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Nigeria to dredge Niger River

ABUJA, Nigeria, Sept. 10 (UPI) --
Nigeria began dredging hundreds of miles on the Niger River to make it navigable to transport goods from the coast to remote interior villages, officials say.

The 2,600-mile-long Niger is the third longest in Africa, starting in Guinea and flowing through Niger, Mali and along the Benin border before reaching Nigeria.

The Nigerian government says the 355-mile dredging project from Baro to Warri also will bring communities together, lessen flooding and improve water flow for hydroelectric power plants, the BBC reported Thursday. Others have contended it could harm the livelihoods of river bank dwellers, the British network said.

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, speaking at a ceremony held in Lokoja to kick of the decades-in-the-making project, said the dredging would ensure “all-year-round navigability.”

“It will provide an attractive, cheaper and safer means of haulage of goods, while engendering linkages and promoting trading activities between adjoining communities,” he said.

The dredging is expected to take six to eight months.

http://mobile.timesoftheinternet.com/109423.html



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Published: Thursday 10th of September 2009 06:21:27 PM

IBB is the father of decadence in Nigerian polity. Most Nigerian politician want to be like IBB, the quintessential Nigerian politician, if you will.

Source or link please.

Any reference benchmark - daily/weekly/monthly expectation per community, city, or state? You must have some kind of yardsick in order to measure improvements or the lack thereof.

Is this victim a relative of the ex-gov of akwa-ibom? Maybe that's the motive,

Nonetheless, a sad sad state of affairs. Doctors may go on strike, if this continues.

In time Fashola will handle this issue as well - he's smarter than any agbero, or group thereof.

SapeleGuy:
I agree - blame the 110 kw power project on a vanguard typographic error.

My bad! I didn't open your link. Some times you wonder if these news papers actually have editors, it's amazing the amount of typo and grammatical errors in Nigerian news papers.

SapeleGuy:
CNN are Wrong, dem dey talk lie. Gloryland Castle is a state tourism project. The house doesn't belong to Sylva.


"Our plan is to dove-tail the Gloryland Castle into the wider vision of Yenagoa of the immediate future, which will be a showpiece city for all Nigerians and the rest of the world to come and enjoy life with a lot to see,” he explained.

Perhaps in the next four years, Yenagoa will become one of the most beautiful cities in Nigeria if plans afoot are anything to go by. An international airport is being constructed, specifically for cargo operations because Bayelsa is aiming to become the largest producer of paddy rice in Africa in partnership with Thai and Vietnamese experts. It also wants to become the largest producer of fish, in league with Israeli experts.

The airport will serve as a major import and export route when plans to redesign the state’s economy from oil and gas to agriculture, commerce and tourism come to fruition."

The state is also constructing a 32-kilometre dual express from the airport into the rear of the city where the new Yenagoa is springing up. The state’s 110 kilowatt electricity supply project is expected to switch on fully next year, making it more than self-sufficient in power supply."

[url]http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/28/yar’-adua-to-sleep-in-bayelsa’s-n20b-castle/[/url]

I hope this actually materializes for the people of the state - God knows they deserve a better life. But "110 kilowatt electricity supply project"? This does not sound like a project to me – more like a large generator. The smallest air conditioner requires at least 1 kVA aprox. 1 kilowatt of power. So is Yenegoa a very small town?

Moderator please move this to the tribalism section - sjeezy8 is in the house!

It's down the drain from here, on.

He was not tricked at all, quite on the contrary, he's being dieing to show it off - You can tell from his exuberance.

This is the typical mentality of the Nigerian political elite – build mansions, live in a paradise, and opulence, while surrounded with misery and abject poverty.

Fhemmmy:
Even without fact, it is common sense.

seconded!
It is quite obvious that's there's been urbanization in Nigeria for a while now for the reasons you've stated here, and possibly more.

Too big a shoe, and too tall an order.

of course he's rich - from kickbacks during his days as NLC leader. While the masses are marching in the hot sun for social change, the bastard was busy making personal monetary deals with the government to derail labor unions agenda. Now he some how wants to be taken seriously by pandering stupidly to those that see him for what he truely is - A thug!

He has nothing to offer the people of Edo state - so he'll be out come next election. Like everyone else in AC, the Edo peolpe thought his fight for the common man (pseudo ofcourse), was needed in the state. I knew he was a fake from day one.

I on the other hand, would rather the states have more autonomy, like the states in the US. True federalism, with autonomous resource control, and taxes paid to the federal government. Fashola is creating a model state today with little or no support from the federal government – you can’t have a better progressive agenda!

Secession tendencies to me, seems more like a cowardice copout – this is our country we can not let some 1% of the population dictate our future. The political elites and oligarchs are the bad guys – they are constantly using the oldest socio-political tool to rule us, they have succeeded in using divide and rule! But the vale of darkness is slowly being removed from the faces of the masses – Gani of blessed memory has contributed immensely as it relates to justice for all, he literally spend his entire career fighting injustice perpetrated against the not-so fortunate ; Seun is doing his part with his love for IT – creating a forum for meaningful discourse on how to make Nigeria better; you are contributing with your google earth analysis to debunk politicized census figures – so you see if we all contribute in some constructive way, we can change the tide, and take this country back from the unscrupulous few. Can you imagine a time when affordable broadband (>64kbps) internet access penetration equates to mobile phone penetration. It would mean most Nigerians would have a voice – I for one believe information and knowledge is power.

@George_D,
Try all you want, you're not going to convince this Nigerian that this communist goat is not a hypocrite of the worse kind. So quit trying

Whilst becomrich dooms day theory is totally unfounded, and may even border around lunacy – his census analysis is right on the money. You don’t build structures and communities unless people will use and inhabit them. So you can make very credible conclusions on census figures by merely calculating the areas with buildings and structures. And this is precisely what he has done. In the absence of credible census figures from the Nigerian census bureau, his analysis will suffice.

@becomrich
My only advice though, would be that you keep the pics small – maybe crop the areas you need to support your assertion. This way your Campaign will be read by more people – those with 3G mobile access to the internet are charged per kbps. And also stay away from the dooms day theory - it is a turn off, most NLers don’t wish for it. Leave all the politics to the politicians for now, and concentrate on attainable facts (like you've done for the most part with your maps). When you become president, we'll need you to have some political approach to some problems, but for the most part most Nigerians just need straight talkers.

He will be greatly missed – we have just lost a passionate socio-economic activist, who spent most of his life fighting injustice.
It is a Sad day for those without voices and those ignored in our society.
A true Champion of the people!

Extra! Extra!! Read all about it!!! Our beloved GoogleEarth guru formerly known as Becomrich, hereby wishes to be called the “Great Nigerian Nostradamus” Please take note - he has earned it.

Nostra would you be kind enough to spend some of your free time calculating the amount of kWatt hours (or MWatt Hour) required for all the cities - this way we can debunk PHCN numbers for total consumption. you have some of the input data already. I will be more than happy to help if you have some questions.

The other side of the coin might mean dollar speculators dumping their dollar stash to make a quick profit before the market is actually glutted by the feds. Thereby creating the surplus in the market the Feds sort – just a layman’s thought.

The current is not transmitted - it is only generated at the device through magnetic induction.

BTW there's nothing new here - all transformers work through magnitic induction. Current through Coil A generates current in coil B - so you can step down or up depending on the ratio of copper turns in coil A to Coil B. In essence an electromagnetic source can generate magnetic fields in a coil at some distance (small however) - all electrical souces generate some level of EMF, hence shielding on cables, and in your home electrical appliances.

I am not shocked at all – how can you apply the same logic to a simple problem and some how expect a different result. More often than not the product of corruption is just
another corruption…you can extrapolate all you want; you’ll end up with corruption.

Hypocrisy has no bounds!

I especially like this parable…

That is what the Yoruba call "Abenilori ko ni je ki won gbe ida koja lori oun" (the man whose job is to cut off people head with sword will neva allow somebody to joke with him with sword)

Do you think that any of the atrocities these goons have perpetrated upon the Nigerian people is new? They are not – it is just now coming to light thru blogs, forums such as this one. Thanks to IT experts for their unselfish contribution to making Nigeria a better place. These contributions maybe small in your view; but positive solutions nonetheless. When they come to my neck of the woods with bogus claims, I call up my friends, and we disrupt their meetings, and call them out for what they are. That’s my small contribution. They are operating with impunity in a lot of places because no one dares to embarrass them – and let them know that come election, they’ll have no chance. Yes INEC is marred with corruption, but why are the masses not on the streets protesting? And yet in some wacky and convoluted rational, proponents of secession think they can garner enough support from the masses. Rubbish!

If this logic is to be plausible at all, we’ll need to break it up into at least 250 components, minimum. And that’s just absurd!

The problem with Nigeria is not that the people can not live together; we’ve done that for thousands of years without annihilating each other. Our elected leaders are the problem- they’ve hijacked the constitution, and corrupted the systems that should uphold it. The time spent suggesting useless panaceas, that would amount to nothing should be used to find ways we can hold our elected officials to the grind. Nairaland is certainly an excellent forum to disgrace the bastards – comments posted here can be googled! So that record stays with them for years to come. If they are crooked we should call them out, on blogs, news comments, at gatherings (don’t get beat down by thugs, though ), if you see them at public places insult the bastards…the list of what we can do to this crooks goes on. Please refrain from trying to split the country, it wont work…Ojukwu tried it, and he got millions of innocent people killed.

Just don't understand why all the hoopla - justice seems to be taking its course in the mean time.

Could it be that the general public is so dissatisfied with our judicial mediocrity that they feel at the end she’ll be exonerated with just a slap on her wrist – hence the tendency to want to wring her through an extra judicial process?

And on the other hand, are the proponents or friends of the Ibrus, as it were, trying to sway public opinion their way – so that at the end, it is business as usual?

My take is that every Nigerian has the right to fair trial as guaranteed in the 1999 constitution.

Let’s move on, we have other big fishes to fry. We can re-visit this if justice is denied – good or bad for the Ibrus.

She'll be fine - she's getting special treatment from her doctor,

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=010909&ptitle=Bank%20chiefs%20in%20the%20dock

, Before adjourning the matter, Justice Abutu also directed that Cecilia Ibru should have unrestricted access to her doctor.

Cry me a river Yar’Adua!
What’s the point inviting him to a meeting when he’ll have no meaningful contribution to the discourse of the day. I think they are actually saving him the embarrassment. Moreover his health is deteriorating – The real “Dead Man Walking!”

@biina
I see where your are coming from now - you'd rather not consider/discuss tribalism. This is a ploy in the polity of those dominating leadership. Most white Americans would rather not have any meaningful discourse on race relations in the US - they will rather just dismiss any notion of racism in the US. But just attend any of the town hall meetings on Health care reform, or listen to mainstream media. The demagoguery is shocking!

Dismissing the fact that tribalism exists in our polity is simply disingenuous. It is obligatory upon the Northern political elites, by virtue of their domination in the leadership of Nigeria, to show transparency in appointments. Not to merely follow previous leadership agenda. Yar A’dua could have found other qualified southern candidates for CBN governorship, especially after he has filled all other main leadership positions with Northerners. SLS might be the brightest guy for the position, but he also has a mandate from his boss – and it may not entirely be to ensure a better banking sector for all Nigerians. But let’s see where this takes us.

Worst Gov in the South - and a bleeping hipocrite in my book. The state is worse off - too much hot air from this goat!

ocelot2006:
That is simply NOT possible. Compared to the EFCC that is just a baby in comaprison with other agencies, the Nigeria Police Force boasts of a whole wealth of knowledge and experience in law-enforcement, intelligence gathering, and a whole lot of activities that dates from the 1800s to the present period. Hell, the then National S ecurity Organisation (NSO) which was later dissolved to form the State Security Service (SSS) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) (and in some part, the Defence Intelligence Agency DIA) were ALL created from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). And guess what, these agencies were first staffed by police officers and will always be staffed by officers (except for the DIA that is now under the full control of Defence HQ/Military). Even the EFCC that you talk about is manned and controlled by the NPF at the very top and at core positions. You simply cannot replace the NPF with the EFCC. The EFCC is just made up of lawyers and other civilians, while the main law-enforcing arm of that agency which handles the main arrests is being handled by a unit of the Nigeria Mobile Police (MOPOL), which in turn is a branch of the NPF. You simply cannot do away with the NPF. It won't work.

By the way, we already have our own form of the US FBI, and that is the SSS. The only difference is that the Nigerian SSS combines similar activities of the US Secret Service (VIP Protection) with that of the FBI (Internal Intelligence Gathering, Counter-Espionage, Law-enforcement). Other activities like money laundering is handled by the NDLEA along with its primary role of counter-narcotics.

The NPF is too old, too corrupt, and dilapidated to fix - and it is not working! State and city policing by a local law enforcement entities would work better. And yes the good ones out of the local enforcement should be promoted to the National level. If the structure is changed completely, then there is oportunity to raise the entry requirements into the force - why continue to build on a shaky foundation, when it will be cheaper to start another solid foundation with all the new technology availabe. Policing works in the US, we should copy their system.

bleeping hypocrite