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0lumide: Simple!

Power!!!!!!!!!!!! And if Dangote must set up his own power generation to maintain production, that adds to cost of production!

Either power is the problem or Dangote is a born thief and economic saboteur not an entrepreneur.

The production of cement in Nigeria requires limstone right? Now, we have abundance of that in Nigeria and Dangote owns many of our limestone deposits in Nigeria(Corruption). Raw materials are not expensive for him to get.

If true true dangote cement price is justified by the cost of production, then Dangote shouldn't be producing cement because he is wasting resources to do so. We should be allowed to import cement which will cost us only 20% of what Dangote is charging us.

Also speaking at the occasion, the Group Managing Director, NAFHC, Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Kure, said the aircraft would commence operations with the initial client base of mainly Armed Forces, Police and other para-military force.

Symphony007: did you actually get my point? Yes, the buck stops with the president but he does'nt get to everywhere at once, you do notexpect the president who is running the nation to know the state of abuja stadium, that is the job of the sports ministry, and if the sports ministry is'nt doing their job, a members of the national assembly whoes duties are to be more in touch with basic problems will bring this to the floor, where it will be reffered to the commitees on sports and these commitees will summon the sports minister for hearings and send a letter to the president. And then it is left to him to discipline his ministry of sports for such negligence. This is basic government principles of oversight taught in high schools!!

0lumide: So this is why they decided "increase" fuel price.

My problem with Dangote is his greed.


All of you singing Dangote's praise are illiterates and know nothing about economics and especially efficiency.

Let's take cement for instance.

Importing cement to Nigeria costs 350 per bag but we pay 1500 per bag manufacturing it in Nigeria.

Now, what this means is that Nigeria can not efficiently produce cement thereby our best choice is to import the commodity because we are wasting scarce resources in producing cement.

But Dangote through his political stooges in government was able to make sure Nigerians can't import cement and can only buy from him and the other guys who share just 10% of cement production in Nigeria.

Now, house prices up, Nigerians will be spending more on something we can't efficiently produce. Money that could have been used by household sector to buy other commodities which will help the respective industries of those commodities grow are been spent on a useless cement.

Dangote should be one of the first people to be killed should Nigeria have a bloody revolution. He is part of the elites destroying this nation!! No idea of economics, he is not patriotic enough to produce what we can efficiently produce instead he is producing what will give him money.

Efficiency is the core reason for pricing and production decision. Nigeria doesn't need a cement industry when the resources could be used to produce commodities we are more efficient in producing.

Dangote is nothing but a Government's baby and he enjoyed the corruption in the country.!!! Buncha thieves!!

Symphony007: let me lecture you and other nigerians how government work. The president is one man, and the federal government is a gaint machine. Do you expect him with all the problems on his plate to have an eagles view on everything? No! That's why we have legislators, who do that oversight work for him together the national assembly has more than 400 members are hundreds of commitees on different issues. Why have'nt they been called out for failing to do their job by seeing problems, calling public hearings and bringing to issues to the national discussion and to the presidents attention? Where was the house and senate commitees on police affairs all these years when the police college was falling apart? Where is the house and senate commitee on sports when the abuja stadium is crumbling. Nigerians have encouraged the laziness of a group of people that consume 25% of our budget, because they know they can never be blamed for anything. Their is always the gainst piniada called jonathan who everyone will take a swipe at when things go wrong.

Symphony007: i honestly don't know what nigerians won't blame this president for, please tomorrow if you can't tie your shoe, please blame jonathan. You expect the president who is dealing with boko haram,mend,economy,foreign affairsetc to also be aware of the state of abuja stadium? What does the NFF do? Or the sports ministry? Why can't the national assembly sports commitee call hearing on why the stadium is like that. Nigerians are just so ignorant to seperation of power and duty. All they know is if anything is bad, it's jonathan fault.

miqos02: so is he a mad man

ypzilanti: What exactly is 'using others to enrich yourself?'. Do people not work for Zuckerberg and Gates? Gates was also accused of monopoly and charged to US court in the 90s. Rockerfeller was prosecuted in similar fashion too. Billionaires in business are driven by raw ambition to dominate the sectors they operate in. There is no other way. The so called angel investors do not just drop from the sky and give money to you unless they sense progress in your business.

The following semester in January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident however subsequent events have revealed this to be untrue.[26] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.

Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to the Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling. The agreed settlement was for 1.2m Facebook shares which were worth $300m at Facebook's IPO.

dumodust: These politicians are all the same so stop the comparisons... Lagos state just recently hosted the national sports festival in teslim balogun stadium so the recent renovation and clean up will still be in place. Maybe we should compare national stadium to teslim balogun stadium when we're hosting world cup or something else big

VolvoS60: ^^^^
Accused by who?

(Although I do agree that there are several sides to a story and its prudent to get as much info as possible from all sides.)

okpara festus: federal govt has too much load on it so that is the result you will get.Am of the opinion that govt has no business in business, they should just sit back and collect tax and revenue.

ypzilanti: Dangotes businesses have created other billionaires and millionaires. His staff and distributors of his products are doing really well. How do you think millionaires are made? By government sharing out money? People are so ignorant. What we need in Nigeria is more billionaires in the mould of Dangote...rich people who actually produce something that others can key into and make some change too. The progress South Korea is experiencing today is because of about 5 'Dangotes' in that country. The families that own Hyndai, Daewoo, Samsung,etc, made korea what it is today.

OAM4J: Sorry for late response. You've been unbanned and you post is now visible

The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Persian: سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی ‎ / Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelāb-e Eslāmi, or Sepāh for short), often called Revolutionary Guards, is a branch of Iran's military, founded after the Iranian revolution.[1] Whereas the regular military (artesh) defends Iran's borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard (pasdaran) is intended to protect the country's Islamic system.[2] According to some outside observers, it is intended to prevent internal dissident and military uprisings.[1]

The IRGC has roughly 125,000 military personnel including ground, aerospace and naval forces. Its naval forces are now the primary forces tasked with operational control of the Persian Gulf.[3] It also controls the paramilitary Basij militia which has about 90,000 active personnel,[4] and in recent years has developed into a "multibillion-dollar business empire,"[5] and is reportedly the "third-wealthiest organization in Iran" after the National Iranian Oil Company and the Imam Reza Endowment.

IRGC first expanded into commercial activity through informal social networking of veterans and former officials. IRGC officials confiscated assets of many refugees who had fled Iran after the fall of the Bani-sadr regime. It is now a vast conglomerate, controlling Iran’s missile batteries and nuclear program but also a multibillion-dollar business empire reaching almost all economic sectors.[5] It is thought to control around a third of Iran's economy through a series of subsidiaries and trusts.[59]

The Los Angeles Times estimates that IRGC has ties to over one hundred companies, with its annual revenue exceeding $12 billion in business and construction.[60] IRGC has been awarded billions of dollars in contracts in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, as well as major infrastructure projects.[61] The following commercial entities have been named by the United States as owned or controlled by the IRGC and its leaders.[62]

▪ Khatam al-Anbia Construction Headquarters, the IRGC’s major engineering arm & one of Iran’s largest contractors employing about 25,000 engineers and staff on military (70%) and non-military (30%) projects[51] worth over $7 billion in 2006.[62]

▪ Oriental Oil Kish (oil and gas industry),[63]

▪ Ghorb Nooh,[63]

▪ Sahel Consultant Engineering,[63]

▪ Ghorb Karbala,[63]

▪ Sepasad Engineering Co., (excavation and tunnel construction).[63]

▪ Omran Sahel,[63]

▪ Hara Company (excavation and tunnel construction),[63]

▪ Gharargahe Sazandegi Ghaem.[63]

▪ Kayson Construction Company ( Foreign Branch, active in Venezuela)

In September 2009, the Government of Iran sold 51% of the shares of the Telecommunication Company of Iran to the Mobin Trust Consortium (Etemad-e-Mobin), a group affiliated with the Guards, for the sum of $7.8 billion. This was the largest transaction on the Tehran Stock Exchange in history.[64][65] IRGC also owns 45% participation in automotive Bahman Group and has a majority stake in Iran's naval giant SADRA through Khatam al-Anbia.[51][66]

The IRGC also exerts influence over bonyads, wealthy, non-governmental ostensibly charitable foundations controlled by key clerics. The pattern of revolutionary foundations mimics the style of informal and extralegal economic networks from the time of the Shah. Their development started in the early 1990s, gathered pace over the next decade, and accelerated even more with many lucrative no-bid contracts from the Ahmadinejad presidency.[63] The IRGC exerts informal, but real, influence over many such organizations including:

▪ Bonyad-e Mostazafen va Janbazan (Foundation of the Oppressed or The Mostazafan Foundation)

▪ Bonyad Shahid va Omur-e Janbazan (Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs)[51]

Akainzo: Do NOT spread falsehood. The Iranian military/Airforce does NOT engage in commercial transportation.

That most pilots in the Iranian airline operations were former pilots in the Iranian Airforce is not the same as engaging in commercial transportation.

In some countries such as Iran, the military engages in commercial ventures.

fkaz: Which faction of boko haram would they dialogue with?

Because Niger-delta militant had different leaders at that time, henry okah was just one among many.

wengerjay: LET THEM SAY!!!
JEALOUSY!!!!