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@ davidylan and @Edoyad

US Interest are reason for Military presence Please

Militarization of Strategic Oil Reserves: Amid Africa's oil boom, U.S. binds ties

Freetown, Sierra Leone -- Potentially major oil strikes announced by an American-led consortium and a British company in West Africa have bolstered the region's reputation as the world's hottest energy zone.

It has also become the focus of the U.S. military's global mission to protect America's energy supplies, a development that critics fear will trigger more trouble than it will prevent.

The Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Wednesday its deepwater Venus 1B well off the coast of Sierra Leone had hit paydirt and formed one of two "bookends" 700 miles apart across two prospective basins that extend into waters controlled by Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.

These could each contain 150 million to 1 billion barrels of oil, according to Anadarko's CEO Al Walker.

One of Anadarko's consortium partners, Tullow Oil of Britain, which has a vast array of licenses in Africa, recently announced a new potentially important discovery in its Ngassa field in Uganda.

By 2025, the United States is expected to be importing about one-fifth of its oil from West Africa. That makes the region strategically important to the United States.

In the scramble for new oil reserves as the planet's older fields become depleted, the U.S. military has become a predominant force in U.S.-African relations.

Witness the 2008 inauguration of the U.S. military's latest command, Africa Command, or Africom, launched a year earlier in February 2007 by the George W. Bush administration, for whom energy security was of paramount importance.

The Bush team insisted that Africom was intended to promote a humanitarian agenda, strengthen democracy in a continent noted for its tyrants and dictators, and improve economic growth. President Barack Obama's administration endorsed that.

But many African see Africom's mission in more menacing terms: ensuring that the United States gets most of Africa's oil, not China or India, which need it to fuel their burgeoning economies.

"While Obama administration officials insist that U.S. policy toward Africa is not being militarized, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise," says Gerald LeMelle, executive director of Africa Action, a non-governmental organization.

LeMelle and other Africom critics argue that the new command -- which is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany because no African government will give it a home -- will only serve to keep dictators like the widely shunned President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, who overthrew his uncle in a 1979 military coup, in power.

Obama vowed that he would rid the United States of the "tyranny of oil" by developing alternative sources of energy when he got to the White House in January.

But Michael T. Klare, a U.S. energy specialist and professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, argues that in the years ahead the United States, as well as Europe, will condemn millions of people to the tyranny of dictators.

The United States, he said, "will remain dependent on oil derived from authoritarian regimes, weak states and nations in the midst of civil war."

That pretty much covers Africa as it is today.

This process of militarizing the energy business, and supporting unsavory regimes, began with the enunciation of the Carter Doctrine by President Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union address on Jan. 23, 1980, soon after the Islamic revolution triumphed in Iran and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

This principle, endorsed and even expanded by successive presidents, stated that the United States would use military force against any power that threatened its access to Middle Eastern oil.

That, Klare said in a January 2009 analysis, "led to U.S. involvement in three major wars and now risks further military entanglement in the greater Gulf area."

"The U.S. military has come to serve as a global oil protection service, guarding pipelines, refineries and loading facilities in the Middle East and elsewhere," he said in a 2008 analysis.

According to an estimate by the conservative U.S. National Defense Council Foundation, "The 'protection' of Persian Gulf oil alone costs the U.S. Treasury $138 billion a year -- up from $49 billion just before the invasion of Iraq," Klare says.

Far from protecting U.S. energy supplies, he argues, this doctrine "to protect foreign oil supplies is likely to create anything but 'security.' It can, in fact, trigger violent 'blowback' against the United States. … If anything, this spiral of militarized insecurity is worsening."

@ davidylan
Military presence in Japan is not colonising or taking over a country , Germany and Japan worked hard on their own(infact I believe Hitler's Germany Aided Japan to be what it is today). A typical example is American and British  Presence in Nigeria in the  oil industries for years and yet we still have jobs that are for the so call expertrait. It seems , some  would prefer to live under aparthied. I believe, Nigeria would be like Haiti if taken over.  by the US.
   The Confusion of divide and rule, Class system, Corruption, fake democrasy  left by British is still taking toll on us and should be enough lesson.It is only Nigerians that will have interest in Nigeria well Being. Period

@ davidylan
It was nice to see someone oppose your comments, This topic is funny but it brings the ignorance out of some people, Did america colonise Japan or were they not just dropped atomic bombs on them.
To those who support America taking over Nigeria. it is like asking the next man to take over your Marriage at bad times. We forget history so quickly, I believe some people would have been making this sort of comments when the Ashanti or Roman empire were On. It is now American's time in the world and very soon China will take over and by then we would be begging to be taken over by the Chinese.
Why can't we try and be our own great nation, We keep on blaming our politician, how come we even allowed ignorant people to surpass us to become Politicians in the first place.
Most great Nations from history have to oppress a hail lot of countries to become rich.

I know a lot of people will not agree with me on this , what do bankers really do to deserve the amount of money they get paid by this banks. These are private coompanies who should restructure to survive rather than folding up. Sanusi is not the problem. My Cousin who knows not Much about IT was employed by Oceanic from Vmobile to be a team leader in the IT department and her salary was 6Million Naira. I have always question all this amount

May she rest in peace, lesson ton be learned, looting will not take us anyway, lets leave a good memory in this world of Nigeria

@Genuflect , it was not freestyle as you said , I agree with you but the song demonstrated that ability. Using of street credebility and the rest to compose made me use the word freestyle

M I - safe
dropped the baddest rap video that I have seen from Nigeria, the free styling was hot. That guy is bad, I love that video. pure talent

@ Jay Bee

Thanks for this Topic.

I use to think that Banker bonuses where crazy but I have come to realize that it is one of the hardest Job. When I mean bankers, I am talking of investment banking. Those traders are special. Because of globalization , if you don't pay the good traders or bankers money, they can simply move to another company or country and that company loses. Bonuses can not be stopped in investing banking.
For Nigerian Banking, I think it is very different and i have always told my friends in the banks in Nigeria that putting pressure on staff to go and bring customers to deposit money is not really banking, charging customer 5 per thousand is just robbery by banks. They should open wide their investment wings and make proper money from the world market.
Below is some good links to read

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_04/GregCoffeyES_468x562.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-561417/City-heartthrob-gives-160million-bonus-hedge-fund-boss.html&h=562&w=468&sz=70&tbnid=0q4IOfUi1dz7aM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgreg%2Bcoffey&hl=en&usg=__UfNihkdUEvyMLS8Ocf0ak-Tbke8=&ei=FT3XSuu4NJK04Qb7stHNCA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CBEQ9QEwAw

another link
http://www.makemesomemoney.co.uk/2009/05/07/rajesh-gill-the-7-to-7-man/


I think Good Bankers Deserve what they earn

@ SapeleGuy
Thanks for your post, This are facts that i Know, I like Sanusi as well , I just used an intance.Liyel Imoke keeps Crying over the debt left by duke,. Also my main point is that this project did not even cost up to half the money claimed by the past Government

@AjaraEwuro
I still will not get rude with you, all I will tell you is to try get exposed. All your mouth running will not get you anywhere

@Tpia
You last post was funny . LOL

@SapeleGuy
Please not to be respectful, I have seen your last post.

CBN Clears C-River Govt of Debt On Tinapa Project

Nigeria as a country will continue to have problem because of our stupidness or silly things like this. As a state ,a loan was collected from a group of different banks to fund this project.What has CBN got to do with clearing Cross river state because they paid back the money they Borrowed. Oh , I did not know that you have to be cleared CBN or Sanusi when you take a loan ,also you have invited Sanusi to a function to announce that you have been cleared. I will make some few point below.

1. As of 2 years ago cross River was left with a Debt of 70 Billion naira by Donald Duke In the name of Tinapa while he Duke hanged on to all the paperwork of Tinapa as he left office.

2. Cross river State struggles with annual income of about 50 Billion naira which is not even Enough to run the state, With my little knowledge of maths, how did they repay this 70billion in 2 year or is Sanusi talking about the money that was collect from UBA and First bank as he mentioned becos it was about 5 banks that were involved in this project.

This is the same way minister of Jutice AndoKa came out and said that Ibori was clear by EFCC and only the following day, EFCC denied clearing Ibori. we as Nigeria have to challenge all this Thieves who pays hungry journalist to clear them on our papers.They should go to court and be cleared.

@AjaraEwuro,

please there is no need to get upset abeg you , sorry that we upset you . Please which tax office can we start paying our tax as self employed in Lagos V.I and how do we work out what to pay , can you get us the information today or from the website. You know Nigeria is so well govern.

@Eziachi
Please God will bless you forever. You and Ovie. Thank you for helping me on this matter. A country that the minister of justice said Ibori was clear by EFCCand the next day Efcc denied clearing Ibori. In a civilised world , That andoka or what his name is would have resign.Nigeria must go back to basics. I have friends in the local government level , most of the contracts they do is Borehole on the local government level. Look at NTA , even christ embassy TV channel work better and have better equipments.
I dont have much to say any , thanks guys

@ AjaraEwuro

  We criticize the roads because there is no proper roads that have been built , you drive through 3rd mainland bridge and it is like you   are swimming in a car, is that bridge leveled? only in Nigeria. The first day I went on 3rd mainland , I was just scared, the amount of gaps on the bridge not acceptable.
Abuja airport or the new MMa2 is not up to scratched compared with Dubai, Singapore and the new Qatar airport.
Below

Dubai Airport     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DXB.jpg

Tokyo airport 


You ask about contract , China awards contract to germans

http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/company-strategy/8155278-1.html

The early we start seeing things like a country that wants to move ahead the better , most of out projects are not up to scratch. am not here to call people names. What am saying is that with the money spent at Tinapa we could have don better and more things

@vanitty
I do agree with you But for future references, lets correct the way we do things in Nigeria and it willbe better

@AjaraEwuro

Please which road have they built that was critisized, The Satelite that they launch, is it working? No. All what Nigeria do is to hold meeting of past president everymonth. This are the same people that could not rule when the were president. Do me a favour randomly call 5 Nigerian and ask the their Zip code or post code, If you get 3 correct then there is a positive change. Why I brought this up is becos as a country we do no touch the basic thing that leads toward development . The Government always get involved with things that does not concern a government in any other country except it is running a socialist government.
Nigeria alway do things so that the would not work, Buhari mentioned this in one of his campaigns. a lot of projects now in Nigeria are given to China to Built but if you go to China , most of it projects are given to the west, do we ask the reason why.Most projects in Nigeria are low standard, examples are The abuja airport which looks like a college in Uk or the USA, that is not how airports are built in this days. Road in developed countries are built with concrete and the followed by butimen on top which gives it everlasting state but the day I went to Tinapa, there are pot holes already on the road that leads to the placewhich has not fully open. Everytime in Nigeria , all you here is rehabitilation of roads, why because the road are not built properly with drainage. Please tell me any local police station that has a computer on the counter that keeps records of people or what is happening in the station. Please let go back to Basics before anything, can police give tourist direction in Nigeria.
Turn to car registration, how many Pilot 1 or escourt 1 cars do we have in Nigerian, no body can know , people just do things above the law, there no way we should still have those sort of stuff happenning in a country Like Nigeria, no records , no Law and then we think that we are developing.
How can Otedula or Dangote be part of the stock exchange when they have so many companies listed there and we expect them not to manipulate the share. Nigeria is not ready for anything.
My summary is Until the Government in the 3 tier level becomes accountable to the citizens, get into projects like drainage and sewage systems ,provide housing through laising with the private sector, built roads and create and impose law.
Tinapa is an Elephant projects, you want people to come to calabar, do we have housing for the people that will come to work there.
Nigeria is one of the countries that it is regarded by CIA website to have the longest time to clear a container in the port with 16 agencies that will collect bribe and fustrate your import. So if you have a business in Tinapa, do you think people will be happy to spend 1 month to clear container and pay so much bribe to police to get their container to Tinapa. Big companies dont have time for this kind of shit. So Nigeria will continue to be a joke until all thess basic things are sorted out .

We have to go back to basic and find out how other economies work

For all those of you who think that The 70 Billion naira($450m) spent by Donald Duke at Tinapa was money well spent. I will prove you wrong . That money would have done better and more .
Please check the links below for what that money used in Tinapa would have built and that is why I just hate julius Berger who built a lot of shit in Nigeria yet they are respected by the Government and the people.

http://www.bncnetwork.net/pgs/Display/ProjectDisplay.aspx?ProjectID=15645 ($130M)

http://www.bncnetwork.net/pgs/Display/ProjectDisplay.aspx?ProjectID=6237 (this a $21m project)

http://www.bncnetwork.net/pgs/Display/ProjectDisplay.aspx?ProjectID=18374 ($21m project)

http://www.bncnetwork.net/pgs/Display/ProjectDisplay.aspx?ProjectID=8289 ( $109m project)

http://www.bncnetwork.net/pgs/Display/ProjectDisplay.aspx?ProjectID=16868 ($71m project)

http://www.bncnetwork.net/pgs/Display/ProjectDisplay.aspx?ProjectID=16800 ($30 Project)

http://www.bncnetwork.net/pgs/Display/ProjectDisplay.aspx?ProjectID=17514 ($30 Project)

I think we as 21st century people should forget Nigeria standard and bring in the people that can plan and change our societies. We have to go back to basics. What is the insentives in Tinapa which they have a price tag of I think $400,000 for a shop. they give out there are dreamers

@Ovie, Walata,

Walata, it is much apreciated you link that you posted but I also agree with some stuff that Ovie is coming up with.  There is no need for everyone to get abusive.  Am from Cross river state and happen to have a little bit of Knowledge on what is happenning there.Tinapa was built to be like dubai which i felt That was joke from beginning . Another Important thing is that Tinapa was not to be financed by the state goverment . The were bank Loans used for this project and the state governmet were suppose to be only garantor.
  Until people living in Nigeria start to see things Properly and hold their leaders to account, we are finished. Right  now there is no road to go into Calabar from any of the states. Tinapa was  a big fraud by Donald Duke and Obasanjo. Duke took all the shares and gave some to Obasanjo and that is why the place will not function.
    There is no state inNigeria that have structures that are up to scratch to any developed country. Nigeria no dey do well at

"The crux of the group’s anger against the Donald Duke administration on TINAPA was that "huge amounts of money being allocated to the 18 local government councils between 2002 to March 2007 from federation accounts, were diverted by Donald Duke, on the pretext that these local government councils had shares in TINAPA."

"There is nothing to show that these councils had shares in TINAPA. Nobody knows about the value of these shares. The group quoted the Transition Committee constituted by Senator Liyel Imoke, the governor of Cross River State, as saying that the debt burden of N70 billion was left behind by Duke’s administration, and that Duke claimed that these debts were accumulated by his government in order to finance TINAPA.

"Despite the claim that TINAPA was funded by private investors, there is evidence, established by the transition committee constituted by the government of the Cross River State to usher in the new administration, that Cross River has a debt overhang of over N70 billion. Donald Duke claims that these debts were accumulated by his government in order to finance TINAPA. This is mind-boggling, taking into account that TINAPA is supposed to be private sector- driven, "the group stated.

The document addressed to the president, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, dated June 15 2007 and titled, Re: Petition For The Investigation of Mr. Donald Duke, Former Governor of Cross River State of Nigeria for Financial Impropriety And Abuse Of Human Rights, signed by Hon. Omor Egbeji, former speaker, Cross River State House of Assembly and Ubi Okoi Abam, questioned, "Who owns TINAPA? Is TINAPA owned by the government of Cross River State? Is TINAPA owned by the local government councils in Cross River State? Is Tinapa the property of the organised private sector in Nigeria, or foreign interest? Recently, we heard from the rumour mill that Donald Duke issued share certificates to local government councils. However, nobody knows about the value of these shares," the group lamented.

What irked the group the most was the salary of the former managing director, TINAPA, Mr. Sam Anani. The people alleged that the salary of Anani was N4 million monthly and the contract of Mr. Anani was for five years.

"Presently, TINAPA is being managed by a company owned by Donald Duke. It is instructive to note that Mrs. Duke and Gershom Bassey are members of the board of this company known as Southern Gun Limited. Just a day to the inauguration of the new administration, the appointment of the managing director of TINAPA, Mr. Sam Anani, was terminated. The contract of Mr. Anani was for five years. His salary was N4 million monthly. Despite the fact that the appointment of Mr. Anani has been terminated, he is still earning his salary in full."

Reacting to the sack of Anani as the managing director and chief executive of TINAPA Business Resort, the group said it was very necessary because the erstwhile chief executive was in charge during the first phase which involved construction. The new hand was to take over from the second phase which is operational.

However, a press release signed by Frank Inyang for Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, made available to journalists, was silent on the monthly salary of N4 million paid to Anani. It stated, though, that the governor inherited debts from the previous administration and that the debts were manageable ones, because they were tied to visible developmental projects such as TINAPA Business Resort and Obudu Ranch Resort.

Cross River Movement for Justice prayed the president to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission to investigate all petitions against Donald Duke, his wife and cohorts, with a view to telling the people of Cross River State the true owners of TINAPA."


this the story of tinapa for now

@chukwudi44 I second all your post

@ Tonye-t
you just bit yourself with your word
"who says tithe is part of the Jewish law, it was a standard/concept/principle/custom that existed b4 the advent of the law(Jewish law) and was only included into the mosaic law showing how it ought to be administered if they must be blessed"
so do we as christian follow the standard /concept/principle and custom of the land or we follow Jesus Christ laws.
Even the common CDs,Books and DVDs that the churches sell, I can afford to give them out for free in thousands, talkless of those flying private jets.The cost of running those jets are enormous.

@ Chukz4real and gbubs
These are some of the proofs you wanted, even in America that you have TD Jake, Benny Hinn and others , Islam is still growing faster.

"Islam is widely considered Europe's fastest growing religion, with immigration and above average birth rates leading to a rapid increase in the Muslim population."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4385768.stm


"The second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, Islam is also the fastest-growing religion. In the United States, for example, nearly 80 percent of the more than 1,200 mosques have been built in the past 12 years. "

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/14/egypt.islam/

Please check the amount of Mosque that have been built yet the Muslims are not on tele begging for money or tithe.
It shames me when I see church organisations going to Africa to built boreholes that are manually pumped and then show that on Tele for us to donate more money, If i had the money like those churches had, I would lay pipes for miles and get electric pumps.Could they build that in their country
Make we sit up as Christians abeg

@Keloa
Tithe is not 10 percent of your profit and your salary is not a profit. You quoted a place in Corinthians

1 Corinthians 16

1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

2Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

I like this because Paul talks about collection for the saints but not Tithe, one can give towards a pastor or running the Church but not 10 percent that you guys call Tithe and why have you added spiritual to food, Food in the bible is food, end of story.The Bible even tells us that if we want to pay Tithe and we can not carry it , we should convert it to money until we reach where we want to tithe and then convert it back to food.It is just a Shame that Many Pastors that we see in God Chanels or Television today are all begging for money or for someone to buy a book from them and they now expect the viewers or unbelievers to take them seriously
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Two questions I have for the Pastors and Tithers

1) How come Jehovah witness with all the books they Give out and networking that they have , they don't beg for money

2)With all this money begging in the Church, How come Islam is still the fastest growing religion in the World That it even shakes the western world and they don't Beg for money.

Alot of churches now bears the name of the pastors with pictures of their wives(.org). What will happen to those churches when they die in future, every body wants to have a ministry that they can make money from. I think we should just fix our head up

So this Blog no do.

I feel sorry for Rita, she really represents Nigeria and its educational system and I think we should all get out of this silly believes that not speaking good English is good enough reason for the person to be written off. I wonder if a German girl was in the room with bad English, if we could have still talked down on  her.
  My blame goes to the programme producers who could have collected millions for the audition and could not spot her weakness.Also the theme of the programme does not represent a true Nigerian woman, most  Nigerians  would want to marry a home  professional girl and not  a kokolette

My Verdict

With a little of my Football knowledge, I overall blame Nigerian technicality, even the match against Kenya, they where more technical than us. Friendlies do not rally count and as Dominic Iorfa said on AIt  that the french game , only 3 French players took it seriously. Amodu does not have a clue on managing the team.He just sits as a boos while Amocachi shows more concern about the Team.
  I must say the Tunisians where using a 3 man Barrier to mark us and that is why you did not see much of Uche and Nsofor today. For Mickel , I have never rated him, his style of football is to play and pass backwardly with small pressure on the Team. Amodu needed the English style of play today by just pumping all the balls to the front and hoping that our good forwards will convert one to the goal but instead they were playing from the back and with the style of marking the Tunisians Had, that can not work, also with Mikel getting all the balls and passing back to Keeper or yobo. I think Yobo, Olufin and Taiwo where our best Players Today, Please before you criticize Taiwo, his style of play is to just win the ball and send it forward but trying to keep the ball down under pressure does not make him a bad player, Mikel Midfield allowed the defenders to be under pressure.
  We have to change Amodu and bring a technical young , not a big name. It will be a shame that , I am seeing it Impossible for us to Qualify. Utaka could have held that Midfield better that Mikel.

@honeric01

Sorry if am wrong, with regards to the previous discussion, the guy said he wanted a very fast internet for his business. so it wasn't a home User .First and foremost all Nigerian Vsat provider are sub agents so I would rather talk to guy from Israel, Dubai or Europe for where Vsat teleports are.
What init4dmoni said in his last post was very correct. I did not have to do this but i will post price list of vsat connection with a goo speed and you will see that for a good speed you will pay up to 3000 dollars a month.If you need more quote I will send.

What I am saying is that for you to get 2meg on VSAT , you will payy at least $2000 .

honeric01

20-50k naira can not get you starcomms speed on Vsat. You need at least 2000 dollars a month to get a reasonable speed on vsat.

@HAyprof,
I like the way you handled cube63 , I think people like him that needs God's help, he is just so abusive , he needs help more than Nigeria itself. nawa ooooo

@Flyuche
Thanks my brother , people come in here and all they do is just complains. If person use starcomms or MTN and is not satisfied in Nigerian , then the person get to go Nitel or Niacomsat. Lets pray that glo complete this their GLO-1 Cable one day and then sell it cheap to other ISP, then our internet will Improve.
A country like Nigeria can not depend on VSAT to step down its internet connectivity and then share it around through wireless and expects it to be good, some get from Nitel and we all know that Nitel is not in existence , how they even manage to get bandwidth from Nitel surprises me . So we just get to manage all this.
Saying all this , I have used wireless internet in UK(T-mobile and 3) and they don't seems to be anything better that starcomms in Nigeria, sometimes I have to wait for signals to come back on. So my own conclusion is if we want to have a steady internet without complain, na cable ooo, if not make we just leave with it . This guys , some of them dey try

@livingcove
Try and go for a slot and then use the card , with that you have an option of buying an external antenna. I use an amplifier with my card sometimes and this draws signals up to 80 Kilometer from any starcomms base station. use this in my car when am travelling . This guys are just after our money but I still prefer Starcomms though.With the Rev A in Abuja ,I enjoy youtube at all time.

@Lyxn
I don't really thing that these companies worry about keeping their customers or even their customer care informed properly. One of starcomms staff was trying to sell me my sierra express card , all she was saying was that it is a Rev A and i then ask her what Rev A was and she said she did not know, so I now ask her why she was trying to sell me a product that she didn't know much about. Starcomms sells the Express card 15k just because it is rev A but they fail to know that we know that there is no Rev 0 product line anymore.
Another thing that amazes me is the USB modem Prices, this are modems that should not or don't even cost as much as the cards but because this telecoms companies in Nigeria knows that if you have a desktop, you don't have an option than a USB, so the put the prices at 25k and that is why I would never buy a usb Modem, I believe Starcomms don't buy those usb more than 4k each.

@Redman44

Thanks for you comments, this projects being materialized for is more important than going to youtube and if the government can stop Using Julius Berger to build crap in Nigeria at such a high cost , then that will help. There are very Good companies in Dubai that will make this projects  a reality but if this contracts are given to Julius berger , they will look like any other cheap buildings in Nigeria like our international airport in Abuja.
  It is great to have this ideas but make we try invest in job creations and that will befit the common man more. When this projects are done , it is only the senators and politicians that will be using them for their so call retreat which they just finish one in Minna where all the 88 senators went home with about 4 million naira for 2 days.

Kwara  keep it up