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youghs:
People should not brag or post progress of their country?

Africa will hold back Nigeria. The continent, human inhabitants, has a problem with envy.

The electric vehicle industry has grown exponentially in recent years. Growth forecasts from BloombergNEF see the share of electric vehicle sales rising from 2 percent in 2018 to 35 percent in 2030.

But the growth will depend on strong supply chains, which rely on a secure and sustainable supply of raw materials, specifically minerals, and metals most of which are in large supply in Nigeria but are grossly underutilised.

Lithium ore, Nickel ore, and Cobalt, the three raw materials required for batteries used to power electric vehicles are found in large commercial quantities in different Nigerian states.

Lithium which is derived from a Greek word meaning “stone” is a very soft, silvery-white metal that smokes and sizzles if water is poured upon it. Lithium is so light that a bar of it will float on water. It also has a melting point and the highest heat capacity of any element. Hence, it is used as a coolant in some nuclear reactors and also in lubricating grease, industrial dryers, and air-conditioners, batteries, glass, medicines, and nuclear bombs.

Lithium ore is found in large quantities in Nigerian states such as Kogi, Nasarawa, Ekiti, Kwara, Cross River, Oyo, Plateau, and a few other states. Recently, Gbenga Okunlola, a Professor of Geology at the University of Ibadan, in research submitted to the World Bank, announced the discovery of over 3000 lithium pegmatite bodies across the country. Pegmatite lithium deposits, also known as hard-rock lithium deposits, can contain a number of elements, including lithium, tin, tantalum, and niobium.

There are also preliminary results that have shown that the grades of Nigerian Lithium bearing ores are comparable with grades obtained in lithium-producing mines across the world.

Nickel ore, a recent discovery in Nigeria, is reportedly in large deposits in various locations. Comet Mineral, a private mining company which holds the nickel mining licence at Wudil, Kano State said the deposit is almost pure nickel metal of between 0.1 and 5.0 mm diameter in size, grading at 90 percent nickel, as opposed to more traditional nickel, which needs to be refined to extract the metal. The Nickel balls discovered are said to grade better than 90 percent of nickel found in other countries.

Analysts say there is a potential shortfall in the global mining capacity required to extract the minerals needed to manufacture sufficient batteries to meet projected EV demand. Hence, it is a great time for countries to position themselves for the windfall in investments in countries that have developed capacity in mining these raw materials.

Analysts at Rystad, an Oslo-based global energy research firm also noted that global demand for high-grade nickel will outweigh supply by 2024. The analysts noted that while supply will continue its steady year-on-year climb to 3.4 million tonnes (Mt) in 2024 from 2.5 Mt in 2021, rising demand spurred in part by the energy transition will lead to a shortage in less than two years, with a production of 3.2 Mt. this gap will widen quickly to a deficit of 0.56 Mt by 2026.

Unfortunately, the most populous country in Africa has its attention elsewhere.

Nigeria may be the largest economy in Africa but it is largely dependent on oil export. In fact, the country realised a meagre N496 billion from solid minerals in 13 years despite the country’s huge deposits, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said in its latest audit report.

“It is very delighting to note that available report today from the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) confirms that Nigeria is endowed with over 44 mineral deposits occurring in commercial quantities in over 500 locations across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria,” Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria said recently.

However, while investors knock down doors in search of these raw materials in countries like the US and China, and in Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic, in Nigeria they remain largely untapped, and where they are being explored not much attention is given to producing them at scale for exportation purposes.

A report by the Carnegie Endowment International released in October, found that consumption of critical raw material (CRM) is projected to increase by a factor of four for graphite, five for cobalt, and eighteen for lithium by 2030; and by a factor of thirteen for graphite, fourteen for cobalt, and nearly sixty for lithium by 2050.

“The projected demand in CRMs creates opportunities for Africa to replace Asian supply chains,” the report noted.

China still continues to dominate the lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking due to continued investment and strong local and domestic demand for its lithium-ion batteries. The Asian nation hosts 80 percent of all battery cell manufacturing capacity today, with capacity expected to more than double, enough for more than 20 million electric vehicles, in the next five years, the BloombergNEF report said.

In Nigeria, the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) has done some level of exploration in lithium but experts say research needs to be conducted at par with the advanced countries.

Ref:
Frank Eleanya, Business Day

porthouse7:
u didn't read well, france will move it base to niger republic

France repositioning in Niger is not good News for Nigeria.

How Nigeria can leverage lithium, others for improved earnings, green energy ’

As nations around the world transition to clean energy and electric vehicles, growing demand for Lithium and other minerals offers Nigeria a new opportunity to improve its non-oil earnings and embrace the energy of the future.

While oil is expected to remain relevant and even aid transition, earnings from lithium exploration, which is believed to be in commercial quantity in some parts of Nigeria can help the country address its revenue problems.

Already, many development finance institutions are beginning to restrict funding for investments in fossil fuels, with many developing economies likely to suffer from the action.

Despite the opportunities, The Guardian gathered that the country lacks data and intensive exploration to harness its resources.

Experts are of the opinion that in the next two years, there is going to be a major scramble for lithium while calling for speedy actions to attract investors in the industry.

They expressed worry that there are no ongoing lithium-based projects in Nigeria, unlike some other African countries, a situation they considered detrimental to the economy.

A Professor of Geology at the University of Ibadan, Gbenga Okunlola in research submitted to the World Bank recently, announced the discovery of over 3000 lithium pegmatite bodies across the country.

Meanwhile, preliminary results have shown that the grades of Nigerian Lithium bearing ores (Spodumene) are comparable with grades obtained in lithium producing mines across the world.

The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development through the office of the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency also told The Guardian that there have been several enquiries by investors for information and data.

Speaking with The Guardian, Professor Okunlola who is also the president of the Geological Society of Africa said, “We need to do more exploration as Nigeria has high potential. We have numerous pegmatite bodies that host potentially lithium-based minerals.


“The lithium potential that we have in Nasarawa state is huge. Some parts of the South East called Akampa area, close to Calabar state and also some areas in the South West around Oke Ogun in Oyo State are blessed with this potential. But the volume needs to be quantified and exploration targeted to some of those areas.

“Mining world is about identifying projects, this means exploration to mine development and refining. We should now begin to focus on that in Nigeria. We need to start focusing on value chain development. There are lots of these future minerals and if we waste them with the way people are just doing exploration haphazardly the world will leave us behind.”

He called for a concerted programme in identifying strategic minerals in the country that could serve as minerals of the future.

“There is going to be a major scramble for lithium in the next two years, between now and 2050, it’s going to be one of the important minerals. China is already almost capturing everything in the world.


“Of course, the other mineral of the future is Cobalt, which is highly abundant in Congo. The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies 77 per cent of the cobalt of the world. If they can get their politics right in that country it’s going to be one of the richest countries in the world. We need to look at some of these minerals in Nigeria”, he added.

Also, an Exploration Geologist, Agoro Abdulraheem corroborated that Lithium is key to the future of green technology and Nigeria stands a high chance of benefitting from the green technology revolution because it is an emerging technology.

He added that this year, the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) department endowed £318 million under the Faraday Battery Challenge. Similarly, the Advance Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the United States devoted much of its 2021 $47 million funding to these batteries.

Abdulraheem said private researchers and various research agencies such as Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) have done some level of exploration but much still needs to be done to be at the research par with other leading countries.


“All that is expected is to build an advisory council of experts from the multitudes of these scholars. Just like our coffee and cocoa, are being exported with no value addition; lithium minerals are also being exported raw. Localization of technology through government agencies like NOTAP should be on its way. Microprocessing centres to beneficiate and purify could be set-up.”

He identified the absence of a data repository and inaccessibility of data, Environmental implications, low investment for detailed exploration, poor information dissemination to the community of investors and insecurities hampering exploration as major challenges in the sector.

“Researchers need to know the current state of research on lithium chemistry to consolidate the current gains.”

To address these challenges, Abdulraheem urged the government to address issues around insecurities, ethics and environmental; create a workable blueprint for value addition and encourage local investors through Central Bank Nigeria interventions.


He also urged re-alignment of current policies to allow local and foreign investors to invest, identify the means for technological transfer of skills and technology relevant to extraction, beneficiation and production and disseminate information to a wide spectrum of the potential audience.

Director-General, Nigerian Geological Survey Agency, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) Dr. Abdulrazaq Garba said the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development had been adopting a forward-thinking approach by developing strategic minerals of the future.

He added that as part of efforts to join the fourth industrial revolution, the MMSD commenced an ambitious exploration project through the NGSA tagged: National Integrated Mineral Exploration Projects (NIMEP).

“The project by its design is exploring five broad mineral commodities amongst which are minerals of the future of which Lithium is inclusive.”


He added that Nigeria has not been able to figure out the volume of lithium in the country as exploration is carried out in stages.

“From the nature of lithium mineralization in Nigeria, which shows they are basically hosted within pegmatites and different from those associated with lithium brines. This by extension indicates that exploring such a mineralization style is a complex process and requires time, thus the process of ascertaining the resource potential of lithium in the country is still ongoing in some pockets of locations, however other occurrences have been reported in a number of places across the country.

“I have mentioned earlier on that the NIMEP project is investigating some occurrences across the country and drilling is almost completed on the Pegmatites in Ekiti State and due to commence in Kwara State. Drilling is ongoing in the pegmatites in parts of Nasarawa State.


He explained further, “The NGSA carried out an assessment of the graphite occurrence in part of Kaduna and Bauchi States. Essentially what the Federal Government has been doing through MMSD and its Agencies is to rapidly generate a dataset that will attract investment into the sector and de-risk the sector for investment. The exploration project is part of the efforts of the government to make the sector more attractive to investors and thus contribute to the development and growth of the country’s nascent mining industry.

“Since the country doesn’t want to miss out from the emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution, that is why it is investing heavily in the exploration for low-carbon and green technology minerals like lithium and the rest, and given the results obtained so far from the exploration projects embarked on by the MMSD and its Agencies including the readiness of the Federal Government to diversify the economy through mining, Nigeria will surely not be left behind in the new push for low-carbon emission. The Government is also making efforts and encouraging the citizenry to embrace the change.”

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By Kehinde Olatunji
19 May 2021

The Guardian

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Does Nigeria have any organisational body responsible for monitoring Media and Broadcasting Standard?

It just seems to me that newspapers in Nigeria are limited by imagination only

It used to be that any world famous author's bio had the obligatory reference such as, I was once a newspaper corispondant for six years or I was ten years top editor for the Spectator etc. Now,however, it is straight to the point and we have budding novelists not journalists working for newspapers in Nigeria.

It mightn't be all that bad for Nigeria if occasionally these so-called reporters made up positive news because, contrary to adage, good news also sells; especially, fantastic once such as, "A Nigerian Has just Made Breakthrough in Fission Energy!", instead of, "A Nigerian Youth Pretending to Be a Zombie, attacked, killed and Eat, the Chauffeur of the British High Commissioner!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_G6VQL1nqs



A firm planning mass production of electric car batteries in the UK has secured government funding for its proposed factory in Northumberland.

Britishvolt announced plans for the so-called gigafactory in Cambois two years ago, saying it would create 3,000 jobs.

The BBC understands the government has committed about £100m through its Automotive Transformation Fund.

Britishvolt also announced backing from investors Tritax and Abrdn, that should unlock about £1.7bn in private funding.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng described the support as "reindustrialisation". He told the BBC's Today programme that the "huge investment" would give people the "opportunity to have highly-paid, well-paid, high-skilled jobs".

"We're bringing industry, we're bringing manufacturing to an area that has been under invested in frankly and we're bringing thousands of jobs," he said.

"Well paid jobs, which represent a huge economic opportunity for people in this area. This is exactly what levelling up looks like. "

Ultimately women make or break society, culture, groups, Nations etc. When black men disrespect black woman, black mothers are the origin of this. Support of a solid Family structure helps in reinforcing thire influence and makes it easier but women are the key. If African American mothers keep going on about the "fine hair" v "bad hair" of thire kids or the fair complexion (high yella) or grey eyes and whatnot, they shouldn't be surprised if thire boys grow into men that value women (often None blacks) that posses those physical attributes thire mothers crooned about when they were young. And young black girls grow up into women that are subconsciously inferior then go on to inadvertently reinforce those aspirational values, negative to esteem, in thire own young children by repeating the mistake thire mothers thoughtlessly made.

If it wasn't for the great work and quality of Nigerian women in thire roles as mothers, Nigeria men wouldn't be the great men/ role models they are today. The very men women of other races or nations appreciate. Authentic Nigeria men want to be responsible for thire girlfriends and wives. They want to buy things for them, respect and make them feel special. If this leads to marriage then going on to become responsible fathers.

Today, Nigerian men are the last set of black men that respect black women and see black women as beautiful. It is no wonder that those that wish to finally break the backbone of the black race, rendering blacks as nothing more than consumers of other races in the form of worshiping them are now insulting Nigerian women and trying to brainwash Nigerian men into disrespecting and disregarding them. However, if Nigerians hold true to thire culture, Nigerian girls will grow up to be the Nigeria mothers that mold and shape great Nigerians.

Omotosho1090905:
No one will blame all this journalist now o
I swear there own down even pass Nollywood
Fake news every where since we don't have any way to prove
Chai this social media I just hope we can use if for a better cause

social media needs regulating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhV8k5UmKUg

let's put it like this, if we could somehow brainwash these terrorists groups to wholeheartedly and fanatically believe in amulets, and to place their fate in its power, Nigeria army will decisively defeat them. This would be assured if Nigeria had units of fighting men made up of sceptics.

The above is my longwinded way of saying that it would pay those vested in Nigeria faltering badly in their campaigns against these insurgencies /terrorists if, predominantly, Nigeria army ranks placed fate in juju or derived from it the type of foolhardy courage that causes them to fight in disarray.

zoedew:
I wonder ooo! The other day a European expat friend of mine told me he would rather spend his vacation in Nigeria than travel home. I asked to know the reason for such decision. His response was that the level of mafiosi violent crime in his European home country made Nigeria a better option!!

Those responsible for making Nigerians believe that they are Especially bad people today, shouldn't complain when Nigerians begin to view themselves as a Special Breed of Peoples' tomorrow, different and better than other Africans.

zoedew:
I will disagree with you. Humans everywhere on the globe have an inclination to do evil but the measure of deterrence put in place by The State keeps them at bay. There are more than enough NSCDC personnel to protect railway assets. The NRC run by the Colonialists did that effectively.

Indeed.

How Nigerians came to view themselves as especially deviant compared to the rest of the world is truly more baffling to me than the nature of existence.

Nigeria is safe — American man declares, as he visits Ekiti State Nigeria

Hmmph, he wont say this for long because he will soon be targeted online by the organisation set up by one of your neighboring West African nation. If he is influential enough, he will be bombard by the agents of that country who will inform him with sentiments along the lines of , "we are concerned Nigerians and you must not say Nigeria is safe, or anything positive because by doing so you're encouraging bad governance".

The people of the West African country i'm writing about have been active like this for some time now. The idiotic nation of which i'm referring wants to achieve economic progress and dominance of the region through pulling down Nigeria instead of through hard work, innovations and industrialization. They have the mentality that Nigerians generally don't have. They have the, "Undermining in order to Win" mentality. Nigerians have the "Overcoming in order to Win" mentality.

The Nazis lost.

Nazi, Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun assisted America in landing man on moon through science of rocketry not through spells or human skulls placed at the center of images of stars scrawled on the ground in the shadow of candle lights .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8

ThinkSmarter:
It is not about Nigeria, it is about your tribal name so difficult to pronounce.
I am Igbo but i find names of Edo/benin, urhobo/isoko, Tiv and some Ijaw name difficult to pronounce.

It's not this either. Op was being mischievous since I don't want to label him a liar in what he means to imply. He intends to imply or feed the notion that there is some universal boycotting of Nigerians in line with what he may secretly desire.

Truth is, Muslims, Asians, Africans generally all have on many occasions complained of this same issue. The implication is that UK employers are prejudiced against minorities and ethnic groups. The applicant's name identifies thire gender, fate, nationality, origins and so on. Applicants that are from minority ethnic backgrounds have allged , occasionally, that they tend to receive more invitations for job interviews when they change their names to European sounding ones than they do when they use thire ethnic or Islamic names.

An applicant, having thusly broken through the interview invitation barrier, may then go on to so impress the Employer at the interview they get the job in spite of the Employer's prior prejudices and reticence that the applicant was deceptive by altering thire names in the first instance.

Valkrie:
Ah beg loud the volume...!! Our people always forming civilised.. !! Lots happened spiritually during the second World War...The nazis where playing with a lot of things...!!

Leave oyibo people, they are way smarter to know the other side exist and not to be toyed with.. !!!

Five soldiers from 302 GS of the Nigeria Army Onitsha lost their live due MRAP failure:


If the authority was yours and it was possible , would you, on the grounds of juju, recommend no investigation be carried out (we save money ) to determine whether manufacturer/suppliers sold Nigeria substandard equipment or indeed if through incompetence or misappropriation we ended up purchasing cheaper equipment set aside by manufactures in the manufacturing process due to "minor" defects ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5n8-2iVJNM

The Youtuber above is a real trying man, as are many of the others, they all deserve support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW7vqzLJtzU

All Nigeria stakeholders in security, and lives and property safeguarding, should do same . Resolving these Hearders V Farmers conflict FINALLY is best for all concerned - Fulani, Igbo, Hearder, Farmer , Nigeria and even, ultimately, those business people involved with owning, breeding and trading cattle.

If the news we all followed is true, Cow meat in Nigeria is literally Blood Meat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwWQqvpoybk

Transport and Logistics, the enormous global vehicle manufacturing industries -arguably a sector on which the West has acquired its foundational wealth and world domination -are all ether now pivoting towards electrification or have already. This seems like an epochal change unforgivable for Nigeria to miss out on. Vehicle Battery manufacturers cant go wrong. Large or small all are going to profit in some capacity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hLcg32Idg

Nobody is stupid enough to ask such a demeaning question unless for purposes I've outlined in my earlier posts. Who wants to leave Africa for Europe with the intention of remaining a lifetime Gateman (Security Officer) ?. Even an unpaid position as Bank Manger in any Nation, is CV gold, guaranteed to impress any objective employer abroad.

bitbillionaire:
[s]Nigerians with their incurably twisted, dark and negative mentality[/s]. I see this type of question as an insult to the great bank managers in Nigeria and an insult to Nigeria as a country and Nigerians in general.

If I'm able to rise to the level of a bank manager in our great country Nigeria nothing can make me accept even a tellers job in the US, not to talk of a gateman! Are you sick or something?

Insult and demarketing of Nigeria is of course the aim but using childish Misdirecting and Trojan tactics: therefore Nigerians won't know what's actually happening because they will put it all down to some other Nigerians, for example IPOB, The Opposition, rank and file Disgruntled citizens, throwing shade at Buhari, his party, the country and so on....

I wonder when Nigerians, possibly the smartest blacks in the world, will realise that your country is being de-marketed by another African nation that prides itself as among the founding fathers of pan Africanism and yet are employing the same tools used by whites in thire conquests and ultimate ruination of Africa and all things associated with being of black Africa origen world wide?

These sorts of deeming questions are part of this terribly treacherous African nations's strategy. Don't be fooled by the unweary/ unintentional participation of some Nigerians due to legitimate concerns and rightful political queries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vg6uDNknV0

Another way of looking at this labeling of Nigeria youths as ritualists, is social media's need for De-marketing-Nigeria-content, disenfranchising them. Youth is being made out as unfit to govern Nigeria. In other words, what hope for the future, if youth is worst than the current elder statesmen and women.

Another way of looking at the Justice System i.e the police, courts, jail's etc is that they exist to put away antisocial law breaking idiotic miscreants whatever their belief. Wherever the judicial system fails, people start waisting thire time analysing why individuals act as they do, blaming societies morals, and generally talking here and there and resolve nothing.

Charly Boy: Aside Sex, Most Girls Have Nothing To Offer A Man

Problem with this logic is that Sex is a very big one thing.