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TayserMahri:
Dont expect oil to regain its pre-covid prices this year. That means we expect a massive dip in your cooked economy for the foreseeable future.

Lol analyst are already predicting oil price to be pegged at $45 from late June/early July....
You can be logical for once and use your common sense...some weeks back(not even up to 3 weeks) oil traded $0 and at best $12.we all saw buyer been paid to buy US oil cos the reserve where filled up..we even anticipated oil price to continue negative dollar up till next year but fast forward few weeks after and oil price is hovering around $32....and a quarter of the world economy is still not open... expect more rebound than depression..

Problemkid1:
Akwa Ibom Coconut Refinery, Nigeria’s Future Beckons
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 | News

By Essien Ndueso

When Governor Udom Emmanuel set out to lubricate the once virgin well of agriculture in Akwa Ibom State with the establishment of Africa’s biggest coconut oil refinery, most people had no idea of coconut’s enormous potentials. But the Governor went ahead, displaying his propensity to plan towards an economy beyond crude oil, as if he knew that a certain Coronavirus pandemic would soon bring the world on its knees.



The St. Gabriel Coconut Oil Factory located in Ikot Ekpuk, Mkpat Enin Local Government of the State is handled by VKS Nigeria Construction Limited. The factory which has a projected capacity of processing one million coconuts a day, will commence with a starting capacity of 300,000 coconuts daily. It was flagged off by Governor Emmanuel on May 24, 2017, as part of activities to mark his second year in Office. With a projection of being a future Nigeria might have to fall back on, the refinery project is visionary because of the multi-faceted use of the coconut. As Governor Emmanuel himself put it, the coconut has over 365 uses, implying that there is a different function for the coconut in each day of the year. In cosmetics products, automobiles industry, confectionery, physiotherapy, medicine and general catering, coconut asserts itself as the future the world had longed for.

In recent years, coconut oil has emerged as a potential ‘miracle’ food and source of revenue. Some health specialists and nutritionists have asserted that the coconut oil is capable of promoting health benefits, such as weight reduction, cholesterol lowering, prevention of cardiovascular diseases, and anti-inflammatory effect, among others.

The refinery project which is currently nearing completion has enjoyed the support of host communities, implying that they acceded to the Governor’s charge when he sued for the cooperation of youths in Ikot Abasi, Mkpat Enin and Eastern Obolo and sounded a note of warning to the leaders of the community to resist the temptation of harassing the contractors in order not to frustrate the progress of the factory. As a deal, during the flag off, the State House of Assembly member for Ikot Abasi / Eastern Obolo, Honourable Uduak Ududoh had registered the gratitude of his people to the governor for keeping his electoral promises of providing employment opportunities to indigenes of the area and assured of a pact of peace.

Indeed, the employment opportunities have been encouraging. The project manager, Mr Alper Yilmaz affirmed that eventhough at 80 percent completion no fewer than 1000 people had been engaged at various stages of the project execution which is currently at the state of production line installation. Before the current pandemic, some production lines had arrived and installations are underway, albeit hampered by the Covid-19 lockdown.

This writer visited the coconut refinery project and work had indeed reached an advanced stage. An indigene of the community and Assistant Safety Officer at the project site, Unyime Oliver, expressed gratitude to Governor Udom Emmanuel for having the once neglected Mkpat Enin in his development plan, which has granted youths of the community the opportunity to use the knowledge and skills acquired in School to work. The Warehouse Manager, Ibanga Nsisong averred the project as the first of its kind in West Africa, which will rescue over 5000 unemployed youths from awarding of contracts, to direct and indirect labour. Other workers recounted the challenges of job hunting they faced before the project commenced and described the project as a welcome development that will engage and create wealth for the youths of the community and the people of Akwa Ibom State.But the Health and Safety Supervisor, Mr Aniekan Samuel Peters, went a step further when he thanked the State Government for always releasing funds for equipment to ensure an accident free working environment and prayed for the sustainability of the project beyond the lifespan of the present administration.

The refinery itself, according to the Managing Director of VKS Nigeria Construction Limited, Onur Kumral, sits on a total landmass 78,487 square meters earmarked for the refinery, and this further shows the seriousness at a time when oil from coconut is more expensive than crude oil.

Aggressive construction began in 2017 after the flag off, and on September 25, 2018, Governor Udom Emmanuel inspected the level of work at the coconut refinery project site. Impressed at the pace of work, Governor Udom Emmanuel explained that the foreign market is already ready for the produce of the refinery and described the project as the biggest in Africa, and another project of his administration that will elevate the youths of Akwa Ibom state.

Speaking with newsmen shortly after the inspection, Governor Udom Emmanuel explained that the facility will employ thousands across the state and that the revenue from coconut oil surpasses the revenue from crude oil daily. He furthered that the refinery which will also process palm kernels, will give birth to smaller factories that will process other parts of the coconut fruit.

The facility boasts of administrative offices, production areas, technical spaces, industrial firefighting systems, water treatment plants, effluent treatment plants and residential quarters for technical and managerial staff as well as Green parking areas for tractors carrying raw materials.

If the factory is billed to process and refine over one million coconuts daily, is the state ready to provide the raw materials to feed production? There is the state coconut plantation on 11,000 hectares of land at the Eastern Obolo, Ikot Abasi, Mkpat Enin axis of the state which is meant to accommodate over two million coconut trees. Already, a clarion call has been sounded to all farmers in the state to cultivate coconut as it will be a major revenue spinner in the State’s economy in few months . To show the imperatives of this, the state government had few months ago directed all local government authorities in the state to dedicate at least 50 hectares of land for the cultivation of coconut while 230 public schools were also directed to plant at least 300 coconut trees in their respective premises. But all of these will still not be enough to feed the factory, meaning that all the coconuts produced in Nigeria and neighbouring African countries will have to find their way to the emerging coconut processing hub.

Following his visit to the state recently, renowned journalist and columnist Sam Omatseye had this to say about the Refinery in a piece titled ‘The Udom Challenge’, published in the Nation Newspaper of March 16, 2020, “For a region that teems with forests, it is open for work. The St Gabriel Coconut refinery is still under construction, with work at an advanced stage. It plans to refine 300,000 coconuts a day. This hub will spur agricultural work and employment to feed this buzz of factory needs. All over the state, Governor Emmanuel touts his completion agenda. He has challenged himself. To set up an infrastructure work is one thing, to turn them into fruits is another. Harvests, however, are afoot already.”

Governor Udom Emmanuel has indeed shown that his industrialization agenda in Akwa Ibom, is not a hoax. At least the giant flying birds, Ibom Air attest to the sincerity and commitment of his administration to match policies with action.

Apart from the Kings Flour Mill, the Jubilee Syringe Manufacturing company, Lion Plywood/Timber Manufacturing Company, the rice mills, Metering Solutions Company among others industries established by Governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration, the coconut refinery is one that will contribute in skyrocketing the economy of Akwa Ibom State as it gives hope to individual coconut farmers as a ready market for their farm produce and offers direct and indirect benefits to several others.

These fit the words of Frank Herbert that “good governance never depends upon laws but upon the personal qualities of those who govern”

Lol this is beautiful...rvp and the rest doomsayers will never like this...that said.
It good to see that that facility will generate more revenue than oil....our diversification plan is rolling out just fine...
I am also gladen that the president has revisited the resuscitation of ajaokuta steel plant ..

vaxx:
open the school , open the religious center, open the border and let life continue while maintaining science based solution . i.e handwatching, face mask, social distancing etc....


the virus is probably not going away soon .....

True ..I feel like we might overcome it like the Spanish influenza pre WW1..

Austine1212:
I wanted to see pics, n yall were not posting

N i was tired of seeing same pics of "the capital", same pics in million angles lol

Things is posting pictures can be really strenuous for me.. honestly I wonder how Kenyans do it so easily...I know how deep I have to surf through the internet to get those pics and even the ones I downloaded here I have ransack my phone just to get them......


Lol @ bolded that is so Kenya...I wonder why they love posting nairobi alot and it's even funny when one person can repeat a single image ten times a day and another person will download it and also repeat it that same day....it can be very boring honestly..

gallivant:
Green City under the Sun

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmX0ZUWsAAmEFF.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmX8OkXsAMpz2a.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmX4rsWAAQPZXo.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmX0VRWoAIJHko.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmX0btWAAENI-e.jpg

Chennai is this what you promised me?

Justnotyou:
@sherlock229 @samorobo @Danielnino00 @AskiaHarem

While the Fula know they are Fulɓe; they're called by the French: Peul; by the Portuguese: Fula; by Wolof: Pël; by Bambara: Fulaw and famously by their Hausa brothers: Fulani or Hilani...

Peuhl girl from Nigeria.

Hmmmm...one thing I like about Fulani girls is their enchanting beauty...
In my own unbiased opinion Fulani and Igbo probably has the finest set of girls in Nigeria...

AskiaHarem:
I'd rather go with North Eastern ,the Kunari and other minority tribes of the region are pretty culturally distinct from the North Central-Western Huasa and Fulani with there only thing in common being there Islamic Faith.

Yes I agree with you

Justnotyou:
Kanuri girl, Nigeria.

Northern Nigeria

Justnotyou:
Edo girls, Nigeria.

South-southern Nigeria

Justnotyou:
Yoruba girls, Nigeria.

South western Nigerian

Austine1212:
Yall wait for me to leave n start postings good pics

Hope you been good

Haha I told you to stick around didn't I...

Yes I have been good what bout' you..

Shma:
let's do simple maths,.
Out of five of your aimless ranting, I only reply three.
You concentrate on every other Kenyans, including Rvp, gallivant, mitsi, tyser everybody except kikuyu
For my case I only concentrate on you and some lies by other countrymen.
Now you can do simple maths.

You're now at approximately (five) hundreds, at least for me am hitting my first 100%

Keep ranting dude, hit10-100% and we'll award you a gold medal.

Free advice sh*male kindly stay off maths for your own good...I don't want to add that to my existing brutality on you....btw dear autistic child we are using standard percentage..from 0%-100%..

Shma:
you are still stupid.
Googling technical jargon and wrongly using them will further sell you, That will not dispute the fact that you're still dumb

Keep Googling more strong words and come expose yourself

I am sorry ladyboy I am not you..if you google words to reply me then that just goes to show you always get prepared when communicating with your master which apparently is me...I on the other hand will be damned before I ever think of checking a word out from the internet to quote someone I consider beneath me...I see you as a nobody without an aim in life and of course empty upstairs..you are indeed devoid of sense...I treat you no better than I treat a hungry roaming goat and greet every of your post with howls of derision

Shma:
you're wrong.
I use 75% of factual sentiments to bombard your silly egotistical brain.
You used to deceive people how smart you're by replying each and every post in this forum but guess What?
All your replies sound womanly and less of educated.
As you said talk is cheap, the reason you implemented your bullshit talk all through since you joined.
.....

You are still operating on 100% aimless sissy rant but this time around you laced it with astro projection...the only about your post that describes me will be me quoting almost every post here...the rest is just you lady bitch....

Shma:
pwahahaa
You better kept shut.
Your efforts of trying to act quick-witted is doomed
You are not convincing everyone on your state of dumb-ness(try harder maybe your fellow madder fugger intellectual mate will one day say you're an intellect)

Meanwhile, you're just dumb.

And assume am dumb as your running mouth do Spew,
Imagine a dumb fella noticing a dimwit?? Does this seem logic to you ?

And now you've hit 100% aimless rants...lol what an idiot.. atleast rant with an aim or direction next time..
Just go ..call it tweeter,weaked,and forth...I can't help you anymore

Shma:
another pathetic kind of reasoning.
Who told you inadequate tar will make the road brown, do you even know the samples of road layout required before reaching on tar.
Or according to your knucklehead red soil should be the second last layout of the road construction?
Surely dude?? Your thinking with a class two pupil plays on the same level.

Quit the senile verbiage and stop obfuscating the issue..you are now spitting hairs..
Just tell us did you run out of tar or was it bitumen....that to me should be the only explanation to that hodgepodge you have up there in your zoological kingdom

Shma:
if mine is 2kb then yours should be hitting negative.
Is not that had to identify a slowpoke from the midst of thousands.
You'll forever remain a dimwit if you fail to learn,
Place me out of that contest but take this to bank.
YOU ARE DUMB, far far from intellectual goon(fool)

I was to comment on that road debate but your emoticons has just spoilt the whole Convo.
You have now resorted to your unmanly(womanly) tantrums.

You used more than 75% of your post to rant aimlessly and throw tantrums like a kid and here you are accusing me of throwing one..
No you couldn't comment becos you have nothing to say hence 75% tantrums that made up your post...

Shma:
Is this a question you're asking?
If yes, you have miles to go on your punctuation skills
Lemme presume is a question,


Do you mean forte olodo?

Yes I meant forth(4) not forte for strength and I would just direct you to Google and search the meaning of forth then go back and fix it to what I wrote to you

Look ladyboy I was only trying to correct you...heck what was I even thinking? If you couldn't learn anything right from when you were kindergarten to this stage who is to say you will learn now....just keep calling forte-forth, Twitter-tweeter and of course the latest wicked-weaked ..lol your cheap education is telling

theenchanter:
guy, don't u get tired of all these? I mean replying the same shii?

I salute ur dedication to this thread and guys.

Honestly it's annoying hearing them talk about infastructure...with the way they talk one would assume they have it better or they are even very developed in infastructure (I am talking US level)... little will you know they are just a ceespool shiithole struggling to put up infastructures...Kenya is a backwater abeg...

Shma:
You are not smart at all.
You're just nonplussed about that road, personally, if I were to judge that road, I will blame it on the red soil scattered on it.
The soil has made it look grossly brownish(normal state when constructing a road on red volcanic soil)., I know you expected to see a black/grey looking road but sorry dude, give it one month and you'll see what you want to see.

Even if the soil made that road looked grossly brownish it won't affect the dark shiny nature of the road ...Enugu is just like nairobi..red soiled but yet Enugu still maintain its authentic dark shiny colour....
I think you guys are either poor to afford more tar and build quality roads or the contractors ran out of tar and left the road in its faded glory

Shma:
[sub][/sub]that road is under construction, what do you expect me to say, am not here to model myself from people like you do, that's your forth woman

Do you mean forte olodo

Shma:
as I told you earlier, in health sector , health system matters, Nigeria is a big zoo in that.
Ghana Is also ahead of you,
Infrastructure wise, am not sure, I can't say what I can't puzzle out.
You saw local high school where Law breakers for quarantine and curfew rules were being forced to isolate and your obtuse brain ended up concluding bullshit.(That has made you run your mouth on isolation state in kenya since time immemorial)
I don't have to show you how covid management has exposed you health system.
On infrastructure, I gave you a link from African bank that ranks African countries by infrastructure since 2016.
What you just posted does not imply the trend, we once topped that list, Tz has once boomed projects( skyscrapers) within a period of two years. Ethiopia too and Egypt.
What do you mean by small countries??

Stop barking like a starved dog and show me what your isolation/quarantine centre looks like...the ones in Nigeria will make Kenyans wish they had the virus and be shipped to those facilities...what is even more annoying is that you get to pay so you can be treated less than human.....
As regards to that index you are dumb and I won't take my time to lecture you which by the way I know your 2kb brain won't grab...it's a fvckkkinnnng waste of precious time...just know this "your books is fvcking cookeeeeed!!!!..

You should learn from Nigeria in infastructural development...

gallivant:
It's still under construction. I will try to post better roads, maybe even some skyscrapers.

Good ..then do so...
We are tired of seeing hideous infastructure...

Rvp.. what your thought on this beautiful mini city development.ot part of port Harcourt bgreater urban expansion...I hope you live the renders

Shma:
the road is under construction.
Super modern
I know where your eyes is hitting.
The red volcanic soil will soon be replaced with greenery, , check the quality of that road dude, top notch.
This too started that way.
Now see how greenery has changed everything.

You are very wrong about me..my focus is on the road...the red soil at the other side of the road has nothing to do the road itself..I am judging the road...
Greenery as a standard of development is just silly...Dubai is not a green city

Shma:
http://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/Economic_Brief_-_The_Africa_Infrastructure_Development_Index.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjz46WzuLDpAhXXAGMBHQ11BBIQFjAMegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw01jWKXIVJeTzFHOjYDpGjg

Smaller countries tends to do well on this type of index plus you cook your book and your figures cannot be trusted..for instance you claim to.live longer than us when higher percentage of your pop has no access to clean water compared to ours...we have better hospitals than Kenya and more doctors per capita but yet you claim to live longer with better healthcare infastructure..lol look at your isolation centre and weep for Kenya..a known zoo
..lol I Laugh in Spanish....a look a your zoo infastructure on a grand scale and One would be so disappointed...
Nigeria takes more on infastructural project than you zoo..fact
Watch and learn woman...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJLGIOX4ow

rvp2018:
You want to see the zebra marking on the side - that is not Kenya style.

That road looks 98% completed but yet it looks so hideous...Tema motorways in Ghana is about 95% complete but the beauty radiates everywhere..not this faded,mud stained ugly road you have up there...Kenya should learn abeg..I am tired of always lecturing on what infastructures should look like

Shma:
no road in nigeria come close to that, the road is still under construction and looks modern.
Give it one or two months after greenery has been initiated in it. Then come back with the same image.

It's very ,very ugly...that is all I can tell you.
You can keep decieving yourself..

rvp2018:
exactly.

There is nothing like exactly here ..start from the scratch which is basic brt and Rid nairoslum of the menace of that choatic, madness inclined matatus...
Light rail shouldn't even be envisaged now except your sticky fingers is look to plunge into more Chinese debt...
Light rail as always been dead on the drawing board..sorry this time it dies on 3d rendering


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTJibwqlkT4

Shma:
Wow.!
No road in west Africa can match this
We are now left to plant grass and flowers alongside it. And decorate the round- about

Stop the nonsense hype that road is ugly..roads in Senegal, Nigeria,Ghana,Cape Verde, ivory coast looks better than that grotesque hodgepodge..

Shma:
okay, I shortened it simply because almost a page or so disappeared on submission process, I felt f*cked up hence giving you a precise answer .
Okay, you said you're ahead of kenya in airport, road, hospital and rail infrastructure?
Am here to prove you wrong.
Let's start with road infrastructure,

Road infrastructure
Dude, don't be deceived by cherry picked video. kenya in general has the best road infrastructure compared to Nigeria,.
Going by quality, kenya is ranked at position seven in Africa with 4.10points which is above average.
On other side, Nigeria is ranked at position 31 with 2.50 out of 7 which is low.
On Transport index in general, you need to beat Ghana before coming for kenya.,
By 2016 according to Africa bank report., Nigeria was at position 31 in Africa with 4.89 points .
Ghana was position 17 with 12.16
Kenya was position 16 with 12.19

2018,
Nigeria slightly improved to position 29 in Africa with 5.09 points
Kenya improved to position 15 with 12.09

That shows how laggard your country is, the reason Ghana airport has to stand on behalf of your biggest airport Muhammad simply because it lacked facilities to withstand hash climatic condition.

Electricity infrastructure index,
Kenya was at 29th position with 3.49point
Nigeria was at 30th position with 2.72points
The reason Nigeria worship generators.

ICT
Kenya was at position 9 with 29.19points
Nigeria at position 12 in Africa with 25.450point

African telecom infrastructure index,
Nigeria was at position 22 in Africa
Kenya was at position 18 in Africa.

Water supply and sanitation
We are both in the middle gap, but slightly ahead of us.
Nigeria at position 34 with (44.06points)
Kenya at position 40 with (40.43points)

And you forgot one thing, sea port.
Nigeria is not close to Mombasa sea port, talk less of upcoming mega lamu port.

When it comes to health, to me infrastructure don't matter most.
As long as we have best health caresystem than you, high life expectancy than you other things won't matter to me.

To conclude, there is a reason why kenya is ahead of Nigeria in all aspects, and the above logic says it all.
If you're not certain about what I wrote, check out the content in this link
http://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/Economic_Brief_-_The_Africa_Infrastructure_Development_Index.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjz46WzuLDpAhXXAGMBHQ11BBIQFjAMegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw01jWKXIVJeTzFHOjYDpGjg

You wanted to write me a novel.lol i would have just cancelled it and advices you to keep it succinct next time..
Yes we have better roads, airport, hospitals than you as I earlier stated..
We have more roads, airport, hospitals,rails under construction than Kenya...and even the existing ones are more and looks better than Kenya's..
Our hospitals are better than yours ,thanks to pragmatic leadership which has triggered prudent decision aimed at bettering the live of the citizen...we also have more doctors per capita than your certified zoo..SAme with roads and rails..
Below was your attempt in constructing an intersection but like every other thing in Kenya it winds up hideous as anticipated..very underwhelming and completely uninspiring..

gallivant:
True but I am for a proper metro rail system. BRT is a band aid solution but that's just my opinion.

Brt is used everywhere even in developed countries.. implement it and enjoy a sane life within a city..stop all the matatu madness.its archaic