₦airaland Forum

5DMindset:
Your level of intelligence is so enviable by Primary One kids, but I advise you look up people like me before you disgrace yourself by arguing with them, as you have just done. You need more than 2 MSc degrees to get squared with me. I am not on your level, son.

sandraa:
you should do your research dear!

Newmanluckyman:
... That's what I am saying too. But the previous administration see them as not useful. Now look at the amount that has been saved for using them.

5DMindset:
You have no idea how to communicate. That is why you are a slave to your own emotion. The governor of that State is just confused. He wants to be in the News. He wants to be seen and heard doing something. So the first idea to enter his mind, he rushes to the Press with excitement. Do you need a Press to set up a committee ? And what does he even need a Committee for ? We have Commission of Agriculture in that State and we Have Faculty of Agriculture in your University.

Let me educate you, son. It is the Duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to meet a research Team in the Agric Faculty to gather data on the topography, soil test, growth yield of specific breeds of palm and decide on the best specie. Then the data is presented to a Business Devt Unit, that is where the Ministry of Industry/Commerce comes in. You get a PPP blueprint in place and study case studies and propose the best option for the State, before presenting final findings to the Government House. The Governor looks at the gazette and approve land and make compensation available to communities. Then with this on ground, you bring in a technical partner and draw up the JV agreement.

It is during ground breaking that the Press is involved, annoucing to the world their new Agro Drive.

I do not have words to exchange with you, because you have limited knowledge of this world. Exchanging words with you should be to help you gain wisdom which you clearly lack. Which is why you insult others because you have no intelligence to share, but hatred to spread.

Do not respond to me. I have no time for those who refuse to grow mentally and emotionally.

sandraa:
i worked on that project in 2009 with one of the company mentioned.
it is very true that amount of money was spent for the dredging of the River Niger.
the problem was that there should have been maintenance job every year concurrently to maintain the dredged part of the river niger.
but trust our government with the spirit of waste.....they did not pay for it... and so the river is filled with sand again... and it needs to be dredged all over again.

i think i wrote about this in 2009 about the wastefulness of government.

positivetaught:
I taught the contract for the dredging of river Niger was awarded by yar'adua,pls can anyone recollect precisely?, let's checkmate the propaganda.

Newmanluckyman:
... If actually we have dredgers owned by NIWA lying idle in PH as claimed by Amaechi and it wasn't used by the former administration and another contract was awarded for a new sets then something most be wrong with our system. These practices are what usually gives room for colossal corruption.

marticeus:
Did GEJ awarded a dredging contract for that amount mentioned by Amaechi and was contract executed. Very simple question and simple answer, some people are just playing around the bush making us to believe that GEJ didn't do anything. Gej associates should quickly give us the answers and stop malignanlng Amaechi. G

5DMindset:
What happened to executing the project before coming to Press ? There is no feasibility study, to blueprints, no case studies not even the plan of action, yet you come to Press to air out your State's Industrial Secret, now other States Governors could just pick up the idea and execute them, if we had real governors, not these thieves that into construction of airports and gutters.

The governor announced this yesterday at the Edo State Government House in Benin when a 14-member committee set up to develop an oil palm plan for the state presented its report to him.

ocelot2006:

basty: :


This guy needs to be deported to Sambisa forest. One of the setback affecting Nigeria.

He has a point though. What's the point setting up a manufacturing facilities when critical issues facing our infrastructure and society at large (abysmal power supply, poor transport network, security issues, extremely harsh investment climate, etc) are yet to be addressed?

woodmood:

sarrki: :




Nigerian youth

Most of them don't even know the meaning of opposition

This isn't opposition.
Most comments especially on nairaland are testimonies that social media has democratized stupidity .

Idreal22:
This has being in existing for more that 15years now, it located shortly after the allen roundabout at the front of alade market, this is not a news

kaystick86:
B4 you link GEJ to this project and tag it abandon project you need to visit the site to appreciate the job done by the previous government. You also need to ask yourself why was this government silent on the project since 2015.

Each time I travel through the muritala bridge b4 lokoja, I ask myself why will GEJ from south south think of dredging the river which at the end of the day leads to the economic advancement of the north. Can a northern government thinks about this kinda of laudable project for the south south or south east of this country.

Am not a supporter of GEJ but a citizen of this government that demands for good governance no matter the party in power.

nkemjacob2:
what state is that

kaystick86:
But this is an ongoing project since maybe 2014. Why claiming responsible for what is not yours

Benekruku:

datopaper: :
Will the dredging reduce the price of foodstuff


Iranu! Rubbish!

Sigh.....


You re very dumb!

The schools you attended, if you ever went to standard one, need to refund your school fees.


Gush! You dull!

TheNextAce:
I hope wike would not say it is Rivers state money Amaechi is using

datopaper:
Will the dredging reduce the price of foodstuff


Iranu! Rubbish!

AbakalikiPress:
This is really nice.

But the Ajaokuta steel complex needs to be revived before this dredging can have any meaningful impact- otherwise they are just pouring millions of useful naira into the river Niger for absolutely Nothing.



Kogi will be most likely between West and North.

hush15:
Think am, GEJ release such amount of money since 2015 and they were able to withdraw it all at once, and it wasnt moved in a bullion van that personnels wont know about it but in private vehicle and then it has been residing in osborne tower residence since 2015 till now because am sure there was nothing like cover or dust on the money found. Cos money kept in a house since 2015 will sure smell somehow. Am sure GEJ never knew that money existed in the first place.

pacino26:
I wish most NL mentions will be like the ones we've been having. Nice outline though.
....@Seun we need a thumb-up emoticon
My definition of Kogi been landlocked is relative to the fact that it's not open to the high seas or ocean. River Niger from upper Volta isn't promoting the kind of trade we need or add anticipated by Amechi. ....Our dredging aspirations and execution ideally is a process. The longer objective is to connect all the water ways. There must be some cetral hubs with access to larger waters. River Niger should be linked to the inner water ways.....

Comparing use of pipelines to barges is completely out of the question. Pipelines are better but you know also is not working for refined products especially in the Niger Delta ....Yes, But I believe if we stay the course and see our diversification aspiration through,
each region will be incentivised to protect assets and infrastructures within their domain. Don't get me wrong, barges are good complement to moving both crude oil out and refined products in, but they cannot serve as the absolute means

Since the ministry is taking the path of direct labor, they should consider those routes mentioned.....I agree. We should have a mid-long term strategic plan that says when and how the routes will be connected

Mind you, there are other products to be exported from these areas to you know. Minerals from Ebonyi and Co. They can easily find their way out. ....Agreed. It depends on the potential volume of trade which can be stimulated by govt anyways. The approach is to have a central hub, say Onitsha and get good to be moved either by road, rail and small barges to the hub and from thence out

Cheers bro.

amazon14:
Chain Emeka u get mind come divorce the woman that gave birth to this beautiful children for u.
Nna u fall hand weela

doctokwus:
I insist that GEJ was not a colossal disaster as sane Nigerians and d world have labelled him.Rather GEJ was a curse.
If God wants to punish a people for years of collective sin, he afflicts them with a terrible curse and that's what Jonathan was to Nigeria.
Our main challenge is for us to find out what we did as a people to be afflicted with Ebele Jonathan so as not to ever witness his likes again,because any further curse,even close to GEJ wud finally sink us as a country.

Aufbauh:
Reading through Jonathan's mind from the excerpts I realized that the law of homogeneity is truly strong; A man with victim mentality will also attract like-supporters.

Blaming everyone for his failure except himself .
Thank goodness I've never fall for his hypocritical antics in the past.

GEJ is simply a misfit and a mishap.

hush15:
Abegi, think am well now. They say the apartment belongs to the wife of oke. How will NIA keep federal money in one of his wife asset? Can't you tell somethingbis fishy? By now, all senior personnel of that company that belongs to the wife of NIA boss should have been apprehended to say their part of the story except ofcourse it's a hogwash. Na only One and his wife be the directors in that company shey..
We should learn to read between the lines

This government is seriously trying to cover up something and it's because the finger is pointing back at them.

Kept federal money for covert operation in a third party apartment. WhAts covert bout that! One is playing Jesus for the government now and am sure a time will come when the real gist will spill out

darlinsval:
I think Sen. Sekibo shud just advise Gov. Wike to provide d necessary documents to begin d recoup of d Ikoyi-gate billions since d panel is already sitting. Good one frm Sen. Ekweremadu.

ehissi:
Please be a little objective in the least. It is the tradition of the EFCC of late to give press conferences stating the looted amount, where it was found, when it was found and who owns or is linked to the cash.

No official press statement of the EFCC has been released on the actual owner till date. Only speculatory statements from anonymous sources backed up with picture. Oke could have been suspended for any and many reason.

Let EFCC at least maintain their transparency by stating it was Oke who hid the cash on the orders of Jonathan; them no gree. The have left that Job for people like you who will eagerly accept anything social media throws at them.

Come to think of it, speculatory reports in blogosphere are claiming Jonathan approved the release and diversion of such funds officially. Considering how much EFCC has worked so hard to implicate Jonathan, one would have thought they would have happily dished out a press conference to implicate the more, instead of secretly misleading Nigerians via social media.

When the loot was first discovered, EFCC handle claimed the money belonged to an unnamed Abuja politician, what happened to that story and why did they refuse ti name the politician to date?

Only God knows......

989900:
'Stoopid' people everywhere!

TabletMan:
I will quote you when they are done dredging but know that my argument was based on the route they are about to dredge is thoughtless. if they are to dredge from that ajaokuta to bayelsa then I will know they mean business. Once again all the links I provided is saying otherwise from what you're saying. after the single year budget they are yet to get the required $2b that is needed to run the steel company abi did any of the link say that government have make provision for $2b ?

pacino26:
I like being realistic, the tanker accidents occurring daily in Lagos-East bound highways could reduce drastically. Vessels laden with imported goods can easily find their way in. Kogi is landlocked my brother, what gets shipped from those areas are mostly cattle and foodstuffs. Already the trucks are doing a great job.

Let's be objective and stop the propaganda on agriculture when they are still cooking Thai parboiled rice in the state house. It's not for the IOCs alone but the trade along the south.

seniorkachion:
You have got the president you deserve, but I don't deserve this shit.