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jp philips: so because bayelsa and Delta failed, rivers should fail too.
I already know you have an undeveloped brain but I never knew it was this bad.

thank you for accepting those states have failed. Mine has'nt!

I was banned..for my comments on this thread. I honestly don't know what i did to warrant that. I demand an explanation.

And by the way, i'm back; so watch the rubbish you say and lies you tell.

Rivers State to launch 21.84Bn Farm
Sunday, 04 March 2012 16:04Ignatius Chukwu
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What may be Africa’s largest, most modern, highly mechanized farm settlement and processing complex to be constructed by Israeli experts with over N21.84Bn ($140m) is to take off in a part of Rivers State.
BusinessDay gathered that the new centre is expected to be bigger than the famed Songhai International Farm Complex in Porto Novo, Benin Republic, by over 300 times, and 10 times bigger than the N4.7Bn Songhai Rivers.
The centre is to be constructed and managed by the global giants and agro-engineering firm that builds agric cities, LR Group of Herzliya , Israel , in partnership with the Rivers State government, within the next 24 months. Rivers State is said to havalreadyput down $100m while LR group is to bring in $40m to kick-start the agric revolution that would involve over 3000 hectares of farm and processing centres in Etche local council area of the oil-rich state.
The multi-billion naira complex and processing centre is perhaps the biggest plan by the Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi administration to create an economy outside oil and gas. The project is to be overseen for the state by the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency that also oversees the Songhai Rivers Farm Complex in Bunu-Tai

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/111-politics/33886-rivers-state-to-launch-2184bn-farm

Nigeria: Emerging Wonders of Songhai Farm in Rivers (1)By Godwin Egba, 9 August 2011
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Port Harcourt — According to a school of thought, a leader does not force his vision on his people.
On assumption of office on October 26, 2007 to begin his mission as the new governor of Rivers State, Governor Chibuike Amaechi unfolded a checklist of his developmental vision for the Rivers people.
His mission anchored on human capital development packaged in many phases, according to him, is to pursue purposeful programme aimed at impacting positively on the lives of the people. Trust some skeptics; Amaechi was taken as a power seeker with political sophistry.
The governor outlined some key projects, namely an integrated agricultural project called songhai farm, overhauling the health and the educational sectors apart from other capital development like the Greater Port Harcourt.
One project that is giving his administration a high profile is the Songhai farm patterned after the Songhai centre in Port Novo, Benin Republic. This is a project designed to boost agricultural farming, a centre of excellence in training, production, research, demonstration and development of sustainable agriculture in Rivers State.
Four years after, how Amaechi has faired in actualisation of his pledge remains within the competence of the citizens of the state to appraise while sending his skeptics to go and rest.
Suffice it to say, however, that his government has taken certain initiatives, which give optimism that the circumstances of Rivers people are changing for the better.
The farm project sits on a 314-hectare land in Bunu-Tai, in Tai local government area of the state, an agrarian community. It is about 20 times the size of Songhai model-an integrated farm that combines livestock, arable farming, fisheries, snail farming and poultry. It also has a feeds mill, machine production and processing as well as agro-tourism components, among others.
The first phase of the project came up in 2008 when more than 105 persons were trained in different skills related to farm management while, the project is in its second phase of execution as it bubbles with activities of varied types but all connected to agriculture.
Officials say that fresh eggs' harvest, which is derived from the over 900 bird layers in active service, currently stands at an average of 450 crates per day. Aside from the eggs being available to the community's members at affordable rates, they are also sold to different communities across the state.
The farms manager, Mr Frank Abamu, said that when the poultry department of the farm is able to attain full production capacity, it would form the revenue backbone of the farm, while creating more jobs and wealth opportunities in the state.
He said that the department currently has good stock of birds such as layers, broilers, chicks, guinea fowls, Canadian geese, ducks and turkeys, whose wastes are channeled to the farm's fish ponds or used as organic fertilizers for crop growing.
Abamu expatiated that at the fish hatchery units, fish eggs were artificially fertilized to produce fingerlings of varied species, including catfish and tilapia, while a 'maggotry' was set up to produce protein-rich maggots to feed the fishes.
Besides, he said, "Grass cutters" were reared in specialized family units of four females and one male, while the African giant snail species in the world, are also reared in the farm.
The snails shell, he added are further processed into calcium for use in animal feeds. The farm also has processing facilities for rice and cassava, especially cassava, which is processed into garri, fufu, starch and ethanol.
Other variety of other crops grown in the farm include pineapples, mango, pawpaw and oranges, which are usually sold or processed into packaged juices.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201108100627.html?maneref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dshonghai%2Bfarm%252c%2Brivers%2Bstate&mstac=0

RSSDA harvests 30 hectares of maize in KPAA
The Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) flagged off its harvests at the Integrated Farm Service Centres with a call on the Agency to employ more youths in its areas of operation. The call was made by the Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Dumnamene Deekor, during the flag off ceremony at Kpaa Town in Khana Local Government Area of the State.
The Deputy Speaker,, lauded the idea behind the establishment of the RSSDA, and thanked the Agency for its projects in the rural areas. In his speech, the Council boss of Khana Local Government Area, Hon. Greg Nwidam, represented by the Supervisor of Agric., Hon. Dorka Dedam, thanked the RSSDA team for siting the Zonal Integrated Service Centre at Khana LGA. He further charged the Agency to do more, and also pledged the support of the Council to the Agency.
Speaking on behalf of the host Kpaa communities, the spokesperson for the four clans said RSSDA has done well by putting into use the large hectares of land that had been lying fallow over the years, even after they were donated to past organisations. The landlord communities also lauded the large harvest witnessed on that day.
Meanwhile, the Manager, Strategy and Planning of RSSDA, Mr Sylvester Okoh, while addressing the press, said the Integrated Farm Centres in the four major zones would service all farmers and related businesses around the area . He added that the project will also provide employment opportunities for about 350 youths per Centre. Mr Okoh stated that the State Songhai Centre still serves as the main agricultural hub in the State.
The Strategy and Planning Manager expressed optimism that, by the end of the year 2010, a total of 12,000hectares would have been cultivated on this special intervention programme.

http://www.rssda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173:rssda-harvests-30-hectares-of-maize-in-kpaa&catid=1:latest-news

Port Harcourt, September 29th, 2011– The Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency, RSSDA announces the graduation and return of 93 ICT graduates who benefited from the Governor’s Special Overseas Special Scholarship Scheme from Singapore.
These young Rivers men and women are returning with a B. Sc (ICT) of the Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom (Informatics centre campus in Singapore)
The returning IT professionals trained in areas such software engineering, computer systems security and robotics in industries. They distinguished themselves as worthy ambassadors of the state. One of the graduates, Darlton Whyte, emerged the best graduating student of the school.
Noble Pepple, Executive Director of RSSDA said ‘The Governor’s Scholarship awards have been a great intervention, offering real benefits. I have no doubt that these highly skilled ICT professionals of Rivers State origin will positively impact the human capital base of the state and the country at large’’
Over 1,000 young Rivers State men and women, including the physically challenged, all beneficiaries of the Governor’s Special Scholarship Scheme are studying abroad for degrees in various fields, such as medicine, engineering, geosciences and ICT.

http://www.rssda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=204:let-them-know-its-christmas-rssda-reaches-out&catid=1:latest-news

I am a big fan of yanni. I love his music so much and even listening to it as i write this. I have been to a number of his concerts at the taj mahal in india, the royal albert hall in london,etc.. And they were magical. I want to share this magic with nigerians who love good music so i have been campaigning hard for yanni to come and hold a concert in nigeria. I've send multiple email to him and met some of his people at their concerts. Finally i got a reply from his office, it thanked me for my love of yanni's music and my campaign to bring him to nigeria. But they made know their concern that if a concert in held in nigeria, it might be a flop because nigerians are not known to love classical or ochestra music. They say subsequentely they'll fact check their chances in nigeria and would even like some help and assurance of an interested audience for their concert. Since that response i don't know if or how i could help them in anyway, are they right in their assumption that there are no willing yanni fans in nigeria?

70 Rivers State scholars leave for Canada
The Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) sent another batch of 70 beneficiaries of the Rivers State Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme, on May 4, 2009, to Canada, to commence studies. In his short briefing with the academic beneficiaries before their departure, the Executive Director of the Agency, Mr. Bolaji Ogunseye, congratulated them for their outstanding academic performance on the basis of which they had been selected from among the thousands of other applicants for the scholarship. He stated that he was confident they would “get the Golden Fleece, come back to Nigeria, and contribute positively to society.”
Mr. Ogunseye commended Gov. Chibuike Amaechi for investing in human capital development, and reminded the prospective students that the Governor could well have expended the resources on alternative projects. He pointed out to them that the Governor’s preference to rather invest in the educational well-being of Rivers people should be reciprocated by the students as they must shun “negative tendencies” and become “ambassadors of the State while in Canada.”
Some of the parents of the academic ambassadors could not restrain themselves from expressing sincere gratitude to the Governor Amaechi-led administration for the initiative, which had provided the students, mostly from poor homes, the rare opportunity to study abroad.
Earlier this year, 100 beneficiaries had been sent to study Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Singapore. The purpose of the three-year ICT programme is to enhance the human capital base of Rivers State. On that occasion, over 4,000 applications had been received and screened by H.T Maguire, the facilitating consultancy. Though 600 applicants were considered eligible, after the training by the Singaporean experts, only 200 were successful. Passports and travel documents for the 200 were compiled by RSSDA and sent to the Singaporean embassy. Of that number, the embassy selected 100 who have since left.
Before their departure, Mr Godwin Poi, General Manager Programmes, had congratulated the beneficiaries and commended them for working hard to ensure that they came out successful during the selection process. He had also advised them to be worthy ICT professional assets after the three-year programme, performing no less than their counterparts in other parts of the world.

http://www.rssda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=172:70-rivers-state-scholars-leave-for-canada-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=212

Please somebody should tell me any other state that has fully funded sustainable development agency like this.

http://www.rssda.org

http://www.rssdangscholars.org/hcd/scholar.asp?id=scholar

talktimi: dude this thread is about ph/rivers state specifically. You obviously have a problem with Bayelsa state & or its indigents so why not open another thread focusing on Bayelsa for another lively discussion. Stop derailing this thread abeg youre turning out to be the stupid partisan attack dog yourself. Conceded, you have a right to hate Gej with a passion but lets not deny the fact that Amaechi has not been intense this tenure as he was in the first

please spare me that rubbish. If ameachi was loyal to jonathan do you think they will be attacking him like this? Apparently because other governors are his dogs, their inefficency is shielded. Nobody called timipre slyva a crook but when he fell out with jonathan and was booted out of office we were told he left 500 naira in bayelsa state account...deranged hypocites, i wonder what will be the fate of other governors when they fall out with jonathan.

PapaBrowne: ^^^^
Isn't it interesting that for a lack of quality pictures, you have to present the same dental facility you've presented for the last 4 years?
Isn't it interesting that you have to take pictures of a building that was built in the 70s as proof of Amaechi's work. I remember in the 80s going to Airforce Primary school and I passed the building you posted in the last picture every morning. To think that nothing much has changed since then is surely an indictment.

small minded person...show me a picture of anyther state with a free dental facility like this one.
Is'nt it interesting that a building built in the 70's is still standing and actively serving as the tallest and biggest state secretariat in nigeria due to the hardwork of the state government. Go and inquire of civil servants the state of that secretriate during odili's government and ameachi. Ask them when the elevators started working and full time cleaners were acquired. Meanwhile go to the federal secretariat at aba road and see the disgrace, the elevators are now backdrops from beggers and traders to display their wears, aged federal civil servants climb the impossible amount of stairs just to get to their office and as they climb they go with their lunch and every other thing they'll need through out the day because they know once they get up there. No coming down till close of work; a building of that magnitude has no central power source, each office use a little gen and a federal government building looks and sounds like a market with competing "i pass my neighbour gens" for the sake of all those who work there i pray non of those gut fire.what has the federal government led by jonathan done about that?

For the fact that your sorry ass can't be any pic from other states that beat ameachi's 250schools and healthcare centres plus other achivements: it's a bigger indictment.

It will be very pathetic to relitigate issues like this everytime any ignorant fool comes to post trash on nairaland because their state of mind is already in the gutter so arguing with them is like a race to the bottom.

But for all the lies and miguided opinions, the facts still remain standard and they are 250 model secondary and primary schools, 150 healthcare centers, a state of the art dental free hospital, abiye amesimaka stadium and sports village, stadium road, ikwerre road, ada george, okrika ring road, the RSSDA which is the largest sponsor of overseas scholarship in nigeria and giver of loan to small buisneses, the shonghai farm in tai, buguma fish farm and many more. These are facts no fool can dispute so they can keep running their nasty mouth.

awodman: That is why some of us laught it off when Amaechi says he is fighting Jonathan who has spent barely 3 years because of neglect of the over 300km East-West road

Now any body that knows port-harcourt will know that Trans amadi is the major industrial hub and the area in which the high percentage of tax accurable to rivers state comes from

An area that houses Total, Chevron,Schlumberger, hallibourton and several other multinationals is left like this and some guys here are defending amaechi..SMH

victoria island is the heart of lagos, center of commerce. Home to many corporate headquaters but it still gets flooded when it rains. Goodluck jonathan has never driven to otuoke, he flies in a chopper from port harcourt airport. What is the state of his community road? What is seriake dickson doing with his billions of naira budget? Why does'nt yenegoa have a single flyover? Bayelsa is one of the smallest states in nigeria. What are they doing with their 300 billion naira budget when other states double it's size get only a fraction of that. You guys are stupid partisan attack dogs and critics. If you want to attack inefficiency or underperformance, call out the whole pack and stop cherry picking those who oppose king jonathan.

ijaw citizen: He retreats by shifting grounds. Coward!

retreat?....maybe if you become more sensible i'll return.

touch4mony: yes i am and what has this hopeless Amaechi don,apart from the skuls name other things or is it only skulz he built in 6yrs

you are either a liar, non rivers resident or just blind.

Billyonaire: Shut up!!! How long will you live in denial. We have seen pictures and you are trying to lie again. Shut up again. Amaechi is a criminal.

and you are a cow! I dare you to show me any nigerian city that does'nt have spots like this. 8 years of neglect cannot be washed away in 6. You and you fellow goats should tell me why with a 300 billion naira budget, the bayelsa state capital has no single fly over, you and your fellow pigs should outline how much debt akpabio has gathered for akwa ibom plus the more debt he is acquring to service already existing debt, square it with what he has done in his state. Show me significant things emmanuel uduagan has done with the billions for oil rich delta. You're just a bunch of animalistic hypocites. Epic fool!

Mr president, What if one of the outcomes is a request for you not to contest the 2015 general election?

In 2005,first daughters janet and laura bush were arrested for attempting to buy alcohol at a bar in texas with fake ID's.

What a beautifull picture of solidary and unity in diversity in nigeria, wish it where so in reality.

ijaw citizen: Who does not know that the RSHA leadership have been bought over by Amaechi. After the fracas in the house it became clear for everyone to see that they are Amaechi's loyalists. Are assembly members supposed to be Governors' loyalists, NO! Why is RSHA different? Because they are all Amaechi loyalist except the resistant few whose only saving grace is their ties with Rivers PDP backbone-Nyesom Wike.

Even Amaechi had to come into the house (uninvited) as soon as he heard the news to fight along with his thugs!

So yes, I stand by my initial statement, AMAECHI SACKED THOSE LG CHAIRMEN NOT LOYAL TO HIM, and I'm not mincing words, every Rivers indigenes can attest to this fact, not some riffrats APC clowns from SW. Even Okrika chairman was sacked because PEJ opening criticized Amaechi in Okrika; A clear case of transfered agression befitting of a clown that he (Amaechi) truely is.

Keep being foolish, your foolishness shows.

it will be a shame if continue exchanging words with someone who whole premise is based of assumsion and popular belife. When you recognise, work and talk with facts, come back for a better discussion.

It is funny how every simpleton now see it as a their duty to berate rivers state and governor ameachi, a man who is trying to undo the neglect matted out on the state by peter odili. They never mention bayelsa with a similar budget to rivers, a major oil producing state but they don't have a single flyover, they never measure the amount of debt godswill akpabio has pilled for akwa ibom to what he actually has put on ground. Poster, should i show you similar pics like this of lagos, the state with nigeria's largest budget?

This post is idiotic and condesending.

Appiont the right hand man of the greatest looter in nigerian histroy to fight corruption. This is beyond idiotic..but if it will get him more support in the north for 2015, mr president will surely do it. A desperate man can do anything to achieve his aim.

I think it is very stupid for the nigerian constitution to say the national assembly must not make any law that contradicts or undermine sharia law. Look at how this people are using their religion to destroy people's right of expression i wonder what will happen if the port harcourt city council bans everybody from wearing hijab in the city.

ijaw citizen: Don't be a fool by trying to fool us with your foolishness.

Every Rivers indigene knows that Amaechi has sacked all LG chairmen who are not loyal to him, the current sets of Chairmen all qualify as Amaechis thugs or else they'd have been booted out by Dicktator Amaechi the Tyrant.

Kalabari people werw the ones who reported the incident where a peaceful law abiding gathering of the GDI was attacked violently by Amaechi thugs led by the LG chairman Ojukaye without any provocation.

I'll be back with the link.

you're crazy. You are ignorant to the constitution. A governor does not sack LGA chairmen, the state assembly does. And currently there is no rivers assembly so you can't say he is using sack as a leverage for their support.

Kalabari people mentioned reported what? Dumo lulu briggs and a few fools filled an op ed and you call that kalabari people? Ghastly.

eastermaris: I can bet,even with the rotten teeth okupe wld still conveniently take ur wife under ur very eyes! A twisted life lol

sorry ma'am, i'm not married. And by the way, your comment was most shambolic and lofty.

ijaw citizen: When has Amaechi thugs (Okocha, Ojukaye and Pepple) become Rivers people. Rivers people didn't attack Wike's group, Amaechi thugs did.

Now bury that head in shame.

so they are noe thugs? That means every LGA chairman in rivers state is a thug cause i'be not heard of any of them supporting wike, magnus abe, dakuku peterside,etc...are all thugs? You folks should keep deluding yourself and ask wike if he is truly running a GRASSROOT initiative, why is it limited to port harcourt? I taught the grassroots were the communities.

chukwudi44: Yesooo may he live long.When he was playing by the rules you call him 'clueless' ,'retardeen' now let the games begin

playin what rules? He has been a crook from the beginning. A crook with a harmless persona. Even before his boss died he was already plotting to overtake the presidency. As acting president(not president) he has already started sacking ministers who opposed him as vice president. His wife had started draging land with first lady turia. Played by what rules? The ameachi he is fighting today, did'nt he give him all the support and resources to destroy austin okpara's PDP faction that was supporting atiku in 2010? He will get what's coming to him.

1MCN: Amaechi's intransigiency is costing Rivers people too much in delivery of good governance--and this is just where my concern resides

spare me the rubbish..so who will give you the good governance, wike or abiye sekibo?ameachi has done in 6 yrs tripple of what odili did in 8 yrs and people still have mouth to talk.

Anybody who wants to join wike can do as they wish. Afterall wike and jonathan has declared open season in rivers state. All the criminals like abiye sekibo who on a normal day won't rear his ubly face is now fore front. The only problem is nobody in rivers state like wike. They know he is a thug that's why his GDI initiative does'nt step beyond liberation stadium. When he went to his home town to do GDI, david dike and tony okocha disgraced him. When he took his GDI to buguma, youths led by their chairman, ojukaye flag amachree stonned him and his aides. Edward pepple has already told him not to near port harcourt. So he can keep fooling himself. The end will tell.

And we are suppose to be living in a democracy? Long live generalissimo goodluck ebele jonathan.