How Govs can make states richer
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No reason for unemployment, hunger in the states
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No need to depend solely on FG
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State-by-state listing of mineral deposits
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By Cosmas Okocha, Jubrilu Lado & Jerome Azubuko |
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Nigeria
continues to be subsumed by poverty and
unemployment, yet abundant wealth surrounds her.
“There is no reason why Nigeria should remain
poor, considering the vast mineral resources she
is blessed with”, Dr Ngozi Okonjo – Iweala,
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister
for the Economy, said recently.
Investigation by FRESH FACTS shows that if her
leaders were proactive, inward-looking and
honest, there is no reason why the nation’s main
dependence should be on crude oil which
scientists say may dry up in 2051. Professor
Agbaji Ogezi, geologist and head of PTDF
Professorial Chair Endowment on Geology,
University of Jos, recently announced that
unless exploration was stepped up and new oil
wells found and exploited, Nigeria’s main source
of revenue, crude oil, will dry up in 40 years.
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What has the RMRDC got to do with it?
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The
Raw Materials Research and Development Council,
RMRDC, is another agency of government whose
activities governors should ordinarily pay close
attention to and take advantage of its work and,
make more money to better the lives of their people.
This can be done if they pro-actively partner the
private sector and work towards the
commercialization of its research findings. These
raw materials are, after all in the states. The
council’s mandates are to:
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Time to exploit our underground wealth?
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The
table below shows the distribution of
N152,745,169.59 from the Foreign Excess Crude
Account being the differential between budget &
actual revenue generation. The disbursement was made
to the beneficiaries at the meeting of the
Federation Account in March, 2012 after the meeting
of the Federation Account Allocation Committee.
Despite these huge allocations to the states,
governors are still unable to do much in the
empowerment of their people. Is now not the time to
look inwards and exploit our underground wealth?
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Every Nigerian state is rich
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ABIA
STATE
Gold
Lead/Zinc
Limestone
Oil/Gas
Salt
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Editorial:
Scrap EFCC, ICPC? Questions for Governors
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...Governors
should cultivate the traditional African
virtues of honesty and integrity:
they should stop stealing...If they do, then
would they have any need to fear the EFCC
and the ICPC or, indeed, the Law and the Day
of Judgment?
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Pension scam:
Ex-director granted bail
Former Director of Pension office
and ex-PDP governorship aspirant in
Kogi state, Dr. Sanni Shuaibu who
was arraigned with four others by
the Economic and Financial Crimes
Comission(EFCC), before Justice
Adamu Bello over the charge of
fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud
and concealing the illicit origin of
N439million stolen pension funds,
was granted a N50million bail with
one surety by justice Adamu of the
Federal High Court, Abuja,
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