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NtoAkwaIbom:
ALSCON Potroom West 2
Once booming with life and economic activity, Nigeria’s “Smelter City” suffered an agonizing reversal of fortune following the closure of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria last year.
ALSCON, Nigeria’s only aluminium smelting plant, was shut down after its managers, Russian aluminium giant, United Company RUSAL PLC, sacked more than 98 percent of its workforce, most of them local hires, following crippling protests against poor working conditions, dwindling productivity and spiralling debts.
Before its closure, ALSCON was the second largest employer of the Ikot Abasi community after the local council. Almost 1,800 direct hires were natives. Over 2,500 others worked for support-services companies.  It was, perhaps, an answer to the region’s quest for solution to its environmental pollution and youth restiveness.
Since its closure last September, over 200,000 residents of this agrarian community located in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, have been living in darkness. Its only source of electricity, extended as token of social responsibility by ALSCON, was cut.
Amaete Ntuk, former head of the local council, said ALSCON’s sudden closure spelt death for a great dream.
“ALSCON was our only major industrial establishment; the mainstay of Ikot Abasi economy,” he said. “The brief period ALSCON operated seemed a beautiful dream for all. Its closure has turned into a nightmare for our people.”
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“The privatization of ALSCON to the Russians has brought more pain than gain to Niger Delta people,” said Donatus Uko, the President General, Mboho Ndito Ikot Abasi, a local community development association.
The smelting plant was set up in 1997 to  harness Nigeria’s estimated 187 trillion  cubic feet of gas reserves for aluminium production, industrialization and national economic growth.
At peak operation in 1999, ALSCON earned $324 million in exports of aluminium products. It created jobs, satisfied Nigeria’s aluminium needs of less than 20 percent, and earned income from exporting 80 percent of its products, according to the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Nigeria’s agency in charge of privatization of public companies.
“The Ikot Abasi Smelter was to bring desperately needed employment to the region”, the head of BPE, Benjamin Dikki, said.
In 1999, the newly elected government of President Olusegun Obasanjo had other plans. Nigeria’s top brass appropriated ALSCON’s sale profits, used RUSAL as a front for the willing buyer, and paid for the smelter with the nation’s funds, documents show

You can do better than this. Do pay adverts on dailies so u can further push ur bigotry to the world

For now Nigerian no get option than to vote Atiku as president. I don't care if Apc win any other seat. Am not a party man afterall

NgeneUkwenu:
Hired urchins...No enthusiasm at all..

You are tired

Reppin nija

Just sad that people sitting on affairs of ur country are bunch of liars

You say

Me am not understanding again ooooo
Holier than thou... Kontinu




Tho in the past as fmr gov of lagos
Borehole, website nko

Patiently waiting for next sat

Ohh lawd This pic was doctored


I don't know the extent of technology used in making this video!

How can Atiku recieve these numbers of kwankeasiya and still smiling -! Buhari 2019 ( ref : the candidate)

This pic was doctored


I don't know the extent of technology used in making this video!

How can Atiku recieve these numbers of kwankeasiya and still smiling -! Buhari 2019 ( ref : the candidate)

sreamsense:
When we were telling you that many of you were not thinking right by determining to follow wrong pathfinder, scammer and a coward, you were here insulting us to extent that some people wasted their lives over nothing while the guy is jumbing from one country to another flexing. Now, your eyes don clear now that you don enter one chance. You better download free sense now before it is too late to upgrade kanu-infected damaged one

Pls show AmarachiAshewo where she can download her own.

AmarachiAshawo:
All I see are bunch of efelefus who doesn't know their right from their left, who doesn't know they are slaves to fulanis in this British contraption.
No referendum no election, sit at home and enjoy with your family. Your vote won't count.
The zoo must fall.

If you continue with this ur Biafra whatever u may end up joining the numbers of fallen agent o. Be guided and prove to ur parent that money spent on ur education is not wasted.


A guy made a valid point. If you want to lead Biafra, come to Biafra land. U can't be a citizen of UK calling for innocent citizen to continue hoping and fighting for biafra

People Don wake up

Me my wife, my 16 relatives and good numbers of my staff are voting Atiku, lagos

My vote must count. Buhari needs rest

I seek Good response to this too.

On Sunday
Mods even God rested on the 7th day. We need sermon, guide to improve faith

O ma she ooo

History is repeating its self na so dem kill cow for Apc in 2015

Clerverly:


This was Jonathan in Kano in 2015, and at the end of the day, he got less than 15% of the votes

Same crowd following buhari since he is the incumbent president.

All incumbent leaders always get mammoth crowd at their rallies. Ur comments has proven Bubu has lost it already

Apc sha

Lol

Start with your fellow kinsmen.. It will go a lo ng way to show how genuine this comments is

Nukilia:
Nigerians needed to experience the stupidity and incompetence of PMB and I'm sure we've learnt out lessons. Time to send the scammer and his crew back to daura so that they can continue breeding cattle for Nigeria

Taking petrol price from #75 to #145 is enough to send the foolish party back to hell.

#ZombeismIsACurse

Well said my brother. It's so sad that able Nigerians still want him in office

Their excuse am yet to understand

Smh! This was how buhari was defeating Gej back then and finaly won.

Now Atiku is winning on all this same platforms. Don't let's us forget that all these online polls, nairaland likes and shares are representative of human whether in Nigeria or outside whether with pvc or not. This goes to shows people are truly tired of buhari.

We were many that supported buhari back then In 2015 based on Gej mismanagement. But I am shocked at those who are still supporting buhari. It means many are supporting him in true sense while some are paid agents.

The question am asking is, can you employ buhari to manage your company
Let's shun politics of sentiment and tribalism. Apc and pdp doesn't deserve our vote this year.


Best of luck to whoever wins.

Cest fini

Lol.... See gobe looming!!!!

Misplaced priority. Go join APC the money wil be forgotten

OK forex trading, agricultural proceeds, millionaire from heaven etc.... Is now like a new sheet of paper some politians r u using to cover faces now

Ghen Ghen.... Atiku manifesto.

I thought they rejected this in the first place

Lies from the pit of hell!

Make God help us

Eyah u can dash me the money. It will to a long way to fix many challenges in my company.

Eyah u can dash me the money. It will to a long way to fix many challenges in my company

Better. A whole govnor saying those rubbish. Shows these people are power drunk

overall90:
If gold can rust,what of sliver ?

if you know you know

I love this, you killed it