₦airaland Forum

3lovesu: Wike for education... I say R.I.P to Education

Gbawe: Bruv you predicted as expected. What can one expect from those whose modus operandi is limited to attacking the messenger but what is written below? Sad. Very sad.

take dat: 'Real Progress' as defined by me and many other Nigerians who are yet to be satisfied with the level of transformational achievements hashed out and praise sung by professional griots and bootlickers, those with culture of concordance and the 'its our own on the saddle, so let's support him, good or bad' crew.

This is not to say that GEJ isn't doing his bit in certain areas, but don't you think there would be no need for glossy pictorial evidence and self advertisement if the people meant to read the book see and feel those achievements in their physical forms? Those who are lacking in band, praise sing themselves. To me, this is another drain-pipe on tax payers' fund.

PAPA AFRICA: it would have been nice if the british took pictures of the kings palace before they stripped the art.

naptu2: I think it's possible to figure out what happened if you look at the diagram that I posted. I suspect that the authors mistook the narrow gauge Eastern Line for the standard gauge Eastern Line.

cachal: Only a fool will vote for this government in the coming election, A government who sees importation of Generator as a means to make some cool cash.. the simple message NERC is passing, is electricity will never be steady till 2020..

take dat: A book that the majority of rural dwellers can neither have access to nor read. Who needs a compiled compendium of unverifiable data and half truths? All we demand is 'Real Progress and not Paper Progress'.

Knowledge9000: Common man don suffer for this country....another avenue to suck blood out of us gratuitously. Still waiting to know what has been done so far with the so-called subsidy funds? Common sense that if you give us steady electricity, generators will go extinct.

manny4life: Bros... abegi no kill me me laughter, u don crase finish..

Shey it's only you that will fly in that airplane abi...

Mr. Yoshi, welcome on board Manny's special airline jet... made for you. Per your schedule, final destination is Atlantic Ocean. Sir, to your left is a jacked up window and to your right, well the doors ain't working. If you look outside both windows, one side of the wings is longer than the other which means, we may not be able to generate lift just in time. When you feel a bounce prior to take off, it just means the tires aren't that pressurized enough. SIR, worry not... we GOT YOU COVERED. We shall be in the air in to no time, I'd like for you to relax, and enjoy you last maiden flight... Thank you for choosing to fly Manny's Air, call sign final destination... Fly again with us.

Symphony007: How does the so called perishables get to the airport without spoiling when investments have'nt been made in modern storage facilities in farms and cooling vans, where are you exporting them to? Because no country will buy perishables which are very sensitive from a country like nigeria where there is no organisation.

How many farms have the facilities to pack the perishables in cartons, crates, etc and brand it as an internationally recognised farm. Last i checked, nigeria does'nt have such commercial farms.

And finally i do hope the minister realise that december is just about three months away.

software man: You are getting it twisted. His point is this thing has nothing to do with the Jonathan's government. They were simply implementations of business expansion plans made several years ago. Is'NT it funny? if you want to ascribe every good event during Jonathan 's tenure to him why do you want to excuse every bad thing from him?

To me it is pathetic and ridiculous that you want to give him credit for things he did not contribute directly to while you will excuse him from the several disasters he was responsible for!

ballabriggs: Was his sugar refinery also under Abacha also as a result of Abacha's favourable policy?

The purchase of Obajana, Bacita and the port concession under OBJ's favourable policy?

Of course, favourable policy to him. However, that is not how we assess a macro-economy.

We look at a macro-economy in terms of wealth distribution among the component units and not one man Dangote.

software man: It is reality on ground except of course, you jonathanians live in a diffrent country from the rest of us!

ballabriggs: What is the big deal about Nigeria's FDI inflows?

Firstly, Nigeria in the last year on a per capita basis got less FDI inflows than Ghana.

Secondly, Africa as a whole has an agonisingly low percentage of global FDI inflows. To make noise about biggest in Africa is to say you are the king of mediocrity.

Thirdly, these inflows in most of the economic literature on FDI and growth in Nigeria have a very insignificant impact on growth.

So please shut it.

software man: Obj too assembled a so called first eleven team including the same ngozi nweala and many, many more. They said after payingo off the country's debt we should expect a great sustained economic growth of low inflation and interest rates andd high employment.
Now we have the foreign reserve squandered, higher inflation, higher interest rate, higher unemployment, worse state of infrastructure. On top they have piled up the debts again Even worse.!

It is really testimony galore. Testimony of lies and propaganda galore!!

awodman: I can see some people trying to say that it was IMPORT WAIVERS granted Dangote that made him so...sorry dangote is an industrialist...Let me help out with some of the verifiable GEJ's govt has introduced and pursued that has helped Dangote and other industrialists

1) Dangote cement and other cement manufacturing firms benefited massively from the BACKWARD INTEGRATION POLICY on cement which was pursued aggresively by the current minister of Investment Aganga
And we know cement is the major drive of Dangote companies
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/fg-explains-high-price-of-cement/

2) Because of a CBN INTERVENTION POLICY and the current drive in agriculture led by ADESINA,Dangote is setting a tomato paste processing industry in kano
mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-30/africa-s-richest-man-vies-with-china-in-nigeria-tomatoes.html

3) Dangote because of the current NATIONAL SUGAR MASTERPLAN and the BACKWARD INTEGRATION POLICY which was initiated by AGANGA and is been pursued aggresively is setting a sugar plantation and sugar processing plants in Adamawa and kwara

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/imported-sugar-deploying-backward-integration-against-nigeria-s-addiction/156592/

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/dangote-plans-n200bn-sugar-factories-in-sokoto-kebbi-states-2/

ilebaami: Goodluck Jonathan assembled a Nigerian 1st eleven squad that includes Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Shamsudeen Usman, Dr. Akinwunmi Ayo Adesina, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafa, Mrs. Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi ,Olusegun Aganga, Amb. Olugbenga Ashiru, Prof. Chinedu Osita Nebo, Mrs. Deizani Alison-Madueke a a host of smart brains to complement his intellectual insight. Not to forget two quiet wiz-kids at the power privatisation revolution called Atedo Peterside and Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack. You ain't seen nothing yet! Testimony galore!

rusher14: Please can you prove your assertion that Nigeria has enjoyed the greatest FDi in Africa in the past 2 years?
Though i'm quite busy, a quick check of this fact appears rather contrary with Angola appearing to benefit the greatest within the African continent from FDI as reported by KPMG.

Source: http://www.blog.kpmgafrica.com/overview-of-foreign-direct-investment-in-africa/

chucky234: Exporting our perishables to the international market will result in scarcity of such produce in the domestic market.

The 13 proposed perishable cargo terminals will be ready by December this year, Minister of Aviation Princess Stella Oduah has said.
The terminals will be sited in Abuja, Akure, Calabar, Ilorin, Jalingo, Jos, Kano, Lagos, Makurdi, Minna, Owerri, Port Harcourt and Uyo.
When completed, the terminals will enable Nigeria key into the over N250 billion annual air freight export market out of Africa. Countries like Kenya, South Africa, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt are participating in the trading in commodities such as fruits, fresh fish, vegetables and flowers while Nigeria, which produces these items in abundance, records zero participation.
A statement from Joe Obi, SA (Media) to the Minister of Aviation said she gave the assurance when Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Alex Sabundu Badeh, paid a courtesy call on her at the ministry.
“We are hoping to have all the 13 perishable terminals ready by December, that’s our mandate and we must accomplish it,” the minister said
She also thanked the Air Force authorities for granting the request to use part of the Makurdi Air Base as one of the 13 approved perishable cargo terminals in the country, stressing that perishables have the potential of transforming the nation’s economy from bottom up.
Currently, “we are doing the fabrications in China; we expect that before the end of October they would have arrived for installation.
“We want to be able to have all our perishable produce from all our rural communities, whether it is pepper, tomatoes or okra, and be able to export them to international markets. It is a very exciting proposition and we are working round the clock to accomplish it,” she concluded

desgiezd: All na politics. He has to align for business reasons.