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damade16:
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Where are dis IPOB Zombies? As far as it is PDP, It's a welcome development

Ogun since 2015

symbianDON:
innoson ISN'T and HASN'T ever been a car manufacturer! All innoson does is too reassemble already made Chinese car models in their assembly plant. Innoson doesn't HAVE ONE original design to her credit! Look at this so-called SUV for example. It's just a rebadge. Innoson is a rebadging company and not a manufacturer. This is not bad-mouthing. It's telling the truth as it is. BAIC BJ80 is the vehicle Innoson rebadged. Search BAIC BJ80 on Google and see for yourself.

Innoson bus is also Japan buses since Toyota were the first company to manufacture the type of bus


Below is pictures of BBC visit to Innoson plant in Nnewi

You bitter minds should stop hating, more you are hating more God is blessing him, mind you Innoson owns the biggest plastic company in Nigeria, he manufacture vehicle tyres, well covers, vehicle plastics, storage tanks, PVC and many others

symbianDON:
innoson ISN'T and HASN'T ever been a car manufacturer! All innoson does is too reassemble already made Chinese car models in their assembly plant. Innoson doesn't HAVE ONE original design to her credit! Look at this so-called SUV for example. It's just a rebadge. Innoson is a rebadging company and not a manufacturer. This is not bad-mouthing. It's telling the truth as it is. BAIC BJ80 is the vehicle Innoson rebadged. Search BAIC BJ80 on Google and see for yourself.

Federal government has sent delicates severely to IVM plant

symbianDON:
innoson ISN'T and HASN'T ever been a car manufacturer! All innoson does is too reassemble already made Chinese car models in their assembly plant. Innoson doesn't HAVE ONE original design to her credit! Look at this so-called SUV for example. It's just a rebadge. Innoson is a rebadging company and not a manufacturer. This is not bad-mouthing. It's telling the truth as it is. BAIC BJ80 is the vehicle Innoson rebadged. Search BAIC BJ80 on Google and see for yourself.

This is manufactured in Nigeria by Innoson, I can still show Chinese and Japanese version of the bus Otondo

symbianDON:
innoson ISN'T and HASN'T ever been a car manufacturer! All innoson does is too reassemble already made Chinese car models in their assembly plant. Innoson doesn't HAVE ONE original design to her credit! Look at this so-called SUV for example. It's just a rebadge. Innoson is a rebadging company and not a manufacturer. This is not bad-mouthing. It's telling the truth as it is. BAIC BJ80 is the vehicle Innoson rebadged. Search BAIC BJ80 on Google and see for yourself.

People better than you, organisations visited, such as Nigeria society of engineers, foreign and local media organizations such as CNN, BBC, French TV and so many others visited Innoson plant and confirmed he's throughly manufacturing, Ignorant like you that doesn't know road to Asaba will ranting online
What do you call these stages in vehicle making

Okoroawusa:
The Anambra Association in Malaysia r not talking about human trafficking statistics. They r just worried about the high level of Anambra girls in Malaysia lured under the pretence of a better life by human traffickers. Am Igbo,n have lived in Awka for 6years.

Otondo below are general statistics across all the countries, not just Malaysia I graduated from UNIZIK, live and doing my business in Awka, These are states with high prevalence in Human trafficking in Nigeria: Edo, Delta, Kano, Cross River, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Ogun, Bayelsa.
https://punchng.com/edo-kano-delta-lead-in-human-trafficking/amp/

sylve11:
how many times you dey hear of human trafficking from delta state?

How many times you dey hear of human trafficking in Anambra, open the link and read
https://punchng.com/edo-kano-delta-lead-in-human-trafficking/amp/

CodeTemplar:
But Anambra has lionshare.

Edo, Kano, Delta lead in human trafficking
Published

August 1, 2019
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja

Edo, Kano and Delta states are leading in human trafficking, according to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.

Meanwhile, NAPTIP says it rescued 11,819 Nigerians from human traffickers up till December 2018.

Edo State has one-fifth or 21 per cent of the rescued victims, Kano has 10 while Delta has 7.2 per cent.

The statistics are from the Nigeria Country Report of Human Trafficking 2019 by NAPTIP obtained exclusively by our correspondent on Wednesday.


The document showed a breakdown of the rescued victims by their states of origin, making the South-South comprising Edo, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River and Rivers states the most prevalent for human trafficking with 40.7 per cent of the total number of victims.

The North-West followed with 19.8 per cent, with Kano leads in the zone with 1,114 victims.

The report said, “From inception to December 2018, NAPTIP has received 11,819 Nigerian victims of trafficking. One-fifth of the Nigerian victims are indigenes of Edo State and about one-tenth of the victims are from Kano State. Other states with significant percentages include Akwa Ibom, 8.1; Delta, 7.2; Benue, 4.3; Imo, 4.2; and Cross River, 4.2.


“In numbers, Cross River has 486 victims, Delta, 855, Imo, 509, Ogun 286, and Sokoto, 347 victims. The South-East has 16.7 per cent of all the victims. Other zones – North-Central, South-West and North-East recorded 10.1, 8.9 and 3.8 per cents respectively.

“Women and children are the most vulnerable in the victims of human trafficking. This is evident following the distribution where 71.2 per cent of rescued victims are females and 50.3 per cent are children.”The 2019 report also highlighted 39 countries from where some of the victims were rescued, with Libya, Mali, the United Arab Emirates, Niger Republic and Burkina Faso topping the list.

The document showed that 2,389 victims were rescued by the agency from the five countries.

Libya had 568, Mali 258, UAE 184, Niger 278 and Burkina Faso 196 victims.

Copyright PUNCH.

BafanaBafana:
lol. thats not even punch website

Use your Google, Anambra is one of the least states in human trafficking in Nigeria

By Col. Hassan Stan-Labo (Rtd)

First; I must say that on both Boko Haram and Banditry, the North slept for too long hence, the North must wake up now to stop murdering sleep to eternity.

The north saw nothing coming. Population was deemed strength. But it should have watched when others slowed down in breeding. It bred too many children and didn’t do much to care for them. They roamed the streets. Yet, it bred more. They forsook schools. And took to begging. Yet, it bred more. Those children, many of them, have gone feral. Now, the north cannot sleep. The north slept for too long.

Northern politicians lived in bubbles, in distant cities. Some governors literally ruled by ‘Wifi’. When they bothered to return to their state capitals, unemployed youths lined the streets to cheer them. In their narcissism, they said it was popularity. The naive jobless youths in their ignorance, considered them their own share of national big men.

So the northern politicians were safe and happy. They lived like lords, harvesting political rents. Their political estate was the large benighted population of the north whose votes made them national heroes. All they bothered about was winning elections and cornering privileges for their family and their friends.

The north is waking up. But it’s waking in fits and starts.

While it was asleep, corrupt politicians treated education as western adulteration of cherished conservative culture. The north lacked schools and teachers, and lacked hospitals and doctors and nurses. But their leaders couldn’t be bothered. The welfare of the poor was an abstract concept mouthed in campaign speeches.

Young doctors went for national youth service in the north and came back with tales of horror. Children and women died needlessly. Labour got obstructed and prolonged and the nearest hospital with a doctor was hundreds of kilometers away. Youth corps doctors were forced to do caesarean sections. We screamed when we shared the stories amongst ourselves those days.

The governors preferred playing emotional religious politics to building productive human capacity. So while some other parts of the country focused on education, some governors made sharia a project and built a large population of illiterate Almajiris.

And I think the north was pushed into deeper somnolence by tranquilizers like quota system and federal character. You can disagree with me. But I know competition would have awakened the north much earlier.

The north is rising. But it is still groggy.

The traditional institutions and the politicians underestimated the long term consequences of their fixation on electoral contests. Political power brought roads and more local government areas. The Federal Government built a refinery and sited federal institutions in some northern cities. But there was almost no attempt to educate the poor. Children roamed. Schools weren’t properly staffed. The three tiers of government left the smaller towns and rural areas in abject poverty and utter hopelessness. The private sector was absent. There was literally no man power for anything meaningful.

The politicians and retired soldiers cornered positions and oil wells. They rode in their big cars and flew in jets. They built big houses and sent their children to foreign lands for education. They let the ignorant poor to worship them and let them flourish in their ignorance. It all seemed peaceful at least. The rich in Kaduna, Kano and Abuja, played their polo. The poor children in Gamboru couldn’t get vaccines. They had to rely on Bill Gates and foreign charity to get, when they got. Poverty and disease and desertification battered and bruised them. The poor , illiterate and hopeless, in the slums of the big towns, in small towns and in the bushes in the hamlets found solace in religion. Radical preachers sneaked in and taught them comforting extremism.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Banditry has taken over the parts of the north not ravaged by Boko Haram. Zamfara had once toyed with religious extremism. That former center of religious activism is now the devil’s workshop. Evil became so rife the former governor was ready to negotiate with demons who massacred and burnt whole villages. Children who didn’t go to school, who spent their entire lives in the wild, dragging cattle from Timbuktu to Calabar, had become possessed. They have forsaken religion and embraced the devil. And Zamfara is now thinking a mass literacy programme.

Kaduna, the center of the north has not been spared. Ethnic fault lines have been sharpened by frustration and hopelessness. Politicians had driven wedges between the poor to feather their political nests. Millions of unemployed youths are now finding guns and finding devilish impatience. Violence has mushroomed. And Kaduna is fast acquiring the character of Lebanon.

Our law enforcement agents are working hard. But they are overwhelmed. Law enforcement was designed to check and correct an exceptional few. And not to contain an epidemic of madness. From Benue to Taraba, from Katsina to Zamfara, it’s been violence after violence.

The north is waking up. I believe. But it has to find mental clarity, quickly. The north must institute a comprehensive population control measure. The north has to lock the tap. Mops won’t do. The north lacks the resources to care for the children that it is currently producing on an industrial scale. It can’t abolish child malnutrition, Almajiri culture, high infant and maternal mortality until it puts a leash on its birthrate. Until the north checks its population growth rate it cannot check the wild fire of poverty that is ravaging its communities.

The north must wake up now.

Boko Haram and rampant banditry have stabbed the north into wakefulness. But the north is waking up only in bits. The north is still sleepwalking.

The north left the tap running for too long. It is now flooded with problems that teeming illiteracy and joblessness create. The north must turn off the running tap first. The north must institute immediate population control. Yes, it will have to curb Almajiri by democratizing education. But it must shut the tap first. Without an effective and immediate population control policy, the north and the country are doomed.

It’s unfortunate it had to get to this. It’s unfortunate it had to take banditry for the north to think mass literacy and abolition of Almajiri culture. Yobe has no existing factory. A bulk of the population of the Northeast lives in IDP camps. The future looks bleak. And there is no sense of urgency yet.

Northern billionaires must think industrialization of the north. It must be intentional. The potentials abound. There is a strong youthful population. They can’t wait for Bill Gates and Jimmy Carter.

The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep again.

*Col Stan-Labo rtd., contributed this piece from Abuja

https://businesshilights.com.ng/education-a-wake-up-call-and-blunt-truth-to-my-fellow-northern-brothers/
Lalasticlala

MetaPhysical:
See Azikiwe dress in Yoruba clothes. Ive never seen a picture of him in Ibo dress. Papa Awo has on his work dress, casual.

And who told you the dress is Yoruba dress?

MetaPhysical:
Over the years Yoruba have steadily urbanized and civilized Ibo in fashion, styles and swag. We have succeeded with some. There are still some stragglers whose sense of fashion and styling is grandeurly distasteful. This sunglasses is one example of such.

According to Ooni, Yoruba and Ibo are inseparable so we must patiently continue in our brotherly and sisterly love and show Ibos how to dress in public.....what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. Perharps in a time not too far ahead we will have a 100% compliance and total achievement in their transformation.

I like the lace blouse she has on.
Now, where did Obiano get that rayban...thats dope! .

Louis Ojukwu, First Nigeria richest man

MetaPhysical:
Over the years Yoruba have steadily urbanized and civilized Ibo in fashion, styles and swag. We have succeeded with some. There are still some stragglers whose sense of fashion and styling is grandeurly distasteful. This sunglasses is one example of such.

According to Ooni, Yoruba and Ibo are inseparable so we must patiently continue in our brotherly and sisterly love and show Ibos how to dress in public.....what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. Perharps in a time not too far ahead we will have a 100% compliance and total achievement in their transformation.

I like the lace blouse she has on.
Now, where did Obiano get that rayban...thats dope! .

Tell me who know fashion between these men tell me who always look smart

GistMore5:
Ebele Obiano, wife of Anambra state governor, Willie Obiano, stepped out today in very stylish Gucci sunglasses.

See more photos here; http://gistmore.com/anambra-first-lady-ebele-obiano-steps-out-in-stylish-gucci-sunglasses-photos

Governors of two sister States, Delta and Anambra, only ignorant mind that doesn't know you can trek from Asaba down to Onitsha

groovie:
They had those cranes previously.

Go and read the report

groovie:
This news is useless. How can 2 cranes help that port now? Mobile cranes o.
Btw those pictures are not from onne port.

They added two Cranes

kunmiiii:
Oh! You think constituting nuisance allover the cyber space with an utter distain and hatred for other tribes is how to clamour for equity and justice

The Igbos will continue to roam a barren land, with no place to call home by the time erosion is done with that landlocked area called the South East.

Soon Lagos and the rest will be wipe by ocean, Otondo I thought I educated you on Landlock

Okoyeeboz:
[/quote][quote author=YorubaHero12 post=80871335]I really don’t know much about the history of Onne port to be honest unless if I read it up.
Please can you tell me why Jonathan did not rehabilitate the port when he was president to make it the economic hub and reduce the dominance of the Lagos port?

I’m waiting for your reply.

Your tribes so much love president Buhari he didn't get landslide victory in Southwest, he lost in two states in West and win with small margins in remaining three, you guys are funny, see the way you and your likes are pushing as southeast and South-south are the only regions opposition party exist and hate PMB, with all Buhari did for you guys and your tribe's man on the ticket, he managed to win some states in Southwest, and your tribe's men are always insulting him on media, you guys are first class ingrate.


We appreciate what he is doing in the East, any project he is executing in the east you guys will be writing rubbish as all the Igbos hate him, I know these projects seriously paining you guys bitter tribe

Afam4eva:
Isn't Ogidi supposed to be part of greater Onitsha?

It is bro, Surprise it was recognized by the reporter meaning the importers use Ogidi instead of Onitsha

osuofia2:
ON THE PAGE OF NEWSPAPER RIGHT

Just respect yourself before I bombed this thread with what you are asking

osuofia2:
WHAT DEVELOPMENT HAS HE BROUGHT TO ANANBRA ASIDE THE MEDIA PROPAGANDA COMPARE TO UMAHI

Instead to focus on your state you are dragging Anambra, I guess you don't want to enjoy this thread

osuofia2:
BETTER THAN THE SCAM OBIANO AND IPKEAZU

You most be sick by saying he is better than Gov Obiano, do you know how many industries Gov Obiano brought to Anambra, Obiano constructed three flyovers, many long span bridge and roads in his first tenue, Akeredolu is still battling with one and only flyover in Ondo state

According to the report The WACT is determined to becoming the new hub of economic activities in Nigeria, being the gateway to major markets in Onitsha, Kano, Abuja, Nnewi, Enugu, Aba, Ogidi and Port Harcourt which will in turn boost the nation’s economy.


I'm clad Ogidi, home town of Chinue Achebe is taking her rightful position in Commerce, Ogidi now host of many markets including famous Ogidi international building material market in Anambra, the largest building materials market now is located in Ogidi, Ogidi international building materials feed many building materials markets in the East, middlebelt and North, my Aunty that built commercial house in Port Harcourt, I was surprised that she bought the building materials in Ogidi and transported them to PH.

Blue3k:
Who's in pain clown. You're the only one surprised at the report. Its your clown patrol preaching eastern ports are dysfunctional or not open for business..

Monitoring spirit You have been monitoring eastern ports since, I could remember when you wrote large vessel can sail to Onne Port because of it shallowness according to you
Read this

THISDAY checks showed that vessels now sail directly from Asia (particularly China), America and Europe to Onne including vessels as large as 4000TEUs capacity. This has had a direct moderating impact on the cost of goods as compared to the position in the past.

Blue3k:
Lol at best kept secret.

I feel your pain, I know people from your region will not be happy reading this report

With the launch of two new Mobile Harbour Cranes worth $10 million and other investments, the West Africa Container Terminal, Onne Port, River State has become the new hub of economic activities in Nigeria and the gateway to major markets, writes Eromosele Abiodun


Following the suffering and cost incurred by importers, exporters and other stakeholders in the maritime sector as a result of the unending Lagos ports access roads gridlock, there have been calls for other ports in the country, especially the eastern ports to be activated to solve the congestion in Lagos.
But some players in the industry had argued that the investment required to get the eastern ports running is not readily available hence the continued suffering at the Lagos ports with delays and million lost to demurrages and other rates.
However, it has been a different story in the last one year at Onne Port in Rivers State as the West Africa Container Terminal (WACT), one of the first green field container terminal to be built in Nigeria under public private partnership, has since set the ball rolling. WACT is located in Onne port (some 30km from Port-Harcourt) in Rivers State.

Described by importers as the best kept secret, the company has been successfully connecting East, North, West Central Nigeria and Rivers State to the world since its establishment a few years ago. This has been possible through top-quality services, cordial business relations with customers, regular interaction with stakeholders, human resource development, modern handling equipment and superior e-commerce capabilities.
As a result of this, vessel traffic has since hit the millions as traders and importers in the east no longer bring their goods through Lagos ports but rather go to the Onne port for easier access to their target market.

Some importers, told THISDAY has reduced their cost of doing business drastically, stressing that the facilities at the Onne port makes it possible for them to clear goods in few days unlike what obtains in Lagos where they spend weeks in traffic and pay all manners of fines and expense before they get their goods to its destination.
Over the last three years, the WACT terminal has seen significant increase in volumes resulting in its investment in various containers handling equipment such as five reach stackers, two empty handlers and 14 terminal trucks.
WACT, stakeholders said, has positively impacted trade and economic activity in Nigeria by increasing the competitiveness of the port. This makes the terminal attractive for shipping lines coming from all parts of the globe. THISDAY checks showed that vessels now sail directly from Asia (particularly China), America and Europe to Onne including vessels as large as 4000TEUs capacity. This has had a direct moderating impact on the cost of goods as compared to the position in the past.


The company achieved this as a result of the massive investment made in the areas of yard capacity, introduction of sophisticated cargo-handling equipments and electronic solution for invoicing and payments, thus reducing vessel- waiting time, dwell times and above all reducing the number of days for containers to arrive Nigerian markets from the origin of shipment.

WACT, which began commercial operations in 2007, and has proven to be one of the most customer-friendly ports in Nigeria and the most efficient gateway to most markets outside the greater Lagos area. The terminal has a capacity of 314,000 TEUs and 250 reefer plugs with a depth of 12 meters. The terminal is a one-stop shop business environment that houses shipping lines and government agencies within the terminal to reduce travel time for customers and increase the ease of doing business in WACT.

Increased Investment
WACT last week launched two new Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHCs) worth $10million (N3.6 billion) for discharge of cargoes at the terminal.

The Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHCs), which is coming on the heels of 10 new specialised terminal trucks and two new reach stackers were expected to increase the turnaround time of vessels at the terminal.

The two new container cargoes handling facilities would bring WACT at par with its peers in Apapa, and Tin Can Island Ports, in terms of equipment and operational efficiency.


Speaking on the MHCs, the Managing Director, WACT, Aamir Mirza said the massive investment at the terminal has attracted 700 direct and 2000 indirect employment in the country.

He said the company had recorded tremendous growth of 17 per cent in 2017, 21 per cent growth in 2018 and 20 per cent growth attained so far this year.

Mirza described the $10 million investment as a key enabler to customers’ satisfaction adding, “Our vision is to make WACT the best performing container terminal in West Africa. We believe this vision can be realised early enough if the government can support us to reduce the challenges of security by ensuring the safety of vessels on our waters, and improve road connectivity, among others.


“The WACT is determined to becoming the new hub of economic activities in Nigeria, being the gateway to major markets in Onitsha, Kano, Abuja, Nnewi, Enugu, Aba, Ogidi and Port Harcourt which will in turn boost the nation’s economy. Hence, our resolve to keep investing and increasing the competitiveness of the WACT so that larger ships can call the port directly and importers do not have to travel hundreds of thousands of miles to collect their goods when they can easily do that in Onne.”


Mirza said the cranes would enable volume growth resulting in increased productivity; reduced port stay and provide bunker savings; improve reliability in cargo delivery times; reduce the impact of crane breakdown/idle time on overall terminal operations; and increase customers satisfaction and speedy delivery.

Also speaking, the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello, said the new cranes would aid efficiency and improve vessels turnaround time at the terminal. He reiterated the federal government’s commitment to encourage more importers to patronise Onne Port, adding that government is determined to see shipping make significant contributions to the economy.


He said: “Our terminals need to grow and show efficiency. I am happy with the competition because this is how to compete. We need options, choice for shippers where they will discharge their cargoes. The commissioning of these Mobiles Harbour Cranes is no doubt significant because it will improve efficiency. We are happy with the 30 per cent increase in volumes of cargoes and in the long run, more Nigerians would be employed and it will make the terminal operation contribute to the economy.

Free Zone objects
“The more efficiency we have, the more cargoes we will get because Nigeria is a natural harbour due to the market that is available and I am happy today that this terminal is becoming one of the most efficient we have in West Africa and this is gladdening our hearts, and the main reasons of concessioning the port to private sector will be realised by this terminal and we will use this terminal to benchmark the performance of other terminals.”

The Managing Director, Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority (OGFZA), Umana Okon Umana, lauded WACT for making the nation meet the objectives of establishing the free zone.

He promised to run the free zone in a professional manner and assured of provision of dedicated power to the zone for efficient service delivery.

He said: “For us, the fact that WACT is expanding their operation is a show of confidence they have in the economy and confidence they have in Nigeria and the MD said they have sent Nigerians out for training because this are very specialised equipment and as we know; the objectives of free zones is to attract foreign direct investments that will support job creation, support transfer of skills and technology and what government loses by tax revenues, government takes back in employment, skills and transfer of skills.”
On her part, the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman lauded the company for acquiring the new cranes, even as she urged shippers to patronise Onne Port.

Bala-Usman, who was represented by the Onne Port Manager, Al-Hassan Ismaila, said the government was looking into the security of vessels on the nation’s high sea.

“The Onne Port is a nexus to connecting the North-East, North-central, South-south and South-east, so cargoes for this section of the country are expected to be discharged through this port. We are calling on shippers to patronize Onne Port because of the friendly environment, and the synergy between the agencies of government operating at the port,” she added.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/08/02/new-hub-of-economic-activities/