Ikechukwu09:
I think this is the right move. BUA has been funding a militia in Okpella community and has refused to sign a community development agreement with the community. What it does is just to pay the royal father some money and that is it.

The people of Okpella do not occupy any management position in the company because BUA say they are not qualified. Will you tell us there is no one with at most an MBA in that community.

After muzzling the community, they are now hellbent on disregarding the federal and state government. This is not how a responsible businessman should behave, if you ask me.

We were around two days ago when the state governor came around and the people were insulting him when he was leaving the King's palace. If you go to that community, you'll see the kind of animosity the company has sown in the minds of the people. Families are divided because of the activities of this company and the coming of Dangote. At most, can't this two companies coexist in the community without rancour?

The boys, who are militias many rumour are funded by BUA, even set a blockade by burning two tyres along the road when the governor was leaving the King's palace.

I think it is better to sue for peace and this man should go and answer his father's name with the Police.

The is the fact of the matter. You are very much on point. BUA is a disgrace to the business world with his antics of grooming cultists for economics gains.

Are they referring to the lime stone deposits which allegedly belongs to the people of Ukhomunyio Community in Okpella, Edo State?

bisiki2:


I have nothing but maximum respect for this comment. Sir, have you considered a career in investigative journalism

He just stated the obvious truth.

SweetJoystick:
Bastard, na God go punish you. How does oil in the Niger Delta concern Sokoto? How do you want equal share of resources? Do you also share equal environmental degradation?

Good talk

Failures of this scope and magnitude will continue to prevail in our society until we embrace the actual face value of individuals as it is done in other climes. until will refuse to place our bearing on mere certificates and face the real face value of individuals we cannot but continue to fail.

People should be tested vide thorough examinations with or without formal certificates in respective capacities to be able to ascertain their fitness for engagements. Though, the place of certificates is still very vital but immerse screening ought to be done. It is better to employ a man who can do the job better without a certificate than to employ those with certificates, who cannot get the job done.

AGITATION & UPRISING; AFTERMATH OF A NATION THAT HAS FAILED HER CITIZENS.

"It is often said that when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable".

The purpose for which the nations of the world exist, is to impact thier citizens positively. Agitations either for succession or otherwise starts when the citizens have lost confidence in the state.

Nigeria is a country that creates deficiency around her citizens and this devalues them. When people are devalued, they become frustrated, and when they are frustrated, they react. It is the people's reaction we are seeing today in the form of different agitations in Nigeria that the government of the day is not able to manage.

The Nigeria government thinks that they can use coercion to surpresses insuration/agitation. They fail to realise that coercion is not a form of managing crises. Coercion surpresses crises which often than not, rears-up in other forms.

It will be more rewarding to reposition our society by committing ourselves to changing the quality of reasoning of individuals instead of using coercion. You cannot find the type of reasoning in Nigeria today in any other part of the world. You can only find our type of reasoning in less than 0.5% of drug addicts of the world's population. There is massive illiterate thinking you find in our society which weigh down a lot on our people doing things that the world no longer recognises outside Nigeria.

The way to go is collective brainstorming by engaging our minds through improved analytical, scientific, and public reasoning so that we can engage issues of constitutional reforms, deepening democracy, and the repositioning of an economy that works.

For instance, look at the debt crises ravaging our economy today; trillions of naira being owed by a society that is not productive and under-paying workers because we have not used public reasoning properly. Reports emanating from the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) today, reveals that 23 States of the Federation have exceeded their borrowing limits. We cannot get out of this debt- trap until we engage the use of proper public reasoning.

The Most demeaning things you see in Nigeria today are linked to poor public reasoning; lack of productivity, religion conflicts and all sorts of social, indeginous, and ethnic conflicts. Basic things are not being put right starting from leadership. If the government don't appreciate the foregoing and make amends, the society can never stand, let alone standing strong.

Until we become highly rational and analytical, have a probing mind, avoid dogmatism, and become persons who open our minds to other people's views and reason together and be able to conceptualise what is good for everybody, we cannot live in the kind of enviable society of our dream.

Leadership or government at all levels is not usually about what you think. It is about what you think about what the people think. It is about reconciling your views with the people's views and ensuring that at every time, the best of your interaction with the people becomes the basis of leadership or governance. This is what is missing in Nigeria today and by admission, my Ukhomunyio Community.

We fail to realise that it is the society that generates obligations from the citizens. The instincts that drives man is not the instinct of obligation but the instinct of self preservation and selflessness.

In the present day Nigeria, it is the society that throws-up it's own kind of leaders; public reasoning generates a particular kind of politics, a particular kind of political parties, a particular kind of leadership of political parties, the kind of response by the citizens, capacity of citizens to obey or disobey, cause civil disobedience, and generates the necessary crises that will lead to the resolution of issues in the country and in our various communities whether they are Sate governments, LGAs, Clans, Sub-clans, villages, and Hamlets.

If we can dedicate our intuitions to reposition Nigeria today, 75% of the people who have govern us will not near the corridor of power. Let us not waste time in analysing personalities. Let's concentrate our efforts on analysing the system that will throw-up people into the realm of leadership.

In conclusion and as a 'Management Professional', I wish to state that conflicts helps to create better societies. We must make a distinction between conflict and war. The former does not necessarily mean the later. Conflicts, agitations, civil disobedience helps to throw-up things that needs to be resolved so that when they are resolved, we have a higher form of society.

Mr. Kelobo U. Anthony

The speech was ineffective as per the prevailing tensed situation in the country. It was just a mere speech with little or no effect.

tochivitus:
so I saw Nigeria flag and one other flag, beside the president, abeg what flag is that one am not under understanding

The other flag is the flag of the Nigeria Armed Forces. Take note that the President is the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces.

If the reincarnation myth is to be true, how come our population is increasing? Where are the additional souls coming from? A village of a hundred people for instance, ought not to increase with time since it would have been a soul from past life coming back again.

Nigeria's population would have remained static.

You should be concern about how people will survive the next 3 months under Buahari. Instead, he is talking about 2019.

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It doesn't matter in as much as it is their private investment which in turns adds to our economy and alleviate the sufferings of the employees by getting them engaged.

By Hussaini Ibrahim –

Next year, Nigeria will become self-sufficient in cement production and a net exporter of the product. This entails that the country’s cement industry will save the nation’s economy about $2 billion in foreign exchange, with an output capacity of 45 million tonnes per annum, 1400 per cent up from about 3.0 million a decade ago.

This is the outcome of the industrial evolution BUA Group is undertaking in the industry. Last Tuesday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo commissioned the 3.0 million tonnes Okpella plant line-1. He also performed the ground breaking ceremony of the second line (Line-2) of BUA Group’s Okpella plant which has a target completion date in the first quarter of next year.

It is not rocket science that a project whose groundbreaking was performed barely one week will be completed in Q1 of next year. The actual construction works had started earlier this year, reaching about 70 per cent completion level as at last week. A similar project in Sokoto will also bring a total 12 million tonnes capacity into the nation’s cement industry by BUA Group.

Speaking at the event last Wednesday, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu, said the commissioning of the over $1billion complex comprising of the 3 million tonnes BUA Cement, Obu Plant line 1 and the ground-breaking of the second line of the same capacity was a significant milestone for BUA Group, the cement industry and the country’s economy as they will not only make the country self-sufficient in cement production but also a net exporter of the commodity. He noted that the construction of a second cement plant line of 3 million tonnes was essential as the success and impressive efficiency of the Obu cement plant in its first year of operation was over 90 per cent of capacity utilisation.

Rabiu said, “This marks an important milestone, not only for the BUA Group but also for the Nigerian cement industry and the Nigerian economy in general as we witness the official commissioning of the 3 million tonnes Obu cement plant, as well as the ground-breaking of the second line of 3 million tonnes plant.

“Today’s event has witnessed the commissioning of one of the best cement plants anywhere in the world. It is engineered to be the most environmentally friendly cement plant in Africa with the most advanced duct emission systems. We also use natural gas, which is a very clean energy for both our kiln as well as the power plant in addition to having a very green environment.

“Similarly, BUA has started the construction of another greenfield cement plant in Sokoto State with an annual capacity of 1.5 million tons at a cost of over $300 million which will be commissioned in 2018.

“Additionally, our investments in the 2 cement lines in Edo State represent the largest non-oil and gas related investment in the whole of the South-Southern region of Nigeria. With these, BUA will have invested over $2 billion dollars in the Nigerian cement industry with capacities in excess of over 10 million tons per annum within the course of a decade”.

The foremost industrialist observed that the over 10 years Nigerian integrated cement manufacturing policy which has transformed the country’s cement industry is a signal that Nigeria is closely attaining self-sufficiency in cement production and net exportation. According to him, the company built a 31 Kilometer gas pipeline to supply power to the

plant, in addition to BUA’s investment in purchasing an over 50-megawatts power plant supplied by Siemens for the complex.

“The cement sub-sector today represents over 90 per cent of the Nigerian mining sector and employs some 30,000 people directly and over two millionpeople indirectly”, Rabiu added.

He further stated that the event marked the commissioning of one of the best cement plants anywhere in the world. “It is engineered to be the most environmentally friendly cement plant in Africa with the most advanced duct emission systems. Our technology has the latest filtration with capacity of less than 10 milligram per normal meter use. We use natural gas, which is a very clean energy for both our kiln as well as the power plant in addition to having a very green environment”.

When it was time for him to speak, Vice President Osinbajo did not conceal his admiration for BUA Group. While congratulating the Chairman and the staff of the company for the remarkable achievement, Osinbajo described the commissioning of the multi-million dollar BUA Cement Factory in Okpella as a consolidation of Nigeria’s self-sufficiency in cement and a big boost to the nation’s export capacity. He said Rabiu is “numbered among individuals in Nigeria who are properly described as entrepreneurs, men and women running true, value added, job creating enterprises, using local resources and talents to create values and wealth”.

He added: “I am extremely proud to be a Nigerian and I’m sure that several of us here are. This is a wholly Nigerian enterprise and we know that the planning, the execution and successful establishment of this industrial complex was done by a Nigerian and by a Nigerian team. It is really good to know. The construction of this plant is of course, a big boost to the Nigerian economy, it will provide thousands of direct jobs and indirect jobs, both for skilled and unskilled workers from the commencement of the construction of the plant to the smooth-running of the operation processes.

“At the level of production obtain it also means the consolidation of the Nigeria’s self-sufficiency in cement and a big boost to our export capacity.

“I am happy to note that for the construction of power production facility for this plant, the BUA Group has used the most modern and efficient gas turbine which combines low and economically value-cost with a very high degree of reliability”.

Osinbajo noted that the enterprise represents the expectations of the present government in the economic and growth recovery plans which was launched by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 05, 2017, where the President made it clear that Nigeria’s economic emancipation and growth must be private sector-led and driven.

The vice president described the plant as a consolidation of Nigeria’s self-sufficiency in cement and a big boost to the nation’s export capacity.

He reaffirmed the Buhari-led administration determination to continue with providing the enabling business environment, while going the extra mile to directly assist private sector in steadily growing our economy.

He added that the present administration is working very hard with the Industrial Policy Council to evolve and implement well-considered solutions to business impediments and economy stagnation in Nigeria.

In his remark, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State who extolled the entrepreneurial spirit of BUA Group for reinvesting in the plant added that by the time the second line ia completed, they would have invested in excess of a billion dollar to produce cement. He lauded the President Buhari-led administration for creating an enabling and economic driven environment for investors to thrive. The governor said his government will continue to encourage investors for more mind blowing investments such as witnessed in BUA Group’s cement.

BUA entered into the Nigerian Cement industry in 2008 with the acquisition of BUA Cement-1, a two-million tonner floating cement terminal that was able to process bulk cement into bags on a vessel. The trajectory of the Group’s cement operation saw it acquire a controlling stake in the publicly listed Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Plc (CCNN), as well as in Edo Cement Company Limited in the same year.

The company went on to invest in the construction of a greenfield 3.0 million tonnes plant in Okpella (Obu), Edo State, which was also commissioned by the vice president last Wednesday.



Ibrahim wrote from Kaduna.


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Bastard Doyin Okupe congratulations

easyfem:
I'm from Edo state but I don't want bendel, I wish Edo could be marge wit Yoruba's , its only Yoruba I see future

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This thread is open to all well meaning Nairalanders in the House. Please, suggest the best practical ways to restructure Nigeria.

My hereby submit mine as thus:

Let envisage a one Nigeria where equity, fairness and justice will be the order of the day. A structured Nigeria where the federating units will contribute 5% of their respective resources to the center. A Nigeria where there are no second class citizens.

A Nigeria where the best will be selected to take the lead irrespective of the region of origin. A Nigeria that will be the envy of the world due to the judicious management of her capital and human resources.

A Nigeria devoid of indigenisation policy....where residency will be preferred to indigenous sentiments. A Nigeria where all ethnic nationalities will not see each other differently. A Nigeria where all religions will embrace peace and seek divinity without infringement on the rights of worship of others.

A Nigeria will we all be proud to call our own and a legacy left for our unborn generation.

Let envisage a one Nigeria where equity, fairness and justice will be the order of the day. A structured Nigeria where the federating units will contribute 5% of their respective resources to the center. A Nigeria where there are no second class citizens.

A Nigeria where the best will be selected to take the lead irrespective of the region of origin. A Nigeria that will be the envy of the world due to the judicious management of her capital and human resources.

A Nigeria devoid of indigenisation policy....where residency will be preferred to indigenous sentiments. A Nigeria where all ethnic nationalities will not see each other differently. A Nigeria where all religions will embrace peace and seek divinity without infringement on the rights of worship of others.

A Nigeria will we all be proud to call our own and a legacy left for our unborn generation.

Let envisage a one Nigeria where equity, fairness and justice will be the order of the day. A structured Nigeria where the federating units will contribute 5% of their respective resources to the center. A Nigeria where there are no second class citizens.

A Nigeria where the best will be selected to take the lead irrespective of the region of origin. A Nigeria that will be the envy of the world due to the judicious management of her capital and human resources.

A Nigeria devoid of indigenisation policy....where residency will be preferred to indigenous sentiments. A Nigeria where all ethnic nationalities will not see each other differently. A Nigeria where all religions will embrace peace and seek divinity without infringement on the rights of worship of others.

A Nigeria will we all be proud to call our own and a legacy left for our unborn generation.

Let envisage a one Nigeria where equity, fairness and justice will be the order of the day. A structured Nigeria where the federating units will contribute 5% of their respective resources to the center. A Nigeria where there are no second class citizens.

A Nigeria where the best will be selected to take the lead irrespective of the region of origin. A Nigeria that will be the envy of the world due to the judicious management of her capital and human resources.

A Nigeria devoid of indigenisation policy....where residency will be proffered to indigenous sentiments. A Nigeria where all ethnic nationalities will not see each other differently. A Nigeria where all religions will embrace peace and seek divinity without infringement on the rights of worship of others.

A Nigeria will we all be proud to call our own and a legacy left for our unborn generation.

Let envisage a one Nigeria where equity, fairness and justice will be the order of the day. A structured Nigeria where the federating units will contribute 5% of their respective resources to the center. A Nigeria where there are no second class citizens.

A Nigeria where the best will be selected to take the lead irrespective of the region of origin. A Nigeria that will be the envy of the world due to the judicious management of her capital and human resources.

A Nigeria devoid of indigenisation policy....where residency will be proffered to indigenous sentiments. A Nigeria where all ethnic nationalities will not see each other differently. A Nigeria where all religions will embrace peace and seek divinity without infringement on the rights of worship of others.

A Nigeria will we all be proud to call our own and a legacy left for our unborn generation.

Let envisage a one Nigeria where equity, fairness and justice will be the order of the day. A structured Nigeria where the federating units will contribute 5% to respective resources to the center. A Nigeria where there are no second class citizens.

A Nigeria where the best will be selected to take the lead irrespective of the region of origin. A Nigeria that will be the envy of the world due to the judicious management of her capital and human resources.

A Nigeria devoid of indigenisation policy....where residency will be proffered to indigenous sentiments. A Nigeria where all ethnic nationalities will not see each other differently. A Nigeria where all religions will embrace peace and seek divinity without infringement on the rights of worship of others.

A Nigeria will we all be proud to call our own and a legacy left for our unborn generation.

They buzz in our ears because of the oily moist inside the ears of human attracts them. By buzzing, they are trying to gain entrance into the ear to have access to the oily substance/moist.

How on Earth will anyone ascribe the killing of harmless/helpless Children and women in a Church to drug war. The story doesn't add-up at all. They should look for a way of telling us a more convincing lie. This killing seem to be like that of an external invasion on a helpless and harmless citizens.

May God help us to help ourselves in this Country.

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