₦airaland Forum

mapet:
Dangote Refinery today would have suffered near similar fate if not for the no-nonsense approach Fashola adopted as Lagos State governor. The community people started disturbing Dangote project workers. Fashola went there in person, spoke in Yoruba and told them that he's handing over Dangote and his entire team to the leaders of the community, that they must be protected, that nothing must happen or slow down their work. Right in the full glare of the Media, He further threatened that if disturbance occurs, they will see the other side of him.

The community people arrested for the murder of Mr. Disu, Managing Director of FTZ are ruthlessly being dealt with today...

naptu2:
Two interesting items on the NTA News.

The weird thing is that the NTA reporters left the most important parts of both reports until the end.


1) They reported that the Customs Service was handing over military vehicles that were seized by the Customs and the SSS at the Cameroonian border (in Adamawa State) to the United States Government. That sounded strange. Why is the Customs Service handing them over to the US?


Anyway, they showed the comptroller of Customs in the area and he was with the US consul general and someone that looked like a US defence attache. The comptroller said that the order to hand over the vehicles came from the national security adviser and he had to comply. He said some things that made it seem like the hand over process was not entirely smooth and that he didn't know why he was being asked to hand over the vehicles, but that he was doing as he was told to do and that diplomacy had prevailed. The US consul thanked the comptroller and said that although there had been some bumps on the road, but that the good relations between Nigeria and the US had prevailed.

While signing off, the NTA reporter said that the vehicles were meant for a US military operation in Niger Republic, but they were seized by the Nigerian Customs Service and the SSS at the Nigerian border with Cameroon.


2) There was a report about the Second Niger Bridge. They showed equipment at the site of the construction and interviewed people in the area who said that a lot of progress had been made. They talked about the history of the project and all of that, but, they had a telephone interview with the controller of works in the area at the end of the report and he said that they had done the piling works right across the river and they were about to start the decking, that is the roadway itself, before this strike action started.

TimFisher2:
What are you feeling like?

I don’t understand

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

PRESIDENT BUHARI PARTICIPATES IN RUSSIA-AFRICA SUMMIT IN SOCHI

President @MBuhari departs Abuja Monday to attend a three-day Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia, October 23rd – 25th, with focus on exploring and expanding opportunities in security, trade and investment, science and technology, and gas production.

During the summit, President Buhari will meet with President Vladimir Putin to further strengthen relations in security, trade and investment, and building partnership that will enhance Nigeria’s huge gas potential, following Russia’s remarkable success in gas exportation.

The summit will bring fresh perspectives on some global issues and challenges like nuclear technology, energy development, digital transformation, environment, technical security, mining and steel, education, agriculture, infrastructure and development strategies.

An African Business Forum, which will bring together African and Russian business leaders, will be held during the event to enhance Russian investments in Africa, and promote African business interest in the host country. #PMBinRussia

President @MBuhari will be accompanied by Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State, Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State and Governor Kayode Fayemi @kfayemi of Ekiti State.
#PMBinRussia

Others on the trip are: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite and Minister of State, Petroleum, Timipre Sylva. // #PMBinRussia

Ishilove:
And you just had to quote everything??

computergeek:
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CanadaOrBust:
With due respect I think it’s you who doesn’t quite grasp how Nairaland works. OP’s also use that quote thing to prevent the many people who would be quoting them from repeating their entire long write-up. That’s what it looks like in your case.
Anyway it’s tooo late. The vast majority of Nlanders won’t read any of this. Find a way to accept that most Nairalanders now believe u r a female and that this is your pic:

BlackMamba:
Good idea. Soon tourists will flock to "Silverbird ice rink and ski resort" instead of the safari. Or better still, we'll be able to send our first ice skaters to the next winter Olympics.

CanadaOrBust:
Neptu2 is a female?! Who would’a thunk it

DonroxyII:
I don't think so ...

Naptu2 can't be a she

CanadaOrBust:
Whaddyamean, her pic is right there

DonroxyII:
That ain't Naptu2 but the twitter reporter whom Naptu2 posted on Nairaland!!

like this

naptu2:
Apparently a lot of people do not know how Nairaland works.

BREAKING: Lion escapes from Kano Zoo
October 19, 2019

Kano Police Command has confirmed that a lion has escaped its enclosure at the Kano Zoological Garden.

Spokesman of the Police say a search team have since been deployed within the zoo.

No report of injury or death as at the time of filling this report.

CanadaOrBust:
Neptu2 is a female?! Who would’a thunk it

AmazingELixir:
This guy I don't like the way you write...very disjointed

agarawu23:
I got your message. But your write up is terrible

Favourchris:
Hmmm I toughy I was the only one who noticed it.... I was struggling so hard to read the article

ngwababe:
I didn't get anything biko.

like this

Ok, let’s do a thread on my time at the Nigeria-Niger border at Babban Mutum village in Katsina yesterday.

Ok, my images aren’t sending so will try when I’m back to civilization.

Anyway. Quick disclosure: this is one border, and I won’t extrapolate further than what I saw. There’s another border in Jibia, for example, but it was far from where I was. I had work there, too, but tired

One of the first things you notice in Babban Mutum: trucks everywhere. Everywhere. Loaded to the hilt with pretty much every household item you can think of.

Household items from those little plastic kettles people use to pray to buckets and plastics, to food to... everything. Just sitting there. Parked and abandoned by their drivers. My contact in the village told me these things have been stuck “there for a long while.”

We drove up to the border gate —if you can call it that. There’s two points where you can see a rope loosely tied to two blocks. One is on the Niger side, one on the Nigeria side. (I’ll post a photo when my internet lets me).

It is manned by Nigerian Customs officials though. They let me take a photo of their office. I teased them about how bored they must be because there’s absolutely nothing going on in the area now. they laughed and just said, “Everywhere is just dry.”

The closure of the border has been pretty hard on the local economy. I asked a fruit seller how business is, and he just shook his head and said, “what can we do?”

But here’s the thing: tough as it all is on their local economy, nobody I talked to is necessarily opposed to the blockade. “Before, when you pass, you just see big trailers passing with Rice. It is making people not eat our local rice.” Buhari’s messaging has been effective.

Another person said to me: “you see these trailers? Everything these people have is because of Nigeria. We are a great country Wallahi. We just don’t see it. See all these their household items. Without us they’re suffering. Now their president will do what Buhari wants.”

People I spoke to understand the blockade as leverage over Niger, smart politics, even if with what they hope is short term pain for their people.

worth noting, though, is that, for many, Niger is simply their backyard. Some people’s farms pretty much straddle both countries. My hunch is it’s easy to cross in and out of Niger with smaller quantities products. If they stop you, you just say “I’m just coming from the farm”

Lastly, one of the drivers from the trucks (I’ll share a photo in a bit) is actually from the area. He tells me he’s hopeful of a deal soon. “This na my chop. So I no go want make the border just to dey like this for long.”

I’ll post photos I took as soon as they’ll send.


Ok, let’s try and send images again. This is me at the border.
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Customs officials I met were lovely, and they very kindly let me take photos. I purposely didn’t take photos of any of the people I met.

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There’s a whole queue of trucks just parked, full of plastics and household items waiting to cross
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Saskwoods:
This is one of the tunes, but there is another one I have been looking for over a year. The Jazz tune was usually played during the LTV 8 paper review in the 80s.. Kindly let me know its title. .. Thanks in advance