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PetroDollaxxxx:
hahahahaha i know this ediot it is that igbo boy that was disgraced here some months ag[/b]o [b]the fool from FUTO minna he had some stvpid name like his personality deserves it shows how foolish and uneducated you are foolish goat

Alas! Nigeria imports sawdust



According to Trading Economics, imports to Nigeria surged 48% year-on-year to N943.6bn in December 2018, mainly driven by purchases of manufactured goods that took the chunk of 88.3% and raw materials, a meagre 12.5%. The implication of the minute 12.5% in raw materials import is that Nigeria is extremely poor in value addition, meaning that as a nation, we are lacking in simple and complex industries that helped in the transformation of other economies. An example is the huge importation of our cocoa beans by the USA and the UK; no matter how the huge import bills may be, those countries are the richer for it because what they have imported is for value addition.
This scenario of unbridled import of finished products was aptly captured by the many super stores daily springing up in urban centres in Nigeria. A walk through these stores will make the patriotic citizen heave a forlorn sigh and wonder if the nation will ever be free from the imports of the biggest technologies like airplanes and ships to the import of minute technologies like matches and toothpicks. I was in such a mood when in a store in remote Akure, I saw imported sawdust on the shelf. I felt shocked to the marrows and dragged my colleague who was shopping with me to come and see what I saw. Sawdust! He exclaimed. I went back the following day to buy a pack for N1,299. It was to show to unbelieving Nigerians and lift it up to God to plead, “Save your people O! Lord.” That is if God in His benevolence interferes in such pedestrian matters. It is bad enough that Nigeria imports common banana and other exotic fruits into the country, but sawdust?
What was the selling point of this imported sawdust from France? The details on the pack claimed that the sawdust was made from old wine barrels and as such when it is used to roast meats, the aroma of the wine that the barrels had soaked over the years of using it for storage will flavour the meat. In simple terms what the French had done for us was a very simple “waste to wealth”; old wine barrels that would have been stacked somewhere until they decompose or taken to French rural areas to be used for winter fire were carefully converted into sawdust, neatly packaged and shipped to Nigeria and maybe other countries that have the “taste” for “luxury” and “class”.
READ ALSO: Nigeria, a laughing stock in oil business — Petroleum minister
Sawdust seems to be a recurring encounter for me. Some years back, as an employee of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry, we hosted a business delegation from South Africa. One of them had told me, “Akin I saw on the long Bridge, how your country is burning money.” I had wondered if they came through the Niger Delta and my answer was “O! our gas flaring”, not knowing that he was talking about what he saw in Oko Baba, that strip on the Lagoon around Ebute-Ero when one is going to the Island through the Third Mainland Bridge where the bulk of saw-milling in Lagos takes place. What he saw was sawdust being burnt into ashes as a way of disposing the easily accumulated dust. He had told me that all we needed was a machine that could convert the sawdust into briquettes, and we have in our hands simple export commodities. The big question till today is, where is the technology and where are the entrepreneurs to make it happen? We all probably want to export crude oil. Where is the government’s will to boost Nigeria’s export at all costs? Those that have the money to import briquette-making machines would rather import state of the art fuel dispensing machines, build mega petrol filling stations to log into the dying but still lucrative petro-chemical industry in Nigeria. No wonder the landscape is filled up with fuel filling stations, where some, out of extreme poverty come to dispense N100 gasoline just to power their “I better pass my neighbour” generator to charge their phones and have a one-hour feel of civilisation.
We have waited for too long to take our place in the league of industrially competitive nations. I hope we will not get lost on the way, the way we are going about it. The rich and the mighty rejoice at the importation of exotic items for homes, offices and personal uses, or how do you explain the trinket and ornament catches of a former minister recently displayed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission? The middle class and the poor rejoice at the importation of second-hand goods which have dovetailed into used socks, boxers for men and intimate wear for ladies.


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Logobenz0:
And what's this Mumu saying who was disgraced Some month ago me "Problemkid1" are you drunk on kanke ne and what the fvck is FUTO Minna Sammy I think this kanke eater has gone mad and mad and mad

Keep your News to your fvcking self you bombastic fool my problem is. Tell me one meaningful thing in your shitthol just one tangible thing you can compare to others you zoo country has been sinking deep like Titanic instead of you to worry about your zoo country, you're here masturbating on Nigeria problems how is our fault that your country is shitthol just like Kenya the biggest shitthol in the world See broda wey Mumu

rvp20182:
Kenya second only to South Africa in Luxury market. Nigeria distant third (about half kenya luxury market despite the population disparity as poverty bites.

kikuyu1:
You can see the giant strides we've made since this thread began. IIRC,our HNWs have grown by 20% since 2016.

Jonraid:
Here is Kenya's energy mix...

Just n case you've been wondering what are our main sources of energy!

Logobenz0:
Finally, we can say all that begins well, ends well. We can finally say that work done on the Lagos-Ibadan Railway has reached 70% completion as the minister of transportation alongside some members from the national assembly and some members of the Nigeria Railway Corporation today inspected and test-run the coaches from Lagos to Abeokuta station. According to the minister of transportation, the Lagos-Ibadan Railway will start operation soon.

These are some of the pictures as they test-run the coaches and not only that, the minister personally took it upon himself to check and see the rails personally.

https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/02/at-last-lagos-ibadan-railway-comes.html

PetroDollaxxxx:
hahahahaha i know this ediot it is that igbo boy that was disgraced here some months ag[/b]o [b]the fool from FUTO minna he had some stvpid name like his personality deserves it shows how foolish and uneducated you are foolish goat

Alas! Nigeria imports sawdust



According to Trading Economics, imports to Nigeria surged 48% year-on-year to N943.6bn in December 2018, mainly driven by purchases of manufactured goods that took the chunk of 88.3% and raw materials, a meagre 12.5%. The implication of the minute 12.5% in raw materials import is that Nigeria is extremely poor in value addition, meaning that as a nation, we are lacking in simple and complex industries that helped in the transformation of other economies. An example is the huge importation of our cocoa beans by the USA and the UK; no matter how the huge import bills may be, those countries are the richer for it because what they have imported is for value addition.
This scenario of unbridled import of finished products was aptly captured by the many super stores daily springing up in urban centres in Nigeria. A walk through these stores will make the patriotic citizen heave a forlorn sigh and wonder if the nation will ever be free from the imports of the biggest technologies like airplanes and ships to the import of minute technologies like matches and toothpicks. I was in such a mood when in a store in remote Akure, I saw imported sawdust on the shelf. I felt shocked to the marrows and dragged my colleague who was shopping with me to come and see what I saw. Sawdust! He exclaimed. I went back the following day to buy a pack for N1,299. It was to show to unbelieving Nigerians and lift it up to God to plead, “Save your people O! Lord.” That is if God in His benevolence interferes in such pedestrian matters. It is bad enough that Nigeria imports common banana and other exotic fruits into the country, but sawdust?
What was the selling point of this imported sawdust from France? The details on the pack claimed that the sawdust was made from old wine barrels and as such when it is used to roast meats, the aroma of the wine that the barrels had soaked over the years of using it for storage will flavour the meat. In simple terms what the French had done for us was a very simple “waste to wealth”; old wine barrels that would have been stacked somewhere until they decompose or taken to French rural areas to be used for winter fire were carefully converted into sawdust, neatly packaged and shipped to Nigeria and maybe other countries that have the “taste” for “luxury” and “class”.
READ ALSO: Nigeria, a laughing stock in oil business — Petroleum minister
Sawdust seems to be a recurring encounter for me. Some years back, as an employee of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry, we hosted a business delegation from South Africa. One of them had told me, “Akin I saw on the long Bridge, how your country is burning money.” I had wondered if they came through the Niger Delta and my answer was “O! our gas flaring”, not knowing that he was talking about what he saw in Oko Baba, that strip on the Lagoon around Ebute-Ero when one is going to the Island through the Third Mainland Bridge where the bulk of saw-milling in Lagos takes place. What he saw was sawdust being burnt into ashes as a way of disposing the easily accumulated dust. He had told me that all we needed was a machine that could convert the sawdust into briquettes, and we have in our hands simple export commodities. The big question till today is, where is the technology and where are the entrepreneurs to make it happen? We all probably want to export crude oil. Where is the government’s will to boost Nigeria’s export at all costs? Those that have the money to import briquette-making machines would rather import state of the art fuel dispensing machines, build mega petrol filling stations to log into the dying but still lucrative petro-chemical industry in Nigeria. No wonder the landscape is filled up with fuel filling stations, where some, out of extreme poverty come to dispense N100 gasoline just to power their “I better pass my neighbour” generator to charge their phones and have a one-hour feel of civilisation.
We have waited for too long to take our place in the league of industrially competitive nations. I hope we will not get lost on the way, the way we are going about it. The rich and the mighty rejoice at the importation of exotic items for homes, offices and personal uses, or how do you explain the trinket and ornament catches of a former minister recently displayed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission? The middle class and the poor rejoice at the importation of second-hand goods which have dovetailed into used socks, boxers for men and intimate wear for ladies.


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SUFFERInSMILIIN:
China is ripping you off big time Kenya's railway sgr can carry passengers and heavy goods up to 40 tonnes of goods pa wagon. While the lagos-ibadan rail is just for passengers he cannot carry goods and cargo it has a [b]maximum tonnage 15 tons par wagon. [/b]Nigeria is making the same mistake over and over and over all the heavy trucks would be still using the roads

rvp20182:
Nairobi City Center

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
The Nigerians here at total illiterate and do not know who to fight. After the Ghanaians hammered them 2 days ago they now remember that there is Kenya and now they started fighting with Kenya yesterday night up till now. Most Nigerians here are just confused illiterate.

kikuyu1:
I know in Naij the unthinkable is normal BUT REALLY! Is there a link or source?

AskiaHarem:

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
One day fighting Kenya. Next day fighting Ghana the day after fighting South Africa. This because very confusing on what the Nigerian go is about here. Is it just to fight other African countries with no purpose. Affect me I am becoming totally confused because this Nigerian idiots will attack Kenya when they're being hammered they will jump to Ghana then they will jump to South Africa after all of this they will return back to Kenya

kikuyu1:
My goodness,OHH Naij!? Ceiling/soft board,pellets,briquettes? Never mind!

rvp2018:
Anybody with a brain or money has either escaped or is busy trying to escape Nigeria..those that have to stay have their own exclusive island of little paradise heavily guarded and driving around with company of armed security...you can imagine a country whose best day is six hours of electricity.Just imagine a city with defeaning generator noise... everywhere you turn you'll be hearing or smelling damn generators.Most countries would revolt big time.But Nigeria have some wired sense of humour...

jln115:
Looks like you are just as confused as Samarobo..... Those vehicles that are deployed on UN missions are not owned, bought, operated or used by the UN.... They are the property of the countries that participate in those missions.....

Understand??

Pic: Rooivalk AHs...... They have never been sold, exported or operated by any other nation or organisation, besides the South African Air force.

Yet they are UN branded and deployed on UN missions, does that now mean they have been sold to the UN?

Logobenz0:
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Logobenz0:
Finally, we can say all that begins well, ends well. We can finally say that work done on the Lagos-Ibadan Railway has reached 70% completion as the minister of transportation alongside some members from the national assembly and some members of the Nigeria Railway Corporation today inspected and test-run the coaches from Lagos to Abeokuta station. According to the minister of transportation, the Lagos-Ibadan Railway will start operation soon.

These are some of the pictures as they test-run the coaches and not only that, the minister personally took it upon himself to check and see the rails personally.

https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/02/at-last-lagos-ibadan-railway-comes.html

Logobenz0:
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Logobenz0:
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun commissioned 100 patio vans and 200 motorcycles to strengthen internal security in the State.

The Governor who applauded the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for his swiftness at ensuring that normalcy was restored back to the state when kidnappers struck in the state between the 23rd and 24th of July and the 1st of August said that the state would henceforth continue to have a zero tolerance for criminality, cultism, kidnappings and other unwholesome attitudes in the state.

Prince Abiodun made this known at the presentation of one hundred vehicles and two hundred motorbikes at the arcade ground of the governors office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, said that the helicopter that was released for surveillance on the instance of the president helped the state in curbing the issue.
The governor affirmed that no part of the State would be a safe haven for criminals and criminality in whatever form, adding that with the reconstituted security trust fund which had being moribund,his administration amended the law setting it up, with a view that the reconstituted security trust fund won't have governance issues, as it had in the past.

" We reconstituted our security trust fund which had being being moribund, we amended the law setting it up so that we can have in the fund people who can make it successful and also ensure that it has the right governance, so that it can be autonomous and independent," he said.

In his response, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu noted that he came to sensitize and encourage men of the force in the state to continue to add more value to issues of security, saying that the federal government was doing a lot in terms of equipping the Nigerian Police.

I'mHe said that the federal government having noticed that the force was lacking behind in terms of weapons and other equipments, had embarked on the purchase of equipments, which he said would help the men discharge their duties properly.

Adamu also added that the Nigeria Police would be introducing a community Policing across the country, adding that, when the time for recruitment comes, he would come and ask the state government for assistance in the area of recruiting best hands.

He also disclosed that the Nigeria Police would be leaving behind a special task force to be headed by Fimihan Adeoye, a former commissioner of police in Osun state to help the state in bringing an end to criminal activities. These are some of the images obtained by AutoReportNG

https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/09/ogun-state-government-commissions-100.html

68816419:
The new terminal building of the Port Harcourt International Airport

AskiaHarem:
Eat, Relax, and experience some culture.

obaaderemi:
When a school collapsed in Lagos last year,I remember how this stupid,hateful, desperate and immature Little Indians, especially Tasha Maria laughed here, making fun of the dead.
Now that the same thing has happened in their shithole, what do the idiots have to say?


Well,on behalf of Nigerians here-- condolences to the bereaved.

gallivant:


Back to the fence with you Obaboon. As predicted.

Jonraid:
It's the second time he is offering the condolences.That's more like rubbing our noses in it! He's just mocking while trying to prove a point!