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Iamgrey5:
Industrial revolution starts agricultural revelation in any country in the world.

We don't need much infrastructure to develop our agricultural industry. We need a large labour which we are already blessed with

Secondly, America have stopped importing oil in large quantities as soon as it figured out a way to tap its crude oil through fracking.

No country in the world imports what it can produce or where it might have a competitive advantage.

This is 21st century, no developed country talks about agriculture capacity anymore , every nation that deem to developed are now directing thier energy on industrialization capacity.

What you need in developing agricture is not about large pool of labour but skilful pool of labour who will be augmenting their work with technology. A million of unskillful farmer will end up producing stony rice as it is recorded.

America have stop importing oil from Nigeria but has double its import from Saudi Arabia and the rest of the gulf . America consumption far outweighs its production, so logic demand it import to compliment the existing capacity.. no single country in the world is self sufficient, even India the largest rice producer still import a small quantity of rice product from nearby Myanmar.

Iriruaga100:
Article written by frank of IMAN is without clear direction. How do you grow your economy through importation? Nigeria has vast arable land for cultivation of rice and other agricultural produce. Same for other west African countries. Why do you have to import what you can produced locally? [b]How do you grow local industries? [/b]This is the big question... Ghana and other should give us answers.

by improving public infrastructure and enhancing investment opportunity by removing the gridlock surrounding business enviroment.

Iamgrey5:
Which country with a population of 100 million plus in the world today relies solely on distribution of goods?

is it Pakistan? Brazil? Indonesia? et al

All the countries I mentioned above are nations that relies heavily on production of goods and services to create the much needed employment for their population.

And although Nigerians realize that we have our limitations in terms of available infrastructural facilities, we also believe there are certain things we should be able to produce for ourselves because we have considerably cheap labour.

Agricultural industry seems like where we can trive and we would do anything to protect and nurture that industry.

Pakistan, Brazil and Indonesia All have basic infrastructure that it's fuelling their economy.. for Nigeria to shoulder up with this above nation, then it should developed its basic infrastructure first . and along the line , all this aforementioned country practice what is called comparative advantage. they import what is not enough or augment their production just to maintain above capacity . it is common to see America importing oil despite having it huge and in abundance and it is also common to see China importing rice despite having a large capacity to feed itself. comparative advantage has proven to be the efficient system of economy and whenever consumption exceed production , simple logics determine, more should be imported to augment the existing capacity.

Nigeria should be talking about industrialization now not agriculture. an industrialized enviroment will automatically improved mechanized farming.

Iamgrey5:
It's going to limit smuggling and encourage local production

Nigerians don't need cheap goods, Nigerians need jobs and employment opportunities.

Then this achievement cannot be established by closing the border. Distribution channel contribute about. 50 percent of Nigeria GDP. no buisness or organization can established thru out the 700 local goverment therefore it make sense for people to act as distributor for product. to get to their final consumer. Nigeria at the moment is not producing enough due to poor infrastructure and worrisome bureaucracy. what do you think will be. the next alternative.

Iamgrey5:
Bruv the border remains close

Why do you think closing the border is of anything beneficiary?

copied form IMAN and edited by vaxx2.

Realnigeria:
He urged all citizens to remain patient as the closure of the border is indeed in our interest.
https://afrinewsreport..com/2019/11/nigeria-china-closed-its-borders-for-40.html

if an authority in Nigeria can sound this way , then Nigerian business men are in trouble . China alongside India were once the economic powerhouse of the world . China historically is buoyant economically with sophisticated technology thru the medieval age.

China’ population was usually larger than Europe’s, and the various phases of Chinese empire were wealthier and more technologically sophisticated. Nigeria has no historical advantage nor was it buoyant to stand on its own. Morocco , Algeria and Egypt are the only country with such in africa. yet they are not with this porous thinking.


And, of course, China system of centralized goverment is another thing this custom authority didn't think thru, over 52 billion dollar of Chinese citizens cash working abroad are flowing in to the economy during the closure, ( it is called foreing remmittance) how miuch are Nigeria citizens working abroad pumping into Nigeria economy. this cash is what was used to establish various industrial hub around the suburb of China.

it is time Nigeria stop thinking childishly and focus on how to annexed a market volume of 1.3 billion people instead of looking at 200 million population which can not fast track development and industrialization.


comparing China to Nigeria by the custom authority shows the man need serious education.

The objective purpose of closing the border by Nigeria goverment is to make Nigeria a prosperous nation by growing the local industry and empower the teeming unemployed youth.

But history had prove this idea to be impractical and unproductive.

In the 1950s and 1960s, governments of many countries in Africa and Latin America erected trade barriers. The plan was to enable the industries of their countries to grow, “protected” from outside competition. What actually happened was the opposite..

Although the industries in these “protected” countries grew for a short period, the lack of competition meant that their industries became inefficient and fell behind the rest of the world. Also, because imports were very expensive or even unavailable, their costs of production rose as they were stuck using old technologies.

Soon these “protected” industries were producing goods that few people wanted, exports fell and, in many cases, the industries – usually run by friends of the president – had to be subsidised by the state in order to keep them afloat.

""Governments paid for these subsidies by taxing farmers (either directly or by forcing farmers to sell to marketing boards) and by borrowing – one of the reasons why so many African and Latin American countries have such large debts. Some governments, such as Brazil’s, printed money to pay off the debt and this led to hyperinflation, reduced confidence in the economy and caused massive disinvestment,”

The closure of borders to ward off competition has been proven not to work and should be abolished.

The significance of the subject tell us that governments should not try to create national champions by “protecting” them from competition or by subsidising them. Nigeria even had a remarkable case to learn, operation feed the nation was a Goverment policy which was aim to grow the local food production and reduce Nigeria dependence of foreing product, but as history will have it, the opposite was the case, the over population of the country frustrated the policy and the ecomical implication is what we have today. logically telling us no country can entirely be self sustainable....



There are have been reports of food inflation in Nigeria now.

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Jonraid:
Total enumerated population in the recently concluded 2019 Census

Male: 23,548,056
Female: 24,014,716
Intersex: 1,524

Total Population: 47,564,296

Great, Ghana is also embarking on digital census early next year. first time any west Africa country will be conducting census thru electronic.

Just30:


still the same


by alternative, you mean generator
no wonder you think from your ass.


the first dumb medical student I've come across .

. medical student my ass. that dumb idiot.


The country is embarking on another 3 billion dollar loan for the poor electricity infrastructure. I hope this will work this time around.

Carmit:
You're wrong my boy.

Then mention any regional maritime university in west africa? I hope you know what is called regionally owned.

samorobo:
Just imagine...I need to travel to rest part of the world to be exposed about expensive Nungua that Is in Accra...
Maybe he was trying to shift goal post....

I stop quoting you cus i realised you aren't informed yourself. if not you will not be having a childish argument as debate.

When you are ready to speak up about your UK experience which I think I am much interested to know. quote me. you never appear to me like someone who is exposed . I am unapologetic with my words anyway.

Carmit:
What a mentality you got there...
So you have to travel out of Nigeria to be 'exposed' in 2019...

You don't need to quote me if you can't process basic investigation in 2019?

samorobo:
Who keeps giving you this likes...
.just this statement generated 125 likes

So does likes turn to money ? and you also need to be jealous of immaterial like.

POKUASI2:
you're from God forsaken enzimma in the Western region where even cockroaches are running away. You can't compare that to imo state that can go head to head with Accra in terms of development..

You are very stupid for that utterances. the best village in imo which is owerri is not as developed as enugu another impoverished village in the eastern zone. have you ask yourself why your people and the most educated Nigeria from south west refuse to relocate to your hell? it is because of two things... you are backward in infrastructure and also in human development. it is that brutish life you idiot brought to Ghana, and think you can turn a peaceful and working enviroment to a lawless enviroment of yours which greatest achievement is building Mandela statue by erstwhile okorocha. very sick osu tribe.

pacretus:
I [s]take Ghanaian as dirty pigs including you.

I shouldn't be exchanging words with pigs. Its demeaning.

Now fvck back to where you fvcked from.[/s]

You are a clown.

POKUASI2:
it's a place I know too well. Listen, most the guys here are from villages and may not know much about Accra.. and their media house know how to twist headline and news about their country..

You this osu idiot ,Aren't you from village yourself? Your first exposure out of Nigeria was Ghana and you stupidly think you knows? of which you know next to nothing ? which part of the village in imo state are you from ? I mean which part of the yellow soil village are you from in the village .

samorobo:
So I heard..that's why I was surprised to see that place on the list..

your own rational searching should have exposed you to so many information about nungua. nungua is where obasonjo and the rest of many Nigeria finest army trainned.""Ghana millitary academy"". it share part of its land with sea and many goverment agency are located around the cost . with a reputable maritime university which is affiliated to another maritime university in Switzerland....

samorobo:
Be honest!!!

Are you trying to interrogate me or what?...we are talking Nungua here and I want to know more about her..

Well for starters I have been to US , uK E.t.c

which part of the UK, do you visit? i can't be engaging a small mind thinking it is geniue? and how many permit month where you given. I have to know your exposure

not to be like interrogation, I have fly in from Germany to Nigeria, then to Ghana two times this year.... You may ask me any question...

samorobo:
You keep saying debunk, debunk by who exactly..your govt which without doubt makes up the ghaana integrity initiative

Why are you slow. how can Ghana initiative integrity be goverment agent? Do your own searching/ researching online to verify the status of the organisation.

samorobo:
I have travelled out severally but not to Ghana, so permit me if I am making inquiry about your enivironment...it's part of learning and you love Knowledge transfer, don't you?

where have you travelled to ? Be honest .

samorobo:
I wish you the best but I am a little bit skeptical about the enivironment
.....how is Nungua good enough to host visitors, or am I wrong to think that nugua is not worthy...

Pokuasi help me out here since you are familiar with Accra..

Have you ever travelled out of Nigeria before? and regarding nungua , it has both ugly and beautiful sides . the ugly sides is not a tourist attraction area, it is largely host by the locals , why the beautiful side might be too expensive for you. it houses the only regional maritime university in west africa, and houses some three star hotels as well. so choose base on your specification

samorobo:
I am perfectly sure I gave you a rational explanation even though it was concise.....but I would start again, maybe a little length this time.,

You said ghanaweb carries fake news to cause traffic. Those were you words not mine...so tell me why we should trust ghanaweb(this was a site you outright spelt has false news carrier) over an international ranking when clearly their published statement which you labelled third party was coming from your govt...

Btw what pokuasi posted was corruption perception index(CPI) while you countered it blindly with global corruption barometer instead of "CPI".....You made it sound like this Rankers made a mistake and the air has finally been cleared on that....I am surprised that you are surprised....I mean haven't you noticed that nepotism has grown further in this current administration....you shouldn't be in shock...

When I ask for rational explanation, I am not asking for filmsy excuses or explanation base on sentiment opinion, I am directly asking you for logical and critical explanation as to support your reasons.


there are diffrent institutions ranking the corruption index in africa , the most reputable one is afrobarometer, this where uno taped some of its data and inteligence. CPI has a sister agent in Ghana called Ghana integrity initiative , a subsidiary of transparency international which indicate the report is untrue . and that is what the ghanaweb I forwarded reference.


Now that the sister agent have come out to labelled the report been untrue and you still came up just because of whatever reasons is what I am questioning. what is your rational in this childish talk when the report had been debunked .

Kenyans, Nigerians and the rest of Africa in diaspora are cordially invited to Ghana.....


2019 year of return.....December is going be the bomb......

Flashback !!
On November 2nd, 1995 – Michael Jackson receives the Diamond of Africa Award from Ghana’s President, Jerry Rawlings during a dinner at the Hotel Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.

Ttalk:
Meanwhile, this is for some intruders who said Nigeria has created a pathway for transit to and fro Ghana/Nigeria

https://www.facebook.com/206270189411151/posts/2718451041526374/?sfnsn=mo

Just relax till Monday. there is high delegation of Ghanaian diplomat In Nigeria since last week and the meeting held was about creating a temporary corridor for Ghana product . the customs of both country are expected to meet tomorrow to finalized the modalities. And regarding the border extension, buhari is in London currently and any news regarding it may be fake at the end .

Area4Area:
Your fatherland indeed, you think I've forgotten your post where you wrote "GHANA FIRST".
I'm a proud Nigerian and would defend her just as you're doing same for Ghana so stop the lies.

Land borders remain shut for now till those leeching countries sought themselves out.

I am a national of both country, and Ghana being my motherland is my sweetheart.

Area4Area:
Your links to your last paragraph, why are you so interested in the Nigerian market yet you hate Nigeria and Nigerians so much? Tell me the secret

I don't hate Nigeria and Nigerians. how can I hate my fatherland ? I just hate the idealogy of the policy makers. and to your links. i am pretty sure you know the reasons the land border was closed . benin and other neighbouring countries are not allowed.

Area4Area:
Has the corridor being opened yet?
You're making it sound as if it has been created, I'm sure that truck was just heading for the ongoing Lagos trade fair.
Ghana has been exhibiting in Nigeria for years yet we shut our borders.

After exhibiting and interested in exporting to Nigeria, our seaports and airports are available, land borders remain shut for now.

I just told you by this time tommrow you will be updated. Nigeria and Ghana custom are metting to work on the modalities of the agreement . but don't cry when it goes against your wish.

Ghana goods was allow for exhibition but benin product was stop on the road . have you think about that?

Area4Area:
Your bolded said goods going for exhibition and not for the markets, does that sound like a trade corridor that your president and ministers have been crying and begging for?

I am surprised you also don't know the purpose of exhibition is also to trade.....and eventually by tommrow, you will be updated . I already told you Ghana case is diffrent ......


All those goods on exhibition will be sold and forex will be exchange .

Area4Area:
Links please

source ....citinewsroom...

Ghana - Nigeria custom to hold joint meeting

""The meeting is expected to help the two countries set out modalities on how Ghanaian traders may easily cross the Nigerian-Benin border with their goods.

According to the Deputy Minister-in-charge of Trade and Industry, Mr Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, an announcement will be made after the meeting on Monday to that effect.

The Deputy Minister was hopeful the meeting would yield positive results considering the outcomes of all the meetings held between the two countries.

The Deputy Minister stated that following meetings with the Commissioner of Customs and the Minister of Foreign affairs of Nigeria last Wednesday, a Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) truck which was conveying products from Ghana to Nigeria for an exhibition was allowed into that country after several days of staying behind the Nigerian border.

This, the Minister said was a good sign and he was very optimistic the meeting on Monday would yield the needed results.

Speaking on Citi TV‘s The Big Issue, the Deputy Minister said the modalities would make it easier for both Ghanaian and Nigerian trucks to cross the border and improve transparency for Nigerian authorities.

According to him, the two sovereign states are hoping to among other things arrive at a decision that would make authorities know the quantity and type of products en route to each other’s country before the goods arrive.

“When we got to the commissioner of customs, the customs people who went with us also had a very hearty discussion with him and they were all on one side saying that it is important that they have a customs to customs cooperation where they will exchange information even about goods that are about leaving Ghana to Nigeria, so they can do same for us. That way they know what is coming into their country”.

“You heard me say that we are going to create a special window for these Ghana trucks to be able to move in, and the Foreign affairs Minister of Nigeria promised to do this with Ghana and to have that exchange. So the Commissioner of Customs for Ghana and that of Nigeria are supposed to sit down and come up with modalities on Monday."

"He went further to promise that on Monday we are having a crunch meeting and after that meeting, they are going to come out with a brilliant announcement and so we should all open our ears,” Mr Ahenkorah added.



Background

Nigeria closed its frontiers in what it says is to stop the smuggling of products from its neighbouring West African countries into Nigeria.

The action taken by Nigeria was to express its displeasure at the attitude of the Beninese authorities in order to elicit their cooperation.

The closure of the borders which started in August 2019 was expected to be in force for twenty-eight (28) days, however, it looks like the issues remain unresolved thus the continuous closure.

Many trucks have been stranded at the Seme border for several weeks now"".

isthatso:
it's there for everyone to see. I have better pedigree and education that to write "broker" instead of breaker. the fact that you typed it yourself exposed your dodgy pedigree. even in trying to repeat what i wrote you failed because in your head you dont know the spelling!!


see your brother here:

As i said , i love stupid People and I am about to show you the reasons since you are stupid. You as an individual expose a very poor sound of reasoning to basic education and as to what grammer structure entails , if you see the quote sign and you still ignorantly demonsrate it is from me shows how porous your brain is ? You are daft but that shouldn't mean you should be foolish as well.