Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Lagos PDP commends Governor for taking up abandoned projects!!!

The Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has commended Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for completing abandoned projects in the state.
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The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has lauded what it termed the outstanding performance of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress in the state.

The spokesman for the opposition PDP chapter, Taofik Gani, said in a statement on Monday, that Ambode had taken government’s presence to many areas in the state allegedly abandoned for eight years by his predecessor, Babatunde Fashola.

The PDP advised President Muhammadu Buhari to be wary of Fashola, who, it said, had a penchant for making unverifiable claims of achievements.

The opposition party also expressed reservation over Buhari’s decision to give three ministerial portfolios relating to engineering to Fashola, who is a lawyer.

The PDP berated Fashola for celebrating a proposed injection of 30 megawatts into the national grid, when, according to the PDP, the minister had been provided with resources enough to inject over 500 megawatts into it.

Gani said instead of celebrating, Fashola should have been sober for allegedly mismanaging the country’s power generation from “6000MW when he took over to now less than 2000MW.”

He said, “We sincerely advise President Buhari to be very wary of the deceptive skills of Fashola who will usually hype and celebrate even mediocrity.

“Fashola has a penchant for misrepresenting facts of his achievements in government and would always rationalise obvious inadequacies.”

“As governor of Lagos State, he enjoyed unprecedented revenues and donations, yet he left many services untouched or unfinished. He, however, deliberately funded his pro-Fashola media and commentators so much that pseudo and exaggerated achievements were ascribed to him.

“He employed this model to promote his eight years government of mediocrity. Fashola ended up making Lagos State the biggest debtor with local and foreign debts well over N1trn.”

PUNCH NEWS

Kano State will harvest about 1.2 million tons of rice this year, 500,000 tons more than what they need

ill get a total sum of N54,866,488,320 (Fifty four billion, eight hundred and sixty six million, four hundred and eighty eight thousand, three hundred and twenty naira) this year from rice exportation alone.
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If they decide to sell all the 1.2 million tons of rice at the same rate, then they would have about N131 billion from the sales of rice alone. If we're generous and remove 50% of that amount for expenses, then we would be talking about a profit of about N65.5 Billion. Who says agriculture does not pay?
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Their governor, Abdulahi Ganduje, said he was urged into this project by president Buhari, in his agenda to diversify the economy. Next year, it is expected that Kano State will produce 2 million tons of rice, which is 50% of Nigeria's rice need of about 4 million tons. If this is done successfully, then Kano State would compete favourably with Lagos State in IGR, and would be well ahead of all the oil-producing states including the lazy Rivers State.
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Following the commitment of the Kano State government to key into President Buhari's diversification agenda, the CBN also gave out interest free loans to over 10,000 farmers in the state in the Anchor-Borrower program. Several other Nigerian states are beneficiary of this project, even our neighbouring Bayelsa State. Nigeria will be self-sufficient in rice consumption by the end of next year, and will become a net exporter of rice by 2018, one year before Buhari leaves office.
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When Buhari said he was committed to diversifying Nigeria's economy, some people thought he was joking. But we're beginning to see the result... Those who are working are working, while those who are jumping from pillar to post playing fruitless politics of witch-hunting Amaechi are doing so. At the end of four years everyone will show his scorecard. While some people will show us insecurity, killings, destruction of properties, filling of potholes, propaganda, and devilish politicking, others will show us economic diversification and a large amount of IGR.