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Is Ogun becoming the new Lagos-Ota, Magboro,Agbara etc becoming heavily industrialized

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Musa Muhammed Sada, has said that a new era await mining and steel production in the country will soon experience a lift in activities, going by policy input and restructuring being undertaken by the ministry in the two divisions.
According to him, the government is ready to offer necessary support to operating firms in the steel sector, just as mining is being made to benefit all segments involved in the mining process.
The minister stated this when he visited the new integrated steel mill belonging to Western Metal Products Limited, situated at Magboro, Ogun State. Western Metal Products Company Limited on Friday began a test run of its new multi-billion naira integrated steel mill.
The minister said while the government would continue to initiate new policies and schemes to encourage investor participation in mining activities, informal mining sector would continue to be taken care of. Besides, he said plans were in the offing to ensure that Ajaokuta Steel Company, the backbone of steel rolling mills in the country, got required attention in terms of the appointment of the right management.
He said the government made a peculiar mistake in its past efforts to privatise the Ajaokuta Steel Complex by putting emphasis on possession of money as the most important consideration in its choice of management team.
He said, “Past efforts did not achieve the desired results because money was put ahead of other considerations in the selection of management team. In such a process, three things are important: money, requisite management skill and adequate understanding and belief in the environment.
“In past attempts at privatisation, capital was given the most important place. After all the ongoing scuffles over with the immediate past management have been settled, the Federal Government has decided to be careful by emphasising possession of the right management skills and in-depth understanding of the environment and belief in its peculiarity as key conditions for selecting a new management for Ajaokuta Steel Company.”
The minister said his visit to the new WEMPCO integrated steel mill, ahead of the formal inauguration of the new facility, was informed by the importance the government attached to the position of steel in its economic transformation efforts. He said a quick resolution of all the problems associated with the non effective working of Ajaokuta Steel Company would have multiplier effects on the operations of steel rolling mills and other sectors of the economy.
Besides, he said under the new management of Ajaokuta Steel Company, “the government will not step back; it will be involved in a supervisory role.”
The Group Managing Director, WEMPCO, Mr. Lewis Tung, while conducting the minister round the sprawling facility, said steel remained the basic metal-backbone of all industries, just as it happens in advanced countries of the world.
He said the new integrated steel facility had production capacity of 700,000 metric tonnes and a production machinery of five-stand Tandem Mill, which is the first of its kind in Africa.
He described the factory as one set to produce cold roll steel sheet of up to 0.15mm in thickness and coils of the same dimension and above.
Tung listed the facilities at the plant to include a 52-megawatt generator for power supply; a water treatment and recycling plant; an acid generating plant; an air purifier and an annealing line.
He listed the benefits from the steel companies to include a boost in economic activities of the immediate communities, local, state and the country; increase in downstream economic activities, general empowerment and job creation for artisans, like technicians, drivers, auto technicians and fabricators; and training and technology transfer.


Source http://www.punchng.com/business/industry/fg-pledges-new-era-for-mines-steel-development/

I am sure you dont want us to read all this.

This is not analytical enough Torres2.

where is GEJ?

Thank you Naptu2. If I may ask, are u a photographer? More of factual or pictorial explanations.Kudos. Lagos is fine;Abuja is cool.

It moves in his blood. Handsome dudes.

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT SOME PEOPLE REPRESENT US ALL. FELA IS SYNONIMOUS TO NIGERIA IN MUSIC WHILE WOLE SOYINKA IS SYNONIMOUS TO NIGERIA IN LITERATURE.

SO WOLE /FELA ARE QUALIFIED. OYINBO SEF DEY CELEBRATE THE TWO MENTIONED GUYS.

Arcard: If indigenes of lagos truly want ppl 4rm oda state to go eh! Dnt dy knw dat lagos wl bcom dry.any way sha lagos no b d only cty fo naija cme enugu its ok or go to port its better sef.

BETTER INDEED WITH NO GOOD ROAD, NO ENTERTAINMENT AND TOURIST CENTRES, NO BEACH, POOR SECURITY OF LIFE, ETC.

U CANNOT HAVE ANOTHER LAGOS IN NIGERIA TILL ETERNITY, NOT EVEN ABUJA.

CENTER OF EXCELLENCY, NOT BY MOUTH.

EKO O NI BAJE OO.

NOT SURPRISED AT ALL. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE KNOWN FOR. ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING,RITUAL KILLING, SWINDLING, ETC. GOD SAVE NAIJA.

When will Jonathan clear his name of this mess?

If he is not corrupt, I think all these are too open.

I regret voting this man.

Baby mama:

Why are men like this
Hidden children all over the place
Same way Abiola died and over 100 kids crawled out from under olumo rock to claim property sotay they had to do DNA tests to sort out who is who
Bola Ige died,a daughter surfaced out of no where
Enwere died,a hidden mistress appeared with kids
Gani died,we saw some strange women included in the will
Haba!
This is too much

When OBJ dies I am sure there will be women and children from all 6 geopolitical zones all looking like chimpanzees coming to get their share
So far we have never heard of a Mrs Wole Soyinka but I bet you the day he dies,they will come out with their children



Good for Bianca,she got some good property there.

It showa CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO (GCFR, SAN) was indeed a man of outstanding integrity and matchless credibility. Till today no woman has come with any child or any claim of pertanity. He remains a good leader even in grave worthy of following.
He did not fight and run away, he did not cause trouble after dying. True leader.

Adieu baba rere.

Koro ko, bitter ni. Let thebest person with best ideas and vision win. The floor is open for all.

God will heal him but I think his people are too defensive. Get well man.

Tubaba all the way.

It takes a lot to be big. People always make mistake when it comes to rave of the moment and what I call stabilized star. Wizkid won MOBO, BET,etc last year and got Pepsi endorsement, does that make him bigger than D'banj, P Square and Tuface?

D'banj is big and good but knows what Tuface is capable of doing.

Tuface since 1995 and still counting is not a joke- Raw said in his track 'the greatest' that Tuface and him rocked IMT before MTV base and that was 1995/96. where was D'banj, Psquare,etc and it is not as if he has gone down still doing his things.
Tubaba

Source pls.

beautiful. More pics plssss

Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta have been named on a three-man shortlist for this year's Ballon d'Or prize, Fifa has announced.
Messi, 25, has scored 82 goals this calendar year - just three short of the record set by Gerd Mueller in 1972.
Real Madrid's former Manchester United player Ronaldo also makes the list, along with Barcelona's Iniesta.
Pep Guardiola, Vicente del Bosque and Jose Mourinho are shortlisted for coach of the year.
Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, Britain's sole representative on the initial 23-man list, failed to make it through. His Old Trafford team-mate Robin van Persie also missed the cut, as did Manchester City trio Sergio Aguero, Mario Balotelli and Yaya Toure.
After 50 goals last season in La Liga - including breaking Barcelona's 60-year-old goal-scoring record with a hat-trick in a 5-3 win over Granada in March - Messi is expected to win Fifa's player of the year award for the fourth successive year.
Ronaldo, who won it in 2008, provides strong competition after playing a key role as Real Madrid edged arch-rivals Barca to the Spanish title.
The Portuguese scored 60 goals in all competitions in the 2011-12 season as Mourinho's side also reached the last four of the Champions League before being knocked out by Bayern Munich.
He already has 19 to his name so far this term.
Iniesta, a team-mate of Messi's at Barcelona, was named as the tournament's best player as Spain won Euro 2012.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20534947

I respect the guys that marry them any time I see such. Not because of anything other the fact that I know I always find it difficult to do. My main reason is, why should I marry a woman whose second husband is somewhere? Remember any day or time the child wants to do wedding or graduation, it is the other man that will sit with my wife, put on same cloth and act like husband and wife. Why should I be second husband? They will even snap, dance together, if it is in the South west, they will even ask her to kneel down and do all sort of things......ahahahahahahah. I cant stand such.

He said a plain truth. Why should Jonathan deceive his people? I voted for him because he promised to stay for 4 years not knowing he was lying.

PDP people are confused. Tukur's son has curroption charge to settle, insecurity everywhere. Unemployment, boko haram menace, etc. Issues.

My Osun State gov, we like you.

Why are PDP people always think like this. As much as I am not a party person, as a Lagosian, I really like Fashola and all his policies. Why I laugh at time at the way we reason is most times we want to eat our cake and have it. These are the questions for reasonable people to answer:

1. Do we want Lagos to remain a slum- Answer- No;
2. What can we do to make Lagos a good state or city- Answer- Things that good cities of the world have done that helped them develop;
3. Examples of those cities- Answer- Johannesbough- Dubai (UAE),Cape town, London, etc;
4. Do they have traffic laws that are as harsh as our own in Lagos?-Answer -Yes, even worse than our own including speed limit, etc;
5. Do they have okada there?-Answer- No.
6. Do we want Lagos to be like Dubai-Answer -Yes- Note that majority of the roads in Dubai are concessioned and for toll collection for maintenance.

My people, we need to understand the position of the gov, it is for our over all welfare.

Besides, ACN will always win in any gubernitorial election but local govt may be different because it is a grass root stuff.

JayKayMaybachz: I really respect Oprah's ....... Madonna .......... Mariah Carey ........ Beyonce knowles .......... etc who made it with dia own sweat ....... dis wan na our own money oooooooooooo

Is either you dont know how to read or your level of assimilation is low.

From banking to fashion designing ( for the like s of Abiola (the richest Nigerian then, Babangida, Mariam Babangida, etc) to oil.

How is it your money?

Who God has blessed no man can curse. Madam, I tap into your anointing.

The simple answer is families are raised in different ways.No two types of identical families exist, so dont compare your marriage with theirs. If she chooses to marry him and God grants them a long life, by the time Hon Rotimi would be 80 years she would have become 60 years old too so what is left for them is to enjoy the fruit of their labour.

I wish them well.

cjrane: Another wasted ofenmanu generation claiming false "shophistication" with philosophy here.
Who told you Biafra wanted Nigeria to feed her? Biafra was blockaded by a warship provided by Britain which sank any merchant ship bringing in food supply purchased or donated to Biafra. Like in every blockade, such as the Israeli blockade of Gaza,they inspect the ships to ensure they had no weapons or chemicals that could be of military use.Have you heard the Isrealis saying they would sink any ship destined for Gaza? But in Nigeria's situation, Britain handed Nigeria an instrument to starve the civilian population ! In which murders like Awolowo simply murdered millions of children by threatening to bomb any shipment to Biafra, even those that were certified to have food. No country including the present day Nigeria can survive if a bigger power prevented everything from coming into Nigeria merely because it had a navy to do it.
So get your facts straight into your hard skull, Biafra was only asking for international laws to be respected nothing more,nothing less.Not for a single grain to come from Nigeria. In any case,Nigeria would have poisoned any food destined for Biafra as it did in a few occasions. So why would you cry for such a monster to feed you?

Biafra was defeated by Britain and the former USSR. The extent of these powers involvement was unprecedented and definitely unanticipated. Biafra was militarily superior until Britain literally opened its armory of heavy weapons to Nigeria after Biafran liberation of the midwest.Plane loads of weapons left Gatwick airport,London every night and flew directly into Lagos and Kano from that date until the war ended."Nigeria wasted more small arms fire in less than 15 months than all the Allied expeditionary forces in world war II". Go Figure!

It is obvious your generation cannot be wise and your tribe will always suffer in the hands of wiser people simply because you (yanmiri) ajokutamamumi always act before you think. A defeated tribe here typical of his ancestors claiming some people helped some people. When will you learn? When will your medula oblangata start working beyond selling fake products and kidnapping? When will you know some individuals like Awo were too good tobe maligned by a defeated tribe or ethnic?
Have u forgotten how Ojukwu and his accomplice robbed and buggled CBN offices in Calabar and PH? You dont know your hero was a thief? Have u forgotten he committed crime by recruiting underage soldiers without including one of his many children, no Achebe's child, no Okpara's child, no Azikwe's child. You are obviously senseless.
What of nthe arms being supplied by other countries that had sympathy for Biafra?
I know you are pained. It was you heartless Ojukwu that firstly stopped food for his phobia for food poisoning. Besides until Geneva UN law 1977, starvation was a weapon of war and I could remember Biafran was defeated in January 1970. UH!!!!!

cjrane: The problem with Yoruba people is that they love to live in lies and denial. Every Igbo man blame Gowon for allowing Awolowo to use the instrument of the Federal Government to pursue his wicked genocidal agenda. Gowon himself was more concerned how he could militarily win the war. He never showed he was bent on a situation to kill as many babies as possible through starvation in order to allow Yoruba take over Onitsha and Aba after the war.Gowon might be culpable for the extra judicial execution of captured Biafran soldiers by his troops where he did nothing to give Geneva convention rights to Biafran soldiers in captivity,that is for the International war crimes court to determine.But he did not really carry out genocide on the civilian population as Awolowo did and encouraged. Which is the most wicked aspect and worst war crime of that war. Killing innocent babies for the fun of it.

Awolowo was the one that went far beyond the the dictates of civilized men by not only ordering starvation of babies,but even after the war had ended, he expropriated all the Igbo money in Lagos banks. He advised the newly created Rivers State to confiscate Igbo properties so that Igbos can never recover their war loses.He tried the same thing in Lagos,but for Sir Adeniran Ogunsaya and Fani Kayode who resisted his wicked plot to confiscate Igbo properties in Lagos. He schemed out a strange way of paying Nigerian soldiers stationed in former Biafra areas to ensure they could not spend their money in Igboland.
He started this sytem of marginalization of the south east, where by any project approved for the south east was starved of funding.Promoted indigenization decree to rob other regions any stake in the Nigerian economy.

After all his wickedness, he still died like a dog and whether you guys like it or not, his evil ways must be examined to find out what led to such rabid hatred of Igbos. In that way, Nigeria shall prevent having another wicked criminal like Awolowo ever being in a position to ruin this country with his personal ethnic agenda.

So poor in reasoning, so poor in analysis. Pls try to read any book on logic or philosophy. You have never read anything about theory of cause and effect in your life. Why should Nigeria feed Biafra? That is the only question that is begging for answer now. Why? If Biafra had known it could not feed herself then she should have surrendered. Or you expect Israel to feed Iran or vice versa? Very poor tribe in reasoning. Pls blame your forefathers-Ojukwu, Azikwe, Achebe for your 2m people that died, how many of their children died? Today Achebe has for PHD holder children, same for Ojukwu but wasted your sensless Igbo follwers who could not reason.

osunmakin: katsumoto. pls can u share me ur library; especially the electronic version (i.e. if possible). my email is ooige@oauife.edu.ng

Also me. my email is femfola2000@yahoo.com

Really feel your depth of knowledge.

You are really hot and informed.

death trap. Living on the road

See projects, see vision, see Fashola. Very good, accurate in analysis, outstanding in delivering. Wished you could be our president in Nigeria.