I appreciate your efforts towards raising the consciousness of the public about the agricultural revolution in the State of Osun.

Odua a gbewa ooh.

Three weeks after they departed Nigeria, beneficiaries of the Osun agric business initiatives of the Rauf Aregbesola administration sent to Germany have reportedly expressed the conviction that Nigeria’s economic growth lies in modern agriculture enterprises.

The beneficiaries, who shared their experiences with a German newspaper A-Z Online revealed how their three weeks already spent in Germany have shown that Nigeria’s economy had refused to grow because of the country’s over-dependence on oil.

The ongoing training is in furtherance of the collaboration between the State Government of Osun and the state of Saxony-Anhalt Germany. ‎

‎The training is in continuation of government’s drive to revolutionise agriculture in the state under the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agriculture Programme (O’REAP) and boost food productions for local consumption as well as export.‎


http://nigeriapoliticsonline.com/osuns-agric-trainees-germany-vow-turn-around-agric-business-osun-nigeria-excited-exposures-new-agric-technologies/

[b]Exactly three weeks after leaving Osun, Nigeria and arriving in the State of Saxony-Anhalt for their three months intensive training in agriculture and food production technology, beneficiaries of the scheme have expressed high hopes that Nigeria’s fate lies in modern agriculture enterprises.

The beneficiaries, who shared their experiences with a German newspaper A-Z Online revealed how their three weeks already spent in Germany have shown that Nigeria’s economy had refused to grow because of the country’s over-dependence on oil.

The ongoing training is in furtherance of the collaboration between the State Government of Osun and the state of Saxony-Anhalt Germany. ‎

‎The training is in continuation of government’s drive to revolutionise agriculture in the state under the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agriculture Programme (O’REAP) and boost food productions for local consumption as well as export.‎

Adesuyi Fasola Michael and Adebayo Waheed Adekunle, both trainees, were quoted by the German newspaper as expressing satisfaction with their trainees, vowing that Nigeria and Osun in particular would feel their impact when they return to Nigeria.

Also in a statement by the Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, Fasola was quoted as saying, “We are poised to take agriculture to a new height in our state,” said Fasola while stating that Nigeria’s potentials in agriculture have been lying untapped for ages.[/b]

http://www.theparadigmng.com/2016/07/24/osuns-agric-trainees-germany-vow-turn-around-agriculture-business-osun-nigeria/

Oye0404:
How do they come with that stat of been the second wealthiest nd least poverty affected state in Nigeria. on wat ground nd criteria..

www.nigerianstat.gov.ng

NBS.

T[b]he Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola on Thursday launched a research and training farm institute in his quest to transform agriculture sector in the state.



The Research Institute which is located at Ago Owu, Ayedaade Local Government Area of Osun was accomplished in collaboration with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in a bid to boost agricultural production.

Launching the institute at Ago-Owu Farm Settlement, Aregbesola attributed the success of the scheme to unflinching support which the state received from the officials of the IITA.

Aregbesola said the step was as a result of his passion to get the state rid of hanger and poverty also said that the state had released 205.5 hectares of land for the take-off of the programme as part of efforts to advance agriculture in the state.[/b]

He described the institute as a “citadel of knowledge in agriculture” with establishment and challenges confronting farming and farmers would be a thing of the past.

He said the institution has the capacity to train, retrain and conduct various researches that would not only increase farmers’ yields but also expose them to modern agriculture practices.

Aregbesola said the idea was nurtured in a bid to support the existing farmers and encourage young ones into farming, saying with the scheme, a new era has begun in the agriculture sector in the state.

According to Aregbesola “the scheme was part of my administration’s six-point integral action plan to increase on the agricultural produce, improve the welfare of farmers and turn Osun to food basket of the southwest Nigeria.

https://www.channelstv.com/2017/06/02/osun-govt-partners-with-iita-to-boost-agriculture/

2cato:
yet workers are dieying enmass
Propaganda and lies can only take u to the top but will never keep you there

Eight facts about Osun agricultural sector.




With a vision “to make Osun the food basket of the South West”, Governor of the State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has so far achieved 8 major things in the vision he laid out six years ago when he took mantle of power on November 27, 2010. A holistic agricultural policy taken by the government has placed the state on the green map of the South West in a space of 6 years; making it one of the major suppliers of agricultural produce to markets in Lagos and other South Western states.


https://cdn.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/osun-graph.jpg


https://cdn.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/osun-graph1.jpg


]Germany has in the past four years trained over 40 young people from Osun in modern agriculture techniques such as ‘40days Goat Fattening’ etc. We present to you, eight ( facts on the agricultural sector in Osun:

1. Over 50,000 tonnes of cocoa exported annually.

2. Over 16,000 jobs created for the indigenes of the State of Osun.

3. Over 700km of rural roads built to reduce cost of transportation for farmers and increase access to markets.

4. 30 bridges constructed, with access given to areas cut-off from civilization.

5. Over 2.8 billion naira given to farmers as loans.

6. Over 11,000 farmers have been supported with direct cash transfers.

7. 5,000 farmers’ co-operatives registered.

8. Over 71,000 farmers have benefitted from the Governments interventions.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/eight-facts-osun-agricultural-sector/

PearlStreet:
Apart from Obiano, all your SE Governors are mediocre debtors.
You're talking of stoning Aregbe but TA Orji stole you guys blind and you brought him to Anambra to give him the title of Ochendo Ndigbo (of all Igbos). Or is crime a basis of respect in your region?

Osun people aren't stupid, Aregbe has legacies to show. Aregbe alone has more project than all your Governors, their predecessors and your ancestors combined.

ValUlasi:
I am from Delta but I served in Osogbo 3yrs ago, the place is something like a typical rural area in 1900. i was wondering where the funds entered.

The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Wednesday commissioned the Justice Research Center which is newly established and equipped at the State of Osun High Court of Justice Complex, Ilobu road, Osogbo. The center which was provided courtesy of United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with the…”