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Between this and the recent Lafarge factory, looks like Ogun State will be the cement capital of at least West Africa.

Olayemi R. Ibrahim28 November 2011
Dangote Group's new cement plant sited in Ibeshe, Ogun State, will soon be commissioned to produce about 6 million metric tons of cement per annum and this would create thousands of jobs, the Group said.

The new plant will create thousands of direct and indirect jobs for Nigerians, a statement from the company said.

The Group said that with the commissioning, the country will end importation of cement as total supply of cement into the market by the manufacturers will by far surpass the total demand of cement in the country.

With the commissioning of the Ibeshe plant and the conclusion of the third line in Obajana Plant of the Dangote Cement, the company will have an annual cement production of over 20 metric tons as against the total demand of 17 million metric tons for the country.

Meanwhile, the 14 host communities to the Dangote Cement, Ibese plant in Ogun State have lauded the entrepreneurial spirit of Alhaji Aliko Dangote and promised to maintain peace for successful operation of the factory.

They said the decision by Dangote to site the plant in their territory must be reciprocated by maintaining good relationship with the company and ensuring that peace reigns for the benefit of all the parties.

Speaking with newsmen at Ibese, Chairman of the Joint Host Communities Forum, Dr. Hezekiah Idowu explained that the irreducible minimum that the communities could give to show appreciation for the establishment of the Dangote Cement Plant is to ensure that harmonious relationship exists between the host communities and the cement company.

He stated that all groups, traditional rulers and the youths in the 14 host communities have met and agreed that they would do all within their power to see that the yet to be commissioned cement plant operates in an atmosphere of peace.

http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/201111280347.html

Cheap propaganda. "Love to fear?" lmao

op should be ashamed of himself

Audu sounds like a very big fool

But maybe he is just saying this to get their support and will renege later. That is better than this wasteful use of public funds

Awo's earlier comment is a good one.

Honestly, you cannot spend too much time try to justify your actions to those who will hate you regardless.

Better to ignore 'em and keep it moving.

9ja voice:
Lets look at some of this interview:

he claim that soldiers take advantage of the food they send to civilians ?

what about the food biafrans purchase from other country like gabon etc?
why did we gave bakassi penisula to cameroon if not for the blockade of foods coming via their axes.
or are we telling nigeria that cameroon also fight along nigeria army or that cameroonian land extends upto bakasi.

Haba

Why are you commenting about something you don't know about.

Read and remove your ignorance about Bakassi: http://www.omoigui.com/the_bakassi_file/

Is there anyone who can have beef with his remarks?

Also, what is the deal with this bank looting by Biafra?

How can they do that then turn around and be angry at anyone else for changing money? Or not accepting the currency they printed as good??

Anyway, very interesting article.

So the food aid that was sent by internationals and meant for civilians was stolen by the army.

All those starvation victims were victims of their own side  

Katsumoto:
But that is because those countries were already strong in their regions. If you are not strong in your own region, those outside will not take you seriously. Besides, there isn't anything in commerce or economics that states that trade with a richer partner will be more beneficial than trade with a poorer partner.

For instance, you will make less money trading with Walmart than you will trading with Joe Bloggs, ceteris paribus, because Walmart will use its size to negotiate better terms for itself. The same can be applied to the UK and China.

My statement is a commentary about investment only (not trade), why it makes sense to look for investment from larger economies than smaller ones.

Economy of UK, China etc is much bigger than all of these other sub-saharan african countries combined

If you are looking for money, you hunt for big fish, not small ones

Let's put aside sentiments and be realistic

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=812393.msg9643943#msg9643943 date=1322420755]dude stop displaying your ignorance here [/quote]Hehe

Every man has a flaw

Who knows, maybe gross generalization or even bigotry is mine.

But I find it interesting that this is what they and their buddies seem to fear more than anything.

There is nothing a Fulani seems to fear more than a SNC.

Curious, ain't it?

And what a Fulani fears and abhors should be embraced by most other Nigerians.

Heh.

Sometimes pastors say some things that if ordinary people said, you'd wonder "Did this guy just finish a line of coke?"

Is option A that happened better than option B which did not?

You've just inherited a legacy codebase in an ugly language like PHP.

No tests have been written for this codebase. It isn't commented well. The author has global variables all over the place which he is modifying willy-nilly in functions, so it is hard to understand what is going on.

He also hasn't separated his business logic from his display.

You are tasked with improving the codebase and also adding new features.

How do you attack this problem?

What general strategies do you find useful?

Hehe, true.

1 million in Sudan sounded like a really high # to me. Like, why would it happen? What would have caused it? But anyway the pdf answers some of the whys.

Btw I didn't conclude definitively yay or nay, it just seemed implausible to me at first.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40560748/3998056.pdf

(i'll keep this online for a few hrs but delete after that.)

Very interesting.

http://countrystudies.us/sudan/38.htm

Your estimate of 1 million I guess is pretty reasonable.

But they've lived there for a really long time. Not really clear if they are Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri any more, per se?

I also found a pretty interesting doc on JSTOR (www.jstor.org/stable/3998056).

I'll share it in a second for others to read.

No responses so far.

Hrm, looks like I'll have to look elsewhere if I want to find a freelancer for this.

I don't think being loved by your people makes you a great Nigerian, though.

They are two separate things, in a multi-ethnic country like Nigeria.

I don't care for the dude personally, but i can at least respect that he must have done something to make his people so fanatical about him.

There is nothing greater to me in life than gaining the whole-hearted admiration, loyalty and love of your entire people.

This is something that Ojukwu (along with a few other Nigerian and international leaders) have achieved that I hope to one day accomplish before I die.

Where on earth are these stats of 1 million+ Hausa in Sudan?

And how did they become "Hausa/Fulani" in Sudan?

It is only in Nigeria and certain other places in West Africa where they are considered one group. . .

I am very skeptical.

on NOVEMBER 26, 2011 · in NEWS
     
Paris – President Goodluck Jonathan, has said he would work with INEC, to ensure that Nigerians living abroad voted in the 2015 elections.

Jonathan said this in Paris on Friday, while fielding questions on voting, security and other issues from the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Europe (NIDOe), French Chapter.

The president said:“During my visit to France a year and a half ago, we promised to make every Nigerian proud of a credible transition and we are glad to have accomplished that.

“We will do better in 2015. Discussions are on to ensure that Nigerians living abroad can participate in the next elections if not in everything then at least the presidential and gubernatorial elections.

“We do not want to meddle because INEC is an independent body, but we will work with INEC to see how this can be achieved,’’ the President said.

He told the organisation that their clamour for a Commission was before the National Assembly and would hopefully scale through before the end of the seventh Assembly.

On transport and infrastructure, Jonathan encouraged those with contributions to come home and invest their experiences from schooling abroad, while promising that insecurity would soon be history in Nigeria .

“All the people involved in the 2010 Independence Day and Suleja bomb blasts have been arrested. People are being arrested, but until investigations are concluded we cannot make them public.

“We commend the security agencies for being on top of the situation and God willing, terrorism will be reduced to the barest minimum.

“We know that the perpetrators are idle and we are looking at job creation t hrough agriculture to engage them to forestall future occurrence. ’’

He also condemned the sponsors of terrorism and encouraged the gathering to be the best in all their endeavours.

According to him, President Obama of the U.S said of Nigeria, “Nigerians are very fantastic people and not because of your crude but one basic resource you have are your brains”.

Jonathan said:  “There are 25,000 qualified Nigerian medical doctors living in the U.S alone and that is only in medicine.

“The main thing is to create an enabling environment back home and that is why we are working very hard on power to boost and enlarge more businesses.

“We had fruitful discussions on the just concluded meeting for investors. We mean well for the country, we are moving forward and will continue to move until we get to where we are going”.

The President NIDOe-France, Chief Sam Obiejesi,  thanked the President for his support to Nigerians abroad and pledged on behalf of the association to “deploy skills and assets to partner and work with the Federal Government to better the lives of Nigerians’’.

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, ministers, and some notable Nigerian businessmen were at the meeting.(NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/jonathan-promises-to-ensure-nigerians-abroad-vote-in-2015-elections/

This has all you need: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_common_divisor

annie7:
Dis is for u haters of aregbe,in his press conference wit jonalist.1.he made made mention y he did not appoint commissioners in time because he has saved millions of naira 2 be paid 2 dose coomi's since dat time. No 2.on osun state civil servant strike,pdp administration were payin 35%,aregbe's administration raised it 2 45% wen they came in d workers requested 4 75% again nd it was after dat dey now demanded 4 100% dats where d crisis started dat are dey goin 2 use all osun state revenue 2 pay civil servant but we thank God all d workers ve returened 2 dier various offices,both health workers,all d fousr state owned tertiary institution nd every other civil servant.3.aregbe's administration discovered above 250m naira 4rm ghost worker in d state atleast it wil help d state a bit out of it's limited funds. 4.for d oyes scheme,half bread they say is better dan none 4 d graduate employed in dis scheme.wat has d federal govt done in terms of unemployment in dis country.an average individual working in local govt recieves an average 15 to 20k as take home per month.wat dis civil servants lives on is loan,am a banker and i can tell u more on dat,all dis priamry & secondary schools teachers u see recieves peanuts as take home .so i sea no reason y som ppl are underscorin aregbe dat he employed graduate 2 sweep on roads.let me stop here so dier 'll be time 2 talk anoder day. [b][/b]

Good Lord.

Gbawe, how on earth did you decipher this post?

Man this texting style of writing is something I'm still not used to.

Hehe.

Fair enough. Keep insulting him then.

Your loss happened today and the circumstances I described concerning it are very real.

What you are describing is a figment of your imagination, and even if one believed it happened, was 20+ years ago.

Some people lack common sense sha

Your homie just died today after a long and painful struggle with cancer.

I assume you know how painful some of these cancers are? How one wastes away and looks like a skeleton before dying?

Do you really want to go down this route?

Heh.

A word is enough for the wise. Let's leave it at that.

If you have beef with Bluetooth, keep it between you and him. Awo ain't got a damn thing to do with this thread. Keep his name out of your mouth.

Those are all wonderful, commendable things.

It would be easier for me to feel confident about him if he would 90% of his time focusing on his vision for Ogun and say 2% of his time talking about the mistakes of the previous adminstration rather than the current 20%/70% he is doing.

Let the EFCC and court system recover whatever OGD looted. He needs to shut up about it and focus on his job.

Or is he EFCC chairman now, or the minister of justice?

The time for talking about OGD is over.

olyivy:
Even  Abacha himself died an honorable death. He was not known to have taken otapipia like awolowo.

I would suggest that you keep your insults only on Bluetooth, if you want to do that.

If you want to start insulting Awo, then wahala dey.

rip

2500+ jobs created, no money lost by the LSG, more housing units added to the market, yet still someone will have a problem with it.

Nigerians love to complain sha

I have always wondered.

What government on earth can provide homes worth say N10 million to people who can only afford N1 million?

Won't the money have to come from somewhere else? Won't the money have to come from some other part of government's budget?

Is spending N9 million to subsidize each house for the poor guy really the best use of public funds? Highly doubtful.

Or is the argument that LSG shouldn't be involved in any housing activities unless it is only homes affordable by the poor? So in other words, this project which provided 2500+ jobs (probably mostly to poor or lower income people) and actually generated a profit (rather than a loss), they shouldn't have engaged in?

Maybe you should go offer your opinion to one of those who was working on the construction site, and from the money he earned fed his family, sent his kids to school, paid his rent, even sent money to his aged father in his village.

See if he won't give you a very dirty slap.

olas2u:
You are the silly person not me,how many lagosians can afford the flats.

How is this Lagos State's business?

It isn't like they are spending money to build free flats for the rich, right? LSG is not subsidizing the wealthy. So what is your problem?