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Why Does This Type of News NEVER Reach Nairaland?

What type of forum is this?

The clamour everywhere now is for African countries to process their raw materials here in Africa, and not just export.

Okay, your President just built the largest lithium processing plant in all AFRICA, costing over $250 million, and now employing thousands of Nigerians directly and indirectly, and everywhere is quiet.

It's as if it didn't happen!

What kind of country is this?

Where is Oseni Rufai?

Didn't he see this one to report?

This is Lithium!

Rare Earth Minerals!! The source of tomorrow's industries!

This is what industrialisation is all about.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ekk9vYQvs?is=EQEORQkUJO2bE1oo56

rossipki:
Why Does This Type of News NEVER Reach Nairaland?

What type of forum is this?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ekk9vYQvs?is=EQEORQkUJO2bE1oo

...... because seun want to become information minister under Obi. He's not hiding his support for the obedient.

I was surprised seeing a so called pastor cursing people and with 3 comments it's on front page.

Liar! Tinubu did not build that plant. The Chinese did.

Liar! Tinubu did not build that plant. The Chinese did. The governor of Nasarawa state made several trips to China facilitate the construction of that plant. Not a single government kobo was contributed to that plant. That firm is 100% owned by the Chinese. The factory has been operating for several months now.

OP, we know your master has no achievements and you have to steal but try and be less obvious about it.

every one is quite because that is not what Nigerians are fighting and crying to the government to do. what Nigerians needs now are security, accommodation, food, transport. the Government should role out policy to reduce the cost of living. nothing more nothing less.

rossipki:
Why Does This Type of News NEVER Reach Nairaland?

What type of forum is this?

The clamour everywhere now is for African countries to process their raw materials here in Africa, and not just export.

Okay, your President just built the largest lithium battery plant in all AFRICA, costing over $250 million,

The president ddnt build anything…A Chinese company did

and it’s not a lithium battery plant because lithium battery is not produced there…

It’s a lithium ore processing plant…. The lithium concentrate they generate there is being taken to their own country to manufacture lithium batteries and to boost their countries green energy industry…..

Its the same crude oil movie playing all over again… where we have crude oil but suffer fuel where oil companies come and take our crude oil for cheap money ….while we import fuel, diesel and kerosene for decades

It’s not translating to anything to the common man, because govt that generates revenue from this companies keeps the monies in their pocket

Because good news hardly sell

Dogalmighty17:
Liar! Tinubu did not build that plant. The Chinese did. The governor of Nasarawa state made several trips to China facilitate the construction of that plant. Not a single government kobo was contributed to that plant. That firm is 100% owned by the Chinese. The factory has been operating for several months now.

OP, we know your master has no achievements and you have to steal but try and be less obvious about it.

This is absolute nonsense!

Of course it was built by private firms!!

Must Tinubu use government money to build battery plants?

Are we Communist Russia?

We're a capitalist economy! The private sector is what will industrialize this country, not government, whose primary role is policy development and regulatory oversight.

None of this could have happened without Tinubu’s economic reform agenda and Nigeria First policies.


This report is straight from AI:

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President Bola Tinubu was officially involved in the Nasarawa lithium plant through regulatory policy backing and as the head of the commissioning authority.

Key Areas of Involvement

• The Commissioning Authority: President Tinubu officially inaugurated the facility via the nation's leader, Vice President Kashim Shettima.

• Value-Addition Policy Framework:

According to Minister of Solid Minerals Development Dr. Dele Alake, the mega-facility is a direct realization of the federal policy framework under the Renewed Hope Agenda, which restricts mining licenses and bars the export of raw, unprocessed solid minerals.

• Direct Investor Engagement:

President Tinubu met directly with Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule and visiting executives from Chinese mining and battery firms in Abuja to champion Nigeria's goal of becoming an electric vehicle battery and solar panel manufacturing hub.

The lithium plant provides significant economic, industrial, and strategic advantages to Nigeria.

For decades, the nation followed an extractive model—shipping raw resources out and letting foreign entities retain the profits. This plant fundamentally shifts that dynamic.

1. Massive Revenue Retention & Value Addition

• Higher Export Prices: Refining lithium ore into a high-value concentrate locally means Nigeria exports a premium product rather than raw dirt, drastically increasing the value of its mineral exports.

• State Revenue Growth: Nasarawa State is on track to earn up to $100 million in direct lithium revenue by the end of the year. The state government is actively utilizing these funds to construct critical regional infrastructure, such as the Agwada-Udege and Nasarawa-Ara roads.

2. Job Creation and Skill Building

• Immediate Employment: The plant has already generated 1,000+ direct jobs and 2,000+ indirect jobs in transportation, logistics, and supply chains for local Nigerians.

• Technology Transfer: Working alongside top-tier global operators like Jiuling and Canmax provides Nigerian engineers and technicians with direct hands-on experience in advanced chemical processing and green energy technology.

3. Concrete Execution of the "Resource Nationalism" Policy

• Enforcing the Raw Export Ban: The plant serves as the ultimate proof-of-concept for Nigeria’s strict policy requiring a minimum of 30% local value addition before any solid minerals can leave the country.

• Attracting Serious Investors: Showing that a mega-facility can successfully operate in the Endo community signals to global mining companies that Nigeria is a stable, capable destination for large-scale industrial investments.

4. Direct Entry into the Clean Energy Supply Chain

• Global Strategic Positioning: The UN recently selected Nigeria as one of the first countries to receive targeted country-level support for critical energy transition minerals.

• The Blueprint for Battery Manufacturing: Operating a local processing facility lays the groundwork for the ultimate goal: transitioning from raw mining to manufacturing lithium batteries, solar tech, and electric vehicle components directly within the country.


- AI

Na private business

rossipki:
Why Does This Type of News NEVER Reach Nairaland?

What type of forum is this?

The clamour everywhere now is for African countries to process their raw materials here in Africa, and not just export.

Okay, your President just built the largest lithium battery plant in all AFRICA, costing over $250 million, and now employing thousands of Nigerians directly and indirectly, and everywhere is quiet.

It's as if it didn't happen!

What kind of country is this?

Where is Oseni Rufai?

Didn't he see this one to report?

This is Lithium!

Rare Earth Minerals!! The source of tomorrow's industries!

This is what industrialisation is all about.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ekk9vYQvs?is=EQEORQkUJO2bE1oo

moh1:
every one is quite because that is not what Nigerians are fighting and crying to the government to do. what Nigerians needs now are security, accommodation, food, transport. the Government should role out policy to reduce the cost of living. nothing more nothing less.

ALL THOSE THINGS COST MONEY!!!

We don't earn enough from that oil to provide all those things to every Nigerian, even with zero corruption.

Our budget is around $50 billion a year for 250 million people

USA, with a similar population of 320 million, has a budget of $8 trillion.

WHY?

Because they have very large numbers of manufacturing and financial companies from all over the world there, paying corporate taxes that run into trillions of dollars a year into government coffers.

So to build up your wealth as a country, you need INDUSTRIES... MANY!!!

From all over the world!!!

They employ the masses with good jobs, and pay corporate taxes to government.

The US produces more oil than Nigeria. Do you see them even talking about it?

Nope. Their economy is sufficiently diversified that the oil income is just a tiny part of it.

That's where Nigeria is headed under Tinubu - Economic Diversification at Scale.

Let me explain that set up for you.

I appreciate the investors but that's a Lithium concentration plant. They upgrade lithium from a lower percentage to SC6 (which is an industry-standard grade of spodumene concentrate containing 6% lithium oxide (Li₂O), which serves as a primary raw material for producing battery-grade lithium chemicals.) Then they export that to their country for use.

Mind you, there are states of Nigeria that produce 6% lithium raw ore from the ground like OYO, Kaduna,Kwara and Niger states.

In summary it's still export of raw materials. We need to build plants that will produce the batteries here, that is where we win.

Kudos to everyone.

No be only Tinubu built....what about Amoda discovered lithium battery in Nigeria?

WatchYourSix:
and it’s not a lithium battery plant because lithium battery is not produced there…

It’s a lithium ore processing plant….

Corrected.

The lithium concentrate they generate there is being taken to their own country to manufacture lithium batteries and to boost their countries green energy industry…..

Its the same crude oil movie playing all over again… where we have crude oil but suffer fuel where oil companies come out crude oil for cheap money away….while we import fuel, diesel and kerosene for decades

Garbage.

The plant is the lithium equivalent of a refinery for crude oil.

"Higher Export Prices: Refining lithium ore into a high-value concentrate locally means Nigeria exports a premium product rather than raw dirt, drastically increasing the value of its mineral exports.." - AI

It’s not translating to anything to the common man, because govt that generates revenue from this companies keeps the monies in their pocket

SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING RUBBISH.

THE INFRASTRUCTURE YOU SEE AROUND YOU TODAY, DID IT DROP FROM THE SKY?

If the money is all being "pocketed", why isn't everywhere bush?

Plus...ARE THOUSANDS OF NIGERIANS NOT ALREADY EMPLOYED DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY BY THE PLANT?

Are growing employment opportunities not beneficial to the "common man"?

@Op, Unfortunately Good News hardly “sell” Online, even in mainstream media.

However as others have clarified, the plant was built by a Chinese company

Ideyontop:
Let me explain that set up for you.

I appreciate the investors but that's a Lithium concentration plant. They upgrade lithium from a lower percentage to SC6 (which is an industry-standard grade of spodumene concentrate containing 6% lithium oxide (Li₂O), which serves as a primary raw material for producing battery-grade lithium chemicals.) Then they export that to their country for use.

Mind you, there are states of Nigeria that produce 6% lithium raw ore from the ground like OYO, Kaduna,Kwara and Niger states.

In summary it's still export of raw materials. We need to build plants that will produce the batteries here, that is where we win.

Kudos to everyone.

Good clarification.

rossipki:
Corrected.



Garbage.

The plant is the lithium equivalent of a refinery for crude oil.

"Higher Export Prices: Refining lithium ore into a high-value concentrate locally means Nigeria exports a premium product rather than raw dirt, drastically increasing the value of its mineral exports.."




SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING RUBBISH.

THE INFRASTRUCTURE YOU SEE AROUND YOU TODAY, DID IT DROP FROM THE SKY?

ARE THOUSANDS OF NIGERIANS NOT ALREADY EMPLOYED DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY BY THE PLANT?

Insults will not make ur point sit well sir…. Which significant infrastructure is the common man benefiting since this government took power?

Even president has been telling the people to please ensure the suffering …… so what are u trying to explain on behalf of the govt??.. even if they paid u for sycophancy, u should do it with sense

Dogalmighty17:
Liar! Tinubu did not build that plant. The Chinese did. The governor of Nasarawa state made several trips to China facilitate the construction of that plant. Not a single government kobo was contributed to that plant. That firm is 100% owned by the Chinese. The factory has been operating for several months now.

OP, we know your master has no achievements and you have to steal but try and be less obvious about it.

You no sabi the achievement bandits again? After stealing Fashola's achievements as governor to run with, they are now stealing Seyi Makinde and other governor's achievement because Tinubu has nothing to campaign with.

WatchYourSix:
Insults will not make ur point sit well sir…. Which significant infrastructure is the common man benefiting since this government took power?

INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IS EXPLODING ACROSS THE STATES SINCE THE END OF FUEL SUBSIDIES AND VAST RISES IN FEDERAL ALLOCATIONS TO THE STATES.

Leave your village or backwater neighbourhood and travel round the country, because you know nothing!

IN LAGOS ALONE, perhaps a million people or more now travel around the city daily in air-conditioned trains, greatly improving the transport system there..

rossipki:
INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IS EXPLODING ACROSS THE STATES SINCE THE END OF FUEL SUBSIDIES AND VAST RISES IN FEDERAL ALLOCATIONS TO THE STATES.

Leave your village or backwater neighbourhood and travel round the country, because you know nothing!

IN LAGOS ALONE, perhaps a million people or more now travel around the city daily in air-conditioned trains, greatly improving the transport system there..

lol… all u are saying is infrastructure is exploding…

U cant even back up your claim… even the president is begging Nigerians to please endure the suffering .. but u think u can lie for those that aren’t lying

Dogalmighty17:
Liar! Tinubu did not build that plant. The Chinese did.

But if another company decides to scale down its operations in Nigeria the blame will directly go to the president.

Audio plant.

Let petrol refinery work first.

rossipki:
Why Does This Type of News NEVER Reach Nairaland?

What type of forum is this?

The clamour everywhere now is for African countries to process their raw materials here in Africa, and not just export.

Okay, your President just built the largest lithium processing plant in all AFRICA, costing over $250 million, and now employing thousands of Nigerians directly and indirectly, and everywhere is quiet.

It's as if it didn't happen!

What kind of country is this?

Where is Oseni Rufai?

Didn't he see this one to report?

This is Lithium!

Rare Earth Minerals!! The source of tomorrow's industries!

This is what industrialisation is all about.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ekk9vYQvs?is=EQEORQkUJO2bE1oo56

rossipki:
Why Does This Type of News NEVER Reach Nairaland?

What type of forum is this?

The clamour everywhere now is for African countries to process their raw materials here in Africa, and not just export.

Okay, your President just built the largest lithium processing plant in all AFRICA, costing over $250 million, and now employing thousands of Nigerians directly and indirectly, and everywhere is quiet.

It's as if it didn't happen!

What kind of country is this?

Where is Oseni Rufai?

Didn't he see this one to report?

This is Lithium!

Rare Earth Minerals!! The source of tomorrow's industries!

This is what industrialisation is all about.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ekk9vYQvs?is=EQEORQkUJO2bE1oo56

You want to snatch, grab and run away with Chinese investment .

Dogalmighty17:
Liar! Tinubu did not build that plant. The Chinese did.

Who brought the Chinese?

Freetech:
...... because seun want to become information minister under Obi. He's not hiding his support for the obedient.

I was surprised seeing a so called pastor cursing people and with 3 comments it's on front page.

Lol. Must be why my topics, like the one below, never ever get to front page and, to make matters worse, I am an unapologetic ultra-passionate fan of PBAT always highlighting the splendid work he is doing no one wants to reveal or celebrate here as rossipki is doing with this thread.

Rather, be too pro-FG on Nairaland and constant, unfair and senseless banning will be your permanent fate here.

I am banned indiscriminately for very tame comments. Gotten used to it. The hate and sadism is real sir.

https://www.nairaland.com/8761755/us-consulate-new-lagos-building

Freetech:
...... because seun want to become information minister under Obi. He's not hiding his support for the obedient.

I was surprised seeing a so called pastor cursing people and with 3 comments it's on front page.

I wonder why the guy rush to put their lies on front page

franchasng:
No be only Tinubu built....what about Amoda discovered lithium battery in Nigeria?

AMINDA:
You no sabi the achievement bandits again? After stealing Fashola's achievements as governor to run with, they are now stealing Seyi Makinde and other governor's achievement because Tinubu has nothing to campaign with.

How did I know the usual suspects will be here with negative and disparaging comments?

It was what is shown below that is responsible for the creation of this lithium processing plant because of the local processing initiative of Minister.Dele Alake.

As Minister of Mines, Alake recognised we were losing out badly, same with exporting crude that returns to us much more expensively as PMS under subsidy, in the value chain that see minerals transformed into finished goods.

He crafted a policy strictly insisting minerals should be mined and processed in Nigeria so we benefit from the value train via jobs and valuable training for our people, transfer of technology mainly benefitting Nigerians, subsidized cost of finished goods such as lithium batteries to power solar systems etc etc.

Policy on Local Processing: The federal government pushed a strict "mine and refine" policy, discouraging the direct export of raw solid minerals and demanding local value addition.

1000 Nigerians will be directly employed by this plant that will also host 2000 indirect jobs for Nigerians. 3000 in total 😲😲

Did you also know, because of this brilliant policy of Alake, the Hasetins Group is creating a $400 million Rare Earth & Critical Minerals Processing Plant in Uke/Nasarawa State): Projected expected to create over 10,000 jobs

But for this innovative policy, this factory would never exist as the Chinese will be happy to export our lithium forever while returning it to us as lithium batteries.

Good to give credit where due especially as non of your Heroes like GEJ and Atiku, when he was VP to OBJ, could conceive this idea. Ditto Buhari.

TopBanter:
How did I know the usual suspects will be here with negative and disparaging comments?

It was what is shown below that is responsible for the creation of this lithium processing plant because of the local processing initiative of Minister.Dele Alake.

As Minister of Mines, Alake recognised we were losing out badly, same with exporting crude that returns to us much more expensively as PMS under subsidy, in the value chain that see minerals transformed into finished goods.

He crafted a policy strictly insisting minerals should be mined and processed in Nigeria so we benefit from the value train via jobs and valuable training for our people, transfer of technology mainly benefitting Nigerians, subsidized cost of finished goods such as lithium batteries to power solar systems etc etc.



1000 Nigerians will be directly employed by this plant that will also host 2000 indirect jobs for Nigerians. 3000 in total 😲😲

Did you also know, because of this brilliant policy of Alake, the Hasetins Group is creating a $400 million Rare Earth & Critical Minerals Processing Plant in Uke/Nasarawa State): Projected expected to create over 10,000 jobs

But for this innovative policy, this factory would never exist as the Chinese will be happy to export our lithium forever while returning it to us as lithium batteries.

Good to give credit where due especially as non of you Hero like GEJ and Atiku, whe n he VP to OBJ, could conceive this idea. Ditto Buhari.

From your attached screenshots, his contribution was policy direction, groundbreaking and commissioning. The jokes write themselves. Achievement bandits.

Dogalmighty17:
Liar! Tinubu did not build that plant. The Chinese did.

lol
If they say you built a house,is it really you that built it with your hands?
Yes,Tinubu just built a lithium factory in Nigeria and it is in his record book.
Fortunately,he is building a lot of infrastructures that had never been dreamt of that will galvanize and make Nigeria grow more than all other African countries organically.
The only problem of Tinubu's govt is the removal of subsidy effects which were fading off gradually but for the war between USA and Iran that made fuel price skyrocket.
Sane Nigerians are going to vote in President Tinubu again to continue most of his good work.
God bless Nigerians!

AMINDA:
From your attached screenshots, his contribution was policy direction, groundbreaking and commissioning. The jokes write themselves. Achievement bandits.

What did Obasanjo do that made us credit smartphone to him,sir?

Putinofrussia:
What did Obasanjo do that made us credit smartphone to him,sir?

He came up with the privatisation policy that liquidated NITEL and opened up the telecoms sector to private investors. If Tinubu goes about claiming projects attracted by state governments as his achievements, what would the governors claim? Isn't that what Seyi Makinde was complaining about recently?

moh1:
every one is quite [b]because that is not what Nigerians are fighting and crying to the government to do. [/b]what Nigerians needs now are security, accommodation, food, transport. the Government should role out policy to reduce the cost of living. nothing more nothing less.

Brother, it is you that does not know what Nigerians are "fighting" for but believe you do. Pwrhaps baises against certain leader has blinded your capacity to retain a mind open to knowledge acquisition.

This lithium processing plant is creating 3000 jobs for Nigerians, in Nasarawa, not Chinese.

Another rare earth processing company due in Nigeria that ill create 10000 jobs in same Nasarawa.

Are these beans to you or is is that you don't know of them or ignored economics in school to not know big processing, manufacturing, industrial,processing plants etal create jobs that feeds thousands of families, alleviate poverty, secure transfer of technology toward Nigerians.

All this a possibility because of the brilliant local mining and processing policy of Dele Alake, Minister of Mines under PBAT.

Both deserve huge credit for over-addressing what the common man is "fighting" for i.e jobs, and income, acquisition of life-changing technology training and skill that will see many run the businesses the Chinese have run from overseas for decades that saw them develop quickly as a nation.

In case you don't know it, this is why many call Tinubu the Lee Kuan Yew of Africa. He is practically developing Nigeria into Singapore that is a wonderful first world nation today yet a slum over 30 years ago and former colony of Britain same as us.

Lee Kuan Yew initiated policies that transformed Singapore into a giant factory floor different nations of the world could come and locate their big industries and processing/manufacturing plants in.

The transfer of technology towards the Singaporeans was literally insane from having some the world's best skilled engineers, scientists, manufacturers, fabricators, machinists etc,etc in their country as expats changing their nations wealth massively and teaching them valuable skills they could then use to develop their own nation in future.

Did they deploy that transfer of knowledge and tech they gained from foreigners well?

My God, they did that spectacularly to transform Singapore into a science and technology powerhouse today that is one of the most developed nation of the world, most economically advanced plus safest and best to live in.

See the big picture bro. Don't be like the Nigerian about "Rice and Eba" alone who let themselves remain blind to the spectacular being achieved and refuse, for one reason or the other, perhaps tribalism etc, to key into the vision of this FG to see what is truly possible.

Asides Tinubu creation of economic stability and jobs, with far more coming because of the local processing and mining policy of Alake, his greatest achievement is that he is moving in ways, no other previous President came remotely close to, making informed and exposed Nigerians to dream Nigeria can indeed become a developed nation when we had written that off previously.

Life is far from about Rice and eba only or "how does that affect the price of Garri". Others before Tinubu were the equivalent of those before Lee Kuan Yew who also failed to do the right things before Yew who came on board to implement tough but crucial reforms, policies and initiative Singaporeans groaned under then but thank and praise him for. He Yew, is a human God to Singaporeans today.

Na lithium we go chop? (in Tinubu voice)

The will use everything to buy likeness,the plant in nassarawa was built by Chinese and nassarawa government the give them land and other stuff, tinubu did nothing,he is only building his family and chagoury,he no even send his tribe and worst of it,the are buying fuel same price with other tribe,few are enlighten to remove tribe to say it as it is,that he is not working why others have decide to starve to hunger as long there brother is still the president