Cmanforall: Just imagine this beautiful structure mostly powered by Generator. I bet the dependence on the national electric power will be close to zero.
I wish a government will just enter power to ensure steady power supply in one of the powerful nations in Africa.
You will think that the governor will prioritise electricity, sewage and water supply and let private companies build their own office building. Nigeria must be the only country where monorails and skyscrapers ae more important than electricity.
Malami and Magu, have both messed up the $10 billion P&ID case.
This is the issues that should concern all Nigerian, instead of collaborating as a team to defend the interest of Nigeria, they are fighting each other over how to share the country commonwealth.
The country has oil and gas that can produce the hydrocarbon feedstocks for the drugs. Numerous universities and research labs that can easily obtain the license to produce generic HIV drugs.
tillaman: Sadly they won’t help support the young man, imagine what this guy can do if the govt gives him adequate support, we need to start buying our own products, the pandemic made us realise that we have to be self sufficient Na OYO every country dey
Why not setup a gofundme to support him. Talking we get us nowhere?
AreaFada2: Actually Nigeria is not the only country that didn't develop a viable petrochemical industry. Venezuela has the largest oil deposit. More than Saudi Arabia. Another big oil producer Algeria also did not. Libya neither.
However, it does not mean we should pride ourselves in being in the worst company in that respect. We should have done way more. Let's be honest. Most developing countries do not have the know how. We did not even do much to acquire knowhow.
Most medicines do not come from petrol anymore. Biotechnology has taken over. Still most countries use petroleum primarily for energy.
Can't we learn from failure of Tinapa? It was a state Gov programme which could have been better conceived in terms of location, scale, orientation, transportation, etc. When you know the rapacious corruption of most Nigerians in the past few decades till now, the cost should not surprise you.
My question is as it is, do we just refuse to do anything because of potential disadvantages and look "ayanyan" as the whole world surges past us?
Criticisms are many and we Nigerians are all experts in it. But what are the solutions?
If Nigeria intends to develop a tourist industry maybe they can start by protecting the remaining rainforests in the country and the animals that live in them. Implement a reforestation program and wildlife protection should be the first stage to developing a tourist industry.
Recently they discovered rare Gorilla's in cross river state, maybe the state government can partner with WWF to repackage Tinapa with the rare Gorrila's and protect the remaining rainforests and ban the export of timber.
AreaFada2: Actually Nigeria is not the only country that didn't develop a viable petrochemical industry. Venezuela has the largest oil deposit. More than Saudi Arabia. Another big oil producer Algeria also did not. Libya neither.
However, it does not mean we should pride ourselves in being in the worst company in that respect. We should have done way more. Let's be honest. Most developing countries do not have the know how. We did not even do much to acquire knowhow.
Most medicines do not come from petrol anymore. Biotechnology has taken over. Still most countries use petroleum primarily for energy.
Can't we learn from failure of Tinapa? It was a state Gov programme which could have been better conceived in terms of location, scale, orientation, transportation, etc. When you know the rapacious corruption of most Nigerians in the past few decades till now, the cost should not surprise you.
My question is as it is, do we just refuse to do anything because of potential disadvantages and look "ayanyan" as the whole world surges past us?
Criticisms are many and we Nigerians are all experts in it. But what are the solutions?
I agree Nigeria must learn from failure and find solutions to their problems, but that process starts with a change in cultural values, there was a time when Nigerians only believed in superstition and sold themselves as slaves then a critical change started with the advent of African missionaries introducing Christian values, education and modern values. I am not a Christain but aware of its values and benefit.
Nothing will change if the politician that control the policies are criminals.
If you are looking for solutions, start with the Nigerian government engaging with Nigeria in the diaspora, professionals with nothing less than 20 years experience working at the highest level in business, government and academia to invest a minimum of $100000 in the country, the government will ring-fence the investments with access to soft loans.
Tinapa was a state programme, they tried to invite private investors but most private investors are afraid to work with the Nigerian government, the level of corruption and incompetence is shocking and depressing.
Biotechnology is a technology process to design drugs using biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products. The feedstocks to produce the drugs are from hydrocarbons which come from fossil fuel or( oil and gas).
https://sciencenotes.org/petrochemicals-in-medicine/ Drugs Rely on Petrochemistry In 1897, German chemistry Felix Hoffman synthesized aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), one of the most widely used, safest, and effective drugs in the modern world. The synthesis of aspirin opened a new world of drug chemistry. Petrochemicals cumene, phenol, benzene, and other aromatics are used to make not only aspirin, but also penicillin and cancer-fighting drugs. Ultimately, most drugs are organic molecules made using petrochemical polymer. Those that are not are often purified using petrochemical resins. Polymers are used to make pill capsules and coatings. Time-release drugs rely on a tartaric acid-based polymer that slowly dissolves, administering just the right dose of medication. Drug packaging, made using plastics, keeps medication sterile, child-resistant, and safe from accidental breakage.
AreaFada2: Haba! Ah. Nuclear ke? Una Don fit run Kainji Dam finish? You must be a clown.
Nuclear analogy is way too "nuclear and explosive".
Nobody said tourism will take off mightily right away. Tourist safe zones can be created. Like Tinapa, Lekki, some game reserves, etc. With special tourist police like in Thailand. Nobody not on suicide mission will head to Sambisa forest just yet, as good a game reserve it used to be.
With baby steps, we can effectively police the initial few tourists. Even if we take out 5k people from the jobless population through employment so created, it's a contribution to peace. If we get discouraged by the scale of challenges facing us, we will never start.
The biggest war within countries in modern times is war of poverty. Jobs alleviate poverty.
Oil is losing importance as the world is going green, tax revenues low from poor economy and the youth do not want to farm. So should we not consider other things that resource poor countries like Morocco, Tunisia, Thailand, The Maldives, The Gambia and Thailand have harnessed so well?
Oil isn't losing its relevance. The medical drugs that you depend on is a product of oil and gas. Nigeria must be the only oil-exporting nation that failed to develop an effective petrochemical industry from its vast oil resources, Nigeria pharmaceutical industries depend on imported petrochemical petrol chemical feedstock from India and Bangladesh, Nigeria is a major oil supplier to India. Please do some research on the petrochemical industries in India, Taiwan, Qatar and South Korea.
There's nothing wrong in being resource-rich if the people are civilised and sensible. Canada and Australia are resource-rich, developed and productive
Back to the main subject, you said Nigeria should embark on baby development steps " Like Tinapa, Lekki, some game reserves, etc. With special tourist police like in Thailand."
Well, thanks for highlighting the issues of Tinapa. Tinapa was designed to be a tourist city, yet despite $700 million investment and good rail links Tinapa is a complete and abject failure, it goes without saying that you need more than infrastructures and goodwill to sell tourism to the world.
The Nigerian story to the world is corruption, poverty, Boko Haram, incompetence leaders and indiscipline people, a tourist has many choices to select from.
A CNN report in 2010 showed that the complex was still largely empty, while interest payments on the construction cost of the complex was rising. Governor Liyel Imoke told a CNN reporter that the state government was looking for private sector investors who would run the project more efficiently.
A May 2011 report from the Daily Trust was entitled "Tinapa is dying". It said most of the shops had closed, and the other facilities such as the exhibition space and movie studio had not been used for a long time. The hotel was open but hardly had any guests. Only the water park was busy, since the reporter had visited during a school holiday.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinapa_Resort
Ojiofor: I should be asking you that question.This is from the post.and I quote below.
After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future.
According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance.
But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria.
I ask you again now that you know I read the post,Did Zik wake up from his grave to oppose Yoruba and Hausa people that wrote 1999 constitution from inserting secession clause into our new constitution? Why must you all continue living in the past when you can make tomorrow better?
Enahoro is Bini.
The fact that Igbos opposed the succession clause is part of the reason why Nigeria is a mess today.
AreaFada2: Remember when mobile telephony first became popular in the 1990s?
Nigeria then rejected the notion arguing that criminals and armed robbers will be using it to communicate. While people in Benin Republic were using it (including people selling petrol in bottles by the roadside, I saw it myself) in the 1990s, Nigeria didn't have GSM. But we later embraced it.
We cannot be defeatists. Everything we benefit from today also have disadvantages. Without a decent tourist industry we have sexual crimes. Uwa was raped and murdered in Benin. Another girl has just been murdered in Illorin. Human trafficking is a big issue in 9ja. Done largely by local based in 9ja and abroad. You cannot totally prevent any crime. But you can minimise it greatly. Make a harsh example of anyone caught.
Defeatist ...lol, more like awareness and realist.
A country must know it's level.
GSM is a poor analogy, try using a nuclear power plant, you wouldn't recommend Nigeria develop a nuclear power industry, with the knowledge of Nigeria poor maintenance records and culture, the consequence of nuclear failure and fallout is unimaginable.
As you rightly stated without a decent tourist industry we have sexual crimes across the country, imagine what it will look like with tourist industry in a country that cannot enforce the law on its own citizen, yet will be expected to enforce the law on foreigners.
Nigeria needs a reboot, fix the society or at least start trying, tourism will not even thrive in a country that is at war with itself. Tourist thrives in a peaceful and progressive country.
AreaFada2: Any serious country will learn from the downside seen in Thailand and put measures in place. Very strict laws will be in place. In exchange for free visa, foreigners will submit DNA and biometric data upon entry if visiting for the first time. Returning tourists will already have data collected before.
Do you know how many hundreds of thousands already die of poverty that may benefit from jobs and wealth created by tourism? Tourists will spend in hotels, eat and drink in bars, restaurants, buy souvenirs and use transportation.
If we go by online pornography including child abuse, exposure of kids to vile stuff online, online radicalisation leading to mass killings, scam/fraud/yahoo, infidelity, murder by people met on social media and other ills, we should forgo ICT too. You cannot throw away the baby with the bathwater dude.
I saw this article in The Guardian today and I recalled your post from last years. It's very hard to avoid the journey of Thailand, Dominica Republic and now Kenya if your country is poor and underdeveloped. Tourism in poor countries has a serious downside.
Kenya calls for help in fight against rising sexual abuse by foreigners Anti-trafficking organisations say widespread trust in white outsiders makes children an easy target for abusers from the west
Child protection organisations in Kenya say more needs to be done to protect young people from exploitation by overseas perpetrators, as the country reports a rising number of abuse cases.
The warning follows the arrest of Gregory Dow, a 61-year-old missionary, who last month pleaded guilty in a US court to sexually abusing girls at an orphanage he ran in Kenya.
It also comes after Kenyan authorities charged a 71-year-old German national in May on counts of trafficking, defilement, indecent acts and child pornography.
Mueni Mutisya, the head of Kenya’s anti-human trafficking and child protection unit, which launched in 2016, said that between 2018 and 2019, the unit rescued 230 children from local and international perpetrators. She told the Guardian that trust in white people by many Kenyans, particularly in those offering to support their families, makes children an easy target for abusers from the west.
“The black people here view the whites as superior beings, and the whites know that and they take advantage,” said Mutisya.
“These are people that are living in abject poverty, so when someone promises that they’re going to get your children an education, that they’re going to feed you, these people will go for that,” she said.
Nigerians will blame govt for the way Nigeria is. from Malay, Cambodia, Indonesia, Cyprus, Turkey,USA, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana na always Nigerians. Why why why . A disgrace of a people
The youths are emulating government. Tinubu, Shetima and Danjuma are all role model for criminals and thieves.
yinkus6750: Very welcome development What they can't do in SA, they take us for granted and continue making so much money that they take back home. Never knew Startines was owned by NTA, let's promote our own. HITV came and we all switched, guess he could manage his success, and went off. Not only them, mobile networks also, data is becoming so expensive
Has NTA ever made a profit?
Open the digital playing field and let all TV channels compete.
The government is only trying to justify the $500 million NTA loan that they will share among themselves.
Artiiclebeast: Barth Nnaji was set to be the best Power Minister and then no one heard of him anymore.
I wonder why he left the government. Was it a case of conflict of interest?
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Barth Nnaji cannot be trusted. He was working as the minister of power at the same time diverting funding into Geometric.
GEOMETRIC POWER is the pioneer in Nigerian Power Industry. The first Independent Power transmission Station in the country,
The first IPP is Azura-Edo:
The Azura-Edo IPP is a 461MW Open Cycle Gas Turbine power station near Benin City in Edo State, Nigeria. It is Phase 1 of a 1,500MW IPP facility located on a 100 hectare site, large enough to accommodate future expansion of the power plant.
I can't blame him from resigning, imagine working for the idiot like Mele Kyari that can't explain why the oil refineries are not working after 20 years.
Mele Kyari, the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says the country is working on building a condensate refinery towards the goal of self-sufficiency in refined petroleum products.
Speaking on Friday at a virtual conference organised by Atlantic Council, Kyari said the corporation aims to have a total refinery capacity of 200,000 barrels per day.
The GMD explained that the condensate refinery would complement production at the Dangote refinery and ongoing efforts to revive the refineries.
“I know it is a difficult thing to explain why an oil-producing country would become a net importer of petroleum products,” he said.
“The reason is very simple, we couldn’t fix our refineries and that is also very difficult to explain, we started this many years ago. For 20 years, all attempts to get the refineries fixed failed for many reasons.
“There was a strategy problem. We have now changed our strategy. We are fixing our refineries, we don’t have all the cash to put there but we are going to do is to get a partnership with others to put their money as investors and they’ll get their money out of the refinery.
“We are taking steps to bring in a condensate refinery which are just splitter plants, easy to fix and within a maximum of three years, you can have one in place.
“By July, we are sure that we are going to have final investment decision on one of them, we are looking at a total capacity of 200,000 barrels per day, the first one is going to be about 50,000 barrels.
“The implication of these is that within three years, this country would be sufficient in the supply of finished petroleum products after that, we’ll be looking for markets. We know that we can deliver on this.”
Kyari also said President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed readiness to see that the petroleum industry governance bill is passed by the end of 2020.
This readiness, he said, is also present in the two legislative chambers adding that the senate and house of representatives wanted the bill passed by July but the COVID-19 pandemic caused a setback.
As parts of efforts to reform the sector and create a competitive environment, Kyari said there would be a licensing round in 2021 after the PIGB has shown investors the opportunities available in the country.
“I know for sure that there would be a licensing round that will come next year. We are working on our petroleum legislation to make sure that before the end of this year, we have the petroleum legislation in place in such a way that there is visibility around what investors can expect,” he said.
Reacting to misconceptions about the hospital construction embarked on by the NNPC, Kyari said the construction is part of the corporation’s corporate social responsibility projects; not that the NNPC is diversifying into the healthcare sector.
DuBLINGreenb: Won't happen but las las hush done chop money, flex life, lived lavish, flown choppers, flown private, had the most exotic cars, mingled with celebs obtained connections, became a known international brand.
No jail can take that away from him, if he comes out of prison he will be better than most poor Nigerians because he has a platform, he has connections, he has experience, he is known and so on. He won't be starting from square 1
He can write a bestseller book, be a TV host, sing music people will buy, sell his story to American media companies, work for security organisations abroad etc
Most Nigerians live in houses worst than American prisons me typing this have not seen electricity in 42 hours straight, I paid aboki 50 bucks to charge my phone, American prisons have 24/7 electricity, gym, free TV, free laundry services, free phone calls and free food that is why black Americans even the celebs see jail as an achievement as street cred status bringer
how many haven't been to jail? you tell me as we speak many US celebs are in jail including Steven Spielberg's daughter, R Kelly, Da baby etc Even Robert Downey Jr, Lil Kim, tommy Lee, Mark Wahlberg have all been to U.S prison Their prison is not like our own many come out of jail looking better than they did before they went in.
Those quoting me will chose 10 - 15 years in American prison and a lifetime of living lavish for themselves and their family without thinking twice over being a poor Nigerian from birth to death.
Ask yourself what odds hushpuppi had of being as rich as he was without doing what he did? We all know majority of Nigerians will be born into poverty and will die in poverty but we all want to delude ourselves by thinking "I will be the one to make it" niggger that's what the other 100,000,000 dead Nigerians before you thought, you think every poor Nigerian chose to be poor? or they don't know your God or another one is "if he didn't do crime he would be enjoying by now!" Nigguh enjoying what exactly
Simple question please how many Nigerian lawyers do you know richer than or even half as rich as Hushpuppi? Even the celebs how many of them where as rich as hush? Only the very top 1%
Another quick question? Ask them how many years and how much suffering, and how much connections etc it took them to get that degree and then that position and if the pay for those without connection is adequate, do the same for every other profession except clergy and politicians
And decide for yourself what chance the vast majority of Nigerians have of becoming millionaires or even hundred thousandnaires ?
I'm not encouraging crime please don't do crime but let us be realistic in our thoughts and speech,
I thought if you go to school you must be rich until I was in a slum and a woman told me she did her youth service in taraba, I was surprised I was like wtf excuse me, she said yes she served in.... She didn't know I was thinking shocked thinking to myself "how did you go to school for 17+ years only to end up in this slum in this poverty" I assumed everyone in slums where uneducated never do wells, miscreants etc.
Imagine if she, like most young girls were compelled to sleep with lecturers for grades, or sorted to pass and all that thinking riches were ahead of them upon graduation only to end up in a slum without husband and children hey this isn't fiction this lady was quarrelling with another non educated woman the other day I recorded what the women were using to insult her. Her lack of husband and children she kept saying she sacrificed all that for school and her future but you decide if this is a future worth losing sleep for, worth losing meaningful relationships for
Don't worry out of respect and privacy I didn't show her face.
Extra fun fact did you know?? Nigeria made more money from Yahoo boys in 2019 than from Agriculture think about it.
I will rather be a free poor man, than a prison slave. With freedom, I have the power to free myself from the economic and mental bondage perpetrated by the Nigerian government.
tamdun: This is why I said Naija is failing, they denied the poor job opportunity because festus refused to bribe them. Our youths better wake up, this thieves won't have much impact on us but our next generation go...
The government shouldn't be creating jobs beyond the jobs that will allow them to provide their services such as customs, public services, revenue collection, education etc.
774K jobs in a country that produces jack?
The government should focus on repairing the refineries, building the power stations and rail networks.
omlueh: Edo can never be Lagos of course, all politicians are same and Bastards, but the only previleage Obaseki will enjoy is saying no to god fatherism which Oshimhole really and outrightly condemed and kick against
Nonsense, Oshimhole wants to be godfather and the continuation of Tinubu as the grandfather (or oga at the top)
yinkus6750: Where is Dimeji Bankole? Former senior top citizen of the Nation? Refined gentleman, good politician. Guess his political career just ended like that. Missed him somehow. Nigerian politics can really mess you up.
His son was a fraud, lied about his academic achievements and was a limited speaker of the house. He has made some much money from politics that I doubt he wants to come back.
Arewa1408: Are you there to do something for your community or for your Country. Buhari did not do anything for his community. He is incompetent but what he has going for him is the fact he is not "Personally" corrupt. Aikhomu was very corrupt just like his boss Babangida. Very corrupt set of people.
I know Aikhomu children, they were living like gods in Nigeria and the UK.Aikhomu was corrupt.
Ijaya123: Now ask yourself how much are the Discos collecting from the Gencos and TCN and you will see them as the fraud that they are. They prefer to give you crazy estimated billings for the light they are not giving you.
The DISCO is 40% owned by the government. The energy privatisation was a joke. Decentralised energy generation and distribution to the regions and let them engage private investors directly.
HappyCanadian: What are u saying? how many people get money to buy Gen, maintain it and continuously fuel it and do you know how much it costs to mount solar that can power several household appliance, how many people can afford that?.. this is not rocket science? It is the responsibility of the government to provide steady power supply and that is where we should start from.
Focus electricity on the people and businesses that can afford to pay for electricity, let the businesses create jobs and employ millions of Nigeria that cannot afford electricity. Nigeria poor need jobs first.
After 60 years of self-rule has it not dawn on you that Nigeria government can never fix the power grid even if they tried. NEPA has always been a problem even in the 1970s when Nigeria population was less than 60 million.
Sunnycliff: I can imagine if it was a southerner in power
They will say that the Southern leaders were intentionally neglecting the North, at no stage will Northerner take personal responsibilities for their failures and underdevelopment.
Buhari has been in government for more than fives years, the entire security architecture is controlled by Northerners, from the defence academy to 90% of the COAS are Northerners yet the security situation has deteriorated.
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