Nigerian Builder Set to Construct Africa's Next Giant City

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LAGOS, Nigeria—Africa's towns are working out of area, prompting a real-estate developer here to erect what could be Africa's ritziest region on a beach long known as a haven for time laborers and beer tipplers.

The shacks that packed the shoreline called Bar Beach are gone, changed by structure tents. People who squatted here were evicted. For the past four years, a Lebanese-Nigerian property developer has hosed sand into the ocean, creating new area for in the offing running routes, yacht jetties and condominiums with helipads for 250,000 opulent Nigerians.

The newest Eko Atlantic township is emblematic of a flourishing business in Africa where developers construct walled-off towns for ab muscles wealthy on a continent that is still the world's poorest.

Designer Gilbert Chagoury, founder of Nigeria's Chagoury Class, is the epitome of Africa's moneyed type: Aside from a friendship with Statement Clinton, whose 1996 presidential strategy he helped fund, Mr. Chagoury offers an ambassadorship from St. Lucia to the Vatican and a gallery in the Louvre named following him and his partner, equally contributors.

Remove with funding from French banks which are enticed by Africa's rapid development, the 67-year-old Mr. Chagoury is looking to top his job most abundant in colossal real-estate project in West Africa.

"That will probably be very same of Champs Élysées in Paris or Sixth Avenue in New York," says David Frame, handling director of South EnergX, a building model of Chagoury Group. He was sitting on a gravel road that will be smooth into an eight-lane boulevard, finishing at a gated quit into the rest of Lagos.

Africa has got the world's fastest-growing towns, based on the United Nations. Their recent metropolitan populace of 450 million is anticipated to triple next four decades.

As vacant area disappears in African-american towns, foreign investors are performing with the creation of new towns out of woods, grasslands and landfill. Investors be prepared to move huge gains from offering Africa's rich places to reside, function and shop away from the failing infrastructure and squalor of previous cities.

But these tasks attended under fireplace from critics who explain that they may certainly not relieve the property disaster striking the majority of the population. In Lagos, few will have a way to manage Eko Atlantic's glass tower condos.

Meanwhile, many of these gargantuan tasks are struggling. Renaissance Capital Economic Holdings Ltd. of Moscow plans to build an area for 62,000 persons on a coffee farm outside Nairobi, Kenya, and a similar-size project on a pepper subject near Ghana's money of Accra.

The coffee farm in Kenya continues to be just that, as Renaissance computes a dispute with shareholders. The project in Ghana is mired in a disagreement between regional chiefs over who owns the pepper field.

China Global Trust and Investment Corp. created a $3.5 million city for 500,000 persons near Angola's money, Luanda. The suburb opened in 2011 but remains a ghost town, as the government strains to market the $200,000 condos to a population whose per-capita money is $6,000 a year.

Mr. Chagoury hopes that Eko Atlantic will soon be different. Project executives indicate Lagos's population of oil-rich elites, which will be both larger than that of Luanda's and readier to cover top money for clear roads and contemporary infrastructure. They decrease to state simply how much Eko Atlantic will surely cost, other to say it will soon be "in the billions" of dollars.

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Samuel David for The Wall Block Diary

What the Atlantic structure site seems like nowadays

Their city, Lagos, is crowded and chaotic. Its population develops by seven persons every 10 moments, in line with the U.N., which estimates that Lagos has 11 million persons and is the world's fastest-growing megacity. The Nigerian government sets the city's total population at 21 million.

Even yet in classy neighborhoods, sewage pockets up from open ditches. For want of company systems, countless companies fit their headquarters into moldy midcentury ranch houses. At lunch, many companies turn off their lights to sleep chugging electrical generators. To escape choking traffic, many elites drive by helicopter or yacht.

What small property there is for Nigeria's rising middle income is pricey. Average lease on a three-bedroom house in downtown Lagos is $3,624 a month, in accordance with Dubai-based research organization Reidin. Landlords often expect couple of years of lease in advance, preferably compensated in U.S. dollars. It is a challenge for Nigeria's middle income, whose money averages about $600 a month, in accordance with Renaissance Capital.

Buying is simply as tough. Town files on area ownership really are a chaos, stockpiled or missing. Swindles involving forged brands and the fraudulent purchase of villas are common.

House loans come with double-digit fascination rates. In a nation of 167 million persons, you can find only 20,000 mortgages, in accordance with Nigeria's financing minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

To help keep velocity, structure activity increases by 13% a year, according to government statistics. Architect Ade Laoye estimates that Lagos needs at least needs 10,000 extra houses a year.

"We do not have the architects, electricians, bricklayers, designers, the contractors," Mr. Laoye says.

One individual who have sources is Mr. Chagoury, a Nigerian-born structure magnate. He got his first taste of city-making in the 1990s, once the government appointed him to construct a small banana-shaped peninsula now dotted with million-dollar homes.

In 2003, Lagos's government approached Mr. Chagoury with a problem. Waves were crashing around Bar Beach, washing away some of the drug scene, but also flooding shore-side paths and wetting the lobbies of essential Nigerian companies.

He returned by having an provide to build a ocean wall without charge. In return, Lagos's government allowed his company to dredge mud from the underside of the Atlantic Ocean—and shoot it out of a hose to generate 3.9 sq miles of beach.

The sq mile mixed to date is a panorama of mud, resembling the Sahara. Manhole addresses appear several feet above the dunes because the skeletal beginnings of a drainage system. Nearby the water, cranes decline X-shaped blocks to make a ocean wall.

Mr. Chagoury dropped requests for an interview. But challenge professionals say that they curently have distributed all but two of the several dozen making web sites on the sandlot. Consumers program an global school, high-rise condos, spas, headquarters for several fat companies, a conference center formed like the sails of a vessel and a U-shaped office tower called Unity.

Lower-end developers fear such endeavors can inflate the cost of making components for decades to come. An already extended method of getting bricklayers and cement mixers can keep to perform here.

Designers like Michel El Chemor are unapologetic about catering to the utmost effective end of Nigeria's property market. He acquired a plot from Mr. Chagoury for the site's first skyscraper: a $50 million, 24-story residence called Eko Pearl. It will peer out around a marina—and the smog and skyline of Lagos.

"I am sorry to say, but it's chaos in Lagos," he says. "They're likely to need to destroy what they had before and rebuild it, that will have a long time."

Newborn Baby Girl Gets Thrown to Death from 17-Storey Building

A Chinese newborn with her umbilical cord still attached was found dead after apparently being thrown from a 17-storey building, Daily Mail reports

Highly distressing images of the infant lying in a pool of blood, too graphic to publish, have been circulated widely on social media and news websites in China.

It is believed the girl's body was found on the busy pavement on Saturday, prompting an urgent police investigation to find the baby's mother.

Two Moroccan Women Infect 16 ISIL Terrorists with AIDS

As militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) continue to hold off an international air strike coalition and advances from local fighters in Syria and Iraq, the terror group is now facing a new threat that has already wiped off some of its members: sexually transmitted disease.

In this October 22, 2014, file photo, thick smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border.

Local News: Landlord Abandons Home For Land Grabbers

A landlord in Ikeshin Village, Ota, Ogun State, Alhaji Nojeem Obileye, has abandoned his home after some land grabbers in the area allegedly threatened to deal with him for accusing them of causing the mayhem that led to the death of one Alhaji Idowu Arinadeagbo.

Obileye said since he spoke in June about the incident, known and unknown people had threatened to take his life for saying the truth.

He said, “I am surprised they have targeted me because it is a known fact that many of the land grabbers use thugs to seize portions of land. I am not the only one in the village privy to this.”

The landlord added that one Kunle Matanmi, a nephew to the a traditional ruler in Ogun State, Oba Fatai Matanmi, had called him on the telephone to register his displeasure for saying Matanmi gave backing to some of the land speculators when he spoke to reporters.


Although the monarch denied the allegation when our correspondent spoke with him in June, Obileye said Kunle was not satisfied and had promised to deal with him for “soiling the monarch’s name.”

He said, “Kunle Matanmi has called me twice on the telephone to threaten me. “Apart from mentioning his name, a discreet investigation revealed that the number that called my line was Kunle’s telephone number. So, I am taking the threat serious.”

Obileye said Kunle had also visited his house in company with some people, adding that the development made him and his family members to flee his residence.

Obileye’s lawyer declined to reveal his name for fear of reprisal. He said, “I have been going to the police on behalf of Obileye. The police said since Obileye could narrate so much to the media, he must know a lot about the murder. They said the thugs who killed Arinadegbo parked their vehicle in Obileye’s factory. However, I told them that Obileye was just a witness, not the criminal.”

However, when our correspondent called Kunle on the telephone, he said there was nothing like that.

“That is not true; I swear that I did not threaten him. Please don’t mind Alhaji Obileye,” he said.

But other residents of the area said they had been bearing the brunt of daring to speak against the land grabbers.

The Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the police were working towards bringing peace back to the area.

Akure To Produce Next Ondo Governor – Deji Of Akure

The Deji of Akure, Oba Aladelusi Aladetoyinbo has said the next governor of Ondo State either from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, or the All Progressives Congress, APC, must emerge from Akure.

The monarch who made the call barely one year to the governorship poll in the state warned that any party that failed to pick an indigene of Akure would not be voted for by the entire people of the Akure division which according to him comprise Akure-South, Akure-North, Ifedore and Idanre local government areas.

Cattle Rustlers Kill Monarch, Police Inspector, 33 Others

An unspecified number of people were killed on Tuesday evening by gunmen suspected to be cattle rustlers in shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, the police and community sources have said.

A village head in the area, who pledged anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday that the victims included the district Head of Allawa in shiroro, a police inspector and 33 others.

Local News: Real estate lawyers applaud Jonathan around Land Use Behave

Real Property Lawyers Association of Nigeria, RELAN, Thursday, commen-ded President Goodluck Jonathan for contacting for the removal of Land Use Behave from the 1999 Constitution.

RELAN, in a statement by its Vice-President, Procedures, Mr. Adekunle Omotola, observed that Federal Government's commitment was in line with the view of his association during its first national summit on Land Use Behave in Abuja in 2009 and the recent one in Lagos on June 20,2013.

He explained: “RELAN is not ignorant that to eliminate the Land Use Behave, it must evolve with Part 9 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

“We're also aware that the plenary procedure of the Senate and the House of Representatives are discussing the report of Senator Ike Ekeremadu and Mr. Emeka Ihedioha-led Committees on the amendment of the constitution.

“We're satisfied that President Jonathan freely declared that the Land Use Behave is likely to be removed. It is a proper step in the right direction.

“Certainly, President Jonathan's commitment is an extension of the cement stage taken by his quick predecessor in office, late President Umaru Yar'Adua, who forwarded a bill to the National Assembly for amendment of some chapters of the Behave in 2009.

“It is our view that the realistic strategy by the government to eliminate the Behave is to ensure the it wears a human face and to be consistence with democratic norms and ideals.”

FCT Election Is A Shame, PDP Says

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the just concluded Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area councils election as a shame, saying that the federal government, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security operatives manipulated the elections in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The financial and economic implication of violence and terrorism in Nigeria - Halima

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The economic implications of the growing charge of abuse and terrorism in Nigeria can be assessed from various perspectives. The price of diversion of house and national output are immediately affected while you can find long run indirect charge of confronting and curbing the menace. To not be neglected could be the individual charge, the amount of lives wasted in the process.


The task of preventing violent crimes and terrorism has actually been very expensive. Just in 2010, the us government is paying a whale of total on defence and security. Much sum in comparison to expenditures on different critical industries of the society. The price of tackling terrorism in Nigeria also plunges us greater to the mire of poverty and political destabilization, cankerworms which can be themselves, already consuming up the nation's great money and substance resources. In the bid of proffering a feasible indicates by which they could be terminated.


It is saddening to understand that the recent state of uncertainty in the united kingdom is occurring at the same time when all of the important industries in the united kingdom have become moribund. What is even more saddening is that battle against horror is slowly affecting the transfer and tourism industries which are important international trade earners, duty revenue turbines, organization opportunities for growing entrepreneurs and sources of employment.


Domestically, the fight terrorism has triggered a hold down on the most popular “Okada” organization in claims like Borno and Yobe, ultimately causing the bar of the business enterprise in some parts of the these states. Secondly, interstate vacation for organization and alternative activities has been ridiculously affected. Indigenes of southern claims of the country are becoming more scared to see the north and vice versa.
Internationally, Nigerians are increasingly being treated with good suspicion. It is my opinion that the recent repatriation of some Nigerians by the South African-american and English governments might not be unrelated to activities occurring in Nigeria. To top it all, foreigners are finding it difficult to see Nigeria. A nation once believed to be “Huge of Africa”, and one of the very vivid nations in the world. Associated with maybe not farfetched, no “Oyibo” desires to be kidnapped, neither do they would like to be found 1 day in the center of a crossfire between terrorist gangs and safety agents in the accommodations or while sightseeing.


With the state of the state now, one might not be regarded as fully improper to say that terrorism and violent crimes have provided Nigeria and Nigerians more poor labels in four years than crime has done in the 51 years of nationhood.
While we might continue to count the implications of the terrorism and violent crimes on our culture and our economy, it is also essential for us to begin to plot a new vista for our nation. Correct, failure of the government to behave in techniques increase community assurance on such dilemmas have already been showing, coupled with this, our bodies appears to be giving these destroyers of our culture with an increase of factors to perpetrate their dastardly functions – the higher level of crime in high and reduced places, the upsurge in unemployment among a majority of the nation's childhood, bulk illiteracy-cum-ignorance and the hypocrisy of some conventional, political and religious leaders.

However, it is time for something to be performed, and we must think that it will. It may only take some time. A popular find word “it starts with you”, and I challenge say it starts with us. First, we must be described as a nation of positive thinkers and forward lookers such as the Americans who despite continuous political, organic, economic and security problems have maintained to keep their brains above the water.
We ought to exhibit such reliance and perseverance by praying for the country. Subsequently, spiritual leaders should figure out how to desist from teachings that inspire severe spiritual extremism and fundamentalism.
In addition, the us government should stop talking in loud hues, showing people that some people are responsible for the funding of enemy teams in the united kingdom, however being struggling to fine anyone or firm culpable for such act.


More over, security operatives must look into that, the time and energy to unlearn the act of reducing their strength on the altar of greed and learn the exercise of selfless service to individuals as enriched in the theory of patriotism. They ought to stop bothering simple Nigerians whom they are said to be defending on the highway as the bad eggs continue to wander about cot-free.


Efficient and efficient legitimate equipment must also be set in position to make sure that perpetrators of such severe functions against the sovereignty of our nation are decisively worked with.
Lastly, governments at all levels must guarantee they take part in progress concentrated tasks that will help alleviate the pains of the teeming mass Nigerians. It is just whenever we all work together and the us government performs for individuals with social progress in your mind, that we might be able to obtain peace and the resuscitation of our badly terrorism-damaged economy.
Compiled by
Halima Abubakar Aliyu
Team of Mass Connection
College of Maiduguri.

Scandal in Kyrgyzstan After Protest Organizer Seen With US Diplomat

A media scandal has broken out in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan following the posting of a YouTube video showing a protest organizer meeting with the American ambassador.

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Baby Born Without Nose [Photos]

Take a deep breathe, this baby was born without a nose.‘


The rest of him is so cute, sometimes you don’t realize he doesn’t have a nose,’ says mother Brandi McGlathery.Her baby, Eli, was born with an extremely rare condition called complete congenital arhinia.There are thought to be just 37 babies in the world with the condition, and the odds against it are 197 million to one.Father Troy Thompson had joked before the baby was born, ‘I hope he doesn’t get my nose,’ according to local news site

When the baby was born on March 4 in South Baldwin Hospital, Alabama, US, mother Brandi says, ‘I pulled back and said, ‘Something’s wrong!’ And the doctor said, ‘No, he’s perfectly fine.’ Then I shouted, ‘He doesn’t have a nose!’”’ Eli does not have an olfactory cavity and cannot smell. He had a tracheotomy to help him breathe, and thus doesn’t cry, either. Brandi has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for Eli – who may eventually have surgery to build him a nose, and faces frequent doctor’s visits and hospital appointment. Doctors may have to wait until after puberty, as his palate also didn’t form all the way, and his ‘brain is lower.’

Nuhu Ribadu Formally Returns To APC

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, on Friday returned to the All Progressives Congress.
Mr. Ribadu said in a statement he posted on his Facebook page that he rejoined the party online on Friday, and then hosted officials of the party from his Bako Ward in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

Nigeria: Babangida Has Put Down Foundation for N20 Billion Abuja Estate

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Former Nigeria President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has set the building blocks of a N20 thousand 400-unit housing house to be developed by Downtown Shelter Ltd., in cooperation with Kano State government in Lokogoma area of Abuja.

The former President, who set the building blocks on Friday, recommended the dogged initiative of Downtown Shelter for what he identified as the immense economic and social prices the developer is taking to carry on the true house sector in Nigeria.

He needed the sustainable and improvement of the collaboration speed by the Kano State government whose many laudable developmental projects in their state is worth emulation.

Chairman, Downtown Shelter, Mal. Ibrahim Aliyu said the house to be referred to as "The Promenade" would consist of a variety of 1-5 bedroom duplexes across a 2 hectare land.

He said the residences, likely to be completed in 2015, will consist of social amenities including shopping center, club home, swimming pools and basketball courts among others.

Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso recommended the attempts of the FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, who ensured that the area on that the house is going to be developed was guaranteed with regards to name and possession.

He said their state government can be partnering with Downtown Shelter to supply 100 housing models in Durumi area of Abuja at the cost of N9 thousand while over 1,400 models are nearing completion in the newest Amana, Kwakwasiya, and Bandarawo cities of Kano metropolis.

Insight: Nigeria seeks farming revival to break oil curse

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(Reuters) - Down a rotating dust track in that sleepy community in northern Nigeria lies a corn farm which looks significantly just like the dozens that surround it. The difference is, this one is turning a profit.

"I will barely lift my 8-year-old. He's the fattest in the community," claimed Ibrahim Mustapha, 50, pulling fun from his other farmers as he pretends to lift up his puffy son.

The Babban Gona or "Good Farm" project, in northern Kaduna state, is among a handful where individual investment is supporting former subsistence farmers like Mustapha make gains for themselves and the companies backing them.

When President Goodluck Jonathan was elected two years ago, he pledged reforms that will transform the lives of tens of countless farmers who go on significantly less than $2 per day despite occupying a few of Africa's many fertile land.

Gas stays the key supply of foreign currency and state revenues, but agriculture is undoubtedly the biggest factor to GDP, getting back together 40 % of Africa's 2nd greatest economy.

With 170 million mouths to give and an increasing food import bill thanks to the disarray in the farming market, agriculture ministry officials say there is number time for you to lose.

If production doesn't improve Nigeria can experience a food disaster within a decade, its current bill surplus will be wiped out and the credit value of Africa's 2nd biggest debt issuer will be below threat.

"When we did nothing, it would be a problem," Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina told Reuters in the capital.

"We do not consume gas, we do not consume it ... We can not sustain the quantity of income we use to import food," Adesina claimed, a Nigerian banner hanging behind his company chair.

In some cases, the imports replacement for things Nigerians are growing but can not get to advertise or lack the methods to process.

The country is the second largest farmer of acid fruit in the world after China and yet it uses $200 million annually on imported juice while a unique generate spoils, Adesina said.

Additionally, it generates 1.5 million metric tons (1 metric lot = 1.1023 tons) of tomatoes annually of which 45 % perish, while consumers invest $360 million on tomato substance imported from nations such as Italy and China.

CURING DUTCH DISEASE

To succeed, Adesina's reforms will need to reverse the inadvertent damage performed to the market by Africa's earliest and biggest gas and gasoline growth, which packed out different commodities.

In the 1960s, Nigeria was the biggest exporter of peanuts in the world and had 27 % of the hand gas trade. It remains among the world's prime chocolate growers, but creation and bean quality have dropped since their heyday in the 1970s.

While an elite allied to some military dictatorships grew rich on the spoils of the power market, countless primarily subsistence farmers received little or no help at all.

The effect: Nigeria is currently the world's next largest importer of grain and the biggest customer of U.S. grain, while much of a unique fertile land lies fallow. A flourishing populace has delivered its food import bill rocketing to about $11 thousand annually - comparable to greater than a next of the federal budget

Agriculture also offers the most effective possiblity to reduce unemployment, which bottles an Islamist insurgency in the north and gas theft in the south. Unemployment is 23 % and youth unemployment double that, national data suggest.

"Poverty is the source of lots of the uncertainty problems we have. A hungry person is a furious person," Adesina said.

The minister plans to create 3.5 million new jobs in agriculture and boost food creation by 20 million metric tons by 2015, the season of another national election.

To make this happen, he wants to boost access to microfinance for farmers and pull in $10 thousand of foreign investment into farming and food processing.

He has received tentative praise for early achievements from foreign diplomats, bankers and help agencies, but big agro-business tasks have yet to take off.

Adesina took a damaged fertilizer subsidy out of politicians'arms and now farmers are texted subsidy vouchers right with their cell phones so they can recoup from fertilizer sellers, a plan used in Kenya's farming reforms.

Seventy % of farmers now obtain subsidized fertilizer and vegetables, weighed against 11 % beneath the damaged plan previously run by state governments, Adesina said.

LONG ROAD AHEAD



Production of grain, cassava, grain, sorghum, and corn are climbing and chocolate, Nigeria's most important move crop, appears collection to move up by greater than a next that season.



In 2012, agriculture exports rose by 128 thousand naira ($788 million) and food imports dropped by 850 thousand, Adesina says.

Foreign investors such as food giant Cargill, seed organization Syngenta, brewer SABMiller and Africa's wealthiest person Aliko Dangote are planning to construct everything from fertilizer plants to food handling factories.

However grain imports still absorb $7 million a day, while bad infrastructure and plan flip-flopping have previously seen farming potential wasted. Farmers needs infrastructure to get things to market -- and rural Nigeria's can be as woeful since it gets.



Nigerian billionaire Dangote has pledged to pay $35 million on a tomato substance plant in the northern city of Kano and $45 million in Corner Lake state to process pineapple juice.

Adesina claims he's received $8 billion in commitments but such claims tend to be not held in Nigeria. Cargill and SABMiller told Reuters they are just "considering" investing.

"I'd estimate that no several buck of expense actually occurs for each $100 of released commitments," said Fola Fagbule, an Africa-focused expense bank in Lagos.

A central bank effort has given assures on about 25 billion naira of agriculture loans as it began in July a year ago, lifting lending to the field to about 4 % of complete loans, from 1.5 % at end-2009, the lender says.

The Earth Bank is setting up $100 million into agriculture, while British and U.S. help jobs push in hundreds of millions.

This barely scrapes the $10 billion Adesina claims the field needs by 2015. Smallholders say banks however do not lend for them, while the system doles out inexpensive money to major firms.

"We have heard everything before and I have never observed it get better," claims Alhaji, a character wrestling with two scrawny long-horned cows pulling a rusty plough through a field.

"I've 15 kids and ... we barely get enough food to feed ourselves," he said.

BEARING FRUIT?

A few success reports nonetheless give cause for optimism.

Farmer Mustapha claims he created $1,350 per hectare from his crop following paying back private company Doreo Partners, which goes the Babban Gona challenge, compared to previous decades wherever he might generate $200 per hectare.

"Today I do want to grow my farm, I've so much place I never used. Today I will send my kids to school," he explained, while behind him mainly unused farmland expanded to the horizon.

Doreo is working together with 600 farmers. It's ambitious ideas to improve that to 500,000 by 2020, and 5 million by 2030.

"I understand it looks ambitious but this has been performed elsewhere and Nigeria has so much easy-to-reach potential," said Kola Masha, the business's head.

Masha is trying to emulate big food cooperatives like CHS in the U.S. or India's milk franchise Amul, who make enormous profits while helping an incredible number of smallholder farmers.

He offers farmers high-quality fertilizer, vegetables, gear and experience on credit to hugely improve their yields, while negotiating with firms like Nestle to buy the make at higher rates compared to farmers could get themselves.

Farmers working together with Masha, he explained, are utilizing 40 situations more fertilizer than neighbors who could never afford that amount.

"It's early days but I'm more hopeful than I've ever been," he said.

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Bayelsa Governorship Poll: PDP Activates Structures To Defend Mandate -Metuh

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has activated its structures across the country to defend the party’s mandate in a democratic manner.
Chief Olisa Metuh, PDP National Publicity Secretary made the statement on Monday in Abuja while reacting to the cancellation and rescheduled governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa.
The PDP he said, was “ready, willing and able to defend the choice of the people’’ during the rescheduled governorship poll in Southern Ijaw LGA.
“Never again will this leadership of the PDP allow our party candidates to be manipulated out of any election at any level.

Access Bank Aum Hits 200 % Development

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Access Bank UK Limited, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Access Bank Plc, has declared that its Assets Under Management, AUM, in the private banking and asset management business has increased by over 200 percent to US$18.5 million by the conclusion of 2012. The bank, in a statement, said AUM had continued to grow and now stand at US$66 million. Based on the statement, "the upsurge in AUM has been driven by the ability of Access Bank UK to deepen its client relationships by expanding its product portfolio to its clients beyond its traditional give attention to banking and asset management services. "Buy-to-let property loans, investor visa and discretionary portfolio lending provide new routes for customers to access hard currency outside Africa. "The bank provides private banking services to African/Nigerian Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, UHNWIs, in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. "Services provided include traditional private banking services, property and discretionary portfolio lending." The statement said the amount of customers had grown because the launch of the Private Bank in 2009.

Press statement by Ikedi Ohakim - says his life is in danger

Press statement I just received from the office of former Imo state governor, Ikedi Ohakim.
Following some recent developments around my person and the avalanche of misinformation and deliberate lies being peddled about me, I am constrained to issue this statement, first to douse anxiety of every well-meaning fellow who has shown concern and second, to alert members of the Nigerian public to a clear danger to my life. 

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How I Will Solve Power, Roads, Housing Problems – Fashola

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing has outlined how he intends to tackle the problem of power, roads and housing in Nigeria.
The former Lagos governor, who recognised the Permanent Secretaries under his ministry as key players to the success of his plans, urged Nigerians to support him in achieving his goals.
Read his full statement below:

“SETTING THE AGENDA FOR DELIVERING CHANGE” BEING TEXT OF THE INAUGURAL MEDIA BRIEFING OF THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF POWER, WORKS AND HOUSING.

It is no longer news that the Federal Executive Council, the highest executive decision making organ of the Federal Government of Nigeria has now been inaugurated.

US Forces Locate Chibok Girls-New York Times

MAROUA, Cameroon — The American and African forces sent to Cameroon to fight Boko Haram have, on several occasions, located clusters of the schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant group two years ago, United States officials said.

Rescue operations have not been carried out, the officials said, because of fears that any ensuing battle with Boko Haram fighters would put the captives at risk, or incite some form of retaliation against hostages still being held in other areas.

American officials said a combination of local intelligence, intercepted communications and drone footage had been used to locate groups of the 276 girls abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in the Nigerian town of Chibok two years ago this month. Some of the girls have since been tracked to Nigeria’s sprawling Sambisa Forest.

Akhmed Chataev: An inconvenient “fighter against Russia”

 Original by Boris Rozhin (Colonel Cassad); abridged translation by J.Hawk

submitted by SouthFront: https://southfront.org/akhmed-chataev-an-inconvenient-fighter-against-russia/

It’s like it’s a holiday of some sort.
The main suspect in organizing the Ataturk Airport attack is a Chechen militant by the name of Akhmed Chataev whose biography will simply knock your socks off.