The New Cold War

[gho3st]

lets be real brehs, this will not happen.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

China really holds the cards on a lot of this imo.

That deal with Russia was bigger than the media will admit, I'm kinda interested to see if India aligns itself in that grouping as well. It would kinda make sense since China and Russia have done pipeline work in parts of Central Asia and plan on expanding. How much the alt energy industry gets a boost will let us know how much importance hegemony over the Mid East will have on American foreign policy. However that would also play a factor for Russia and it's own energy industry, so I dunno if major conflict could erupt from that but I wouldn't think it's impossible.

Africa will recover as a continent and be united by 2030 imo, I think the combination of the diaspora's(the more recent one, the older one remains to be seen) return home, infrastructure help from China, and gradually re-appropriating resources and reaping the benefits from them.

Spoiler

....or we can have the same ole 'murrican domination 50 years later.

 

[Kritic]

the russia-china deal is a big deal and of course the media (and coli trolls) will down play it.. kinda like the way bitcoin is downplayed but had a huge 2nd day today in the financial market.. the banks own the media so they control what goes on there.. so to really predict the future you gotta keep up with the alternative media and be able to see through the fuccery of the media..
i was gonna mention bitcoin in my first post but i decided to leave it out. but i think bitcoin will play a big part in future economics.

 

[Kritic]

also nigeria has to consider itself in a cold war with the european union and the united states. esp after the united states stop importing their oil.

refer to http://www.thecoli.com/posts/6823343/

the ex-ambassador to syria said the united states under estimated assad that's why he ain't gone no where. over there it's all out war for him to stay in power in his own country fighitng the "rebels".

with nigeria they're funding boko haram on the low plus trying to take the economy from under them with this oil shyt. the africans have to take this more serious than it really is. this ain't just trying to find a different country to hustle with. this is war cause if you tryin to stop a nicca's money then you must be treated like an enemy




the homie jonathan forced yall to pay taxes and you just upped and left?

and now you stopping to fuq with the homie altogether?

the nigerians smartened up now you don't wanna f with them?

 

[#1 pick]

@Poitier 1st page, my post. Fact check that shyt in three years.

 

[Leasy]

China really holds the cards on a lot of this imo.

That deal with Russia was bigger than the media will admit, I'm kinda interested to see if India aligns itself in that grouping as well. It would kinda make sense since China and Russia have done pipeline work in parts of Central Asia and plan on expanding. How much the alt energy industry gets a boost will let us know how much importance hegemony over the Mid East will have on American foreign policy. However that would also play a factor for Russia and it's own energy industry, so I dunno if major conflict could erupt from that but I wouldn't think it's impossible.

Africa will recover as a continent and be united by 2030 imo, I think the combination of the diaspora's(the more recent one, the older one remains to be seen) return home, infrastructure help from China, and gradually re-appropriating resources and reaping the benefits from them.

Spoiler

....or we can have the same ole 'murrican domination 50 years later.

China and India is not on the best terms especially with China thinking India has a piece of their land. I don't think it will happen but if these countries want U.S to end its role as world dominance I can see them reconsidering their relationship.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

China and India is not on the best terms especially with China thinking India has a piece of their land. I don't think it will happen but if these countries want U.S to end its role as world dominance I can see them reconsidering their relationship.

That's what makes it interesting, they've been rivals for a long time but at the same time combining all these different markets would be huge.

 

[Dreamestorical]

http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-russia-china-axis-continues-to-form/


https://twitter.com/iwelsh

Sub-Saharan Africa, sadly, is largely irrelevant: they will sell their resources to whoever pays for them.

This is why the west will lose. The truth is at the moment Americas biggest threat/weakness/Achilles is not their growing debt or the so called bubbles people keep talking about. Their true weakness is their European counterparts. Many European countries still see african countries as basket cases yet these same European countries practically rely on africa for their survival. The amount of raw materials african countries send to european countries for production is astronomical and it plays a great deal in keeping thier economies afloat. With great joy i can proclaim that things are quietly changing on the continent. Countries like Nigeria, Kenya are already working towards using their resources to produce their own products and sell to neighboring African countries. When this becomes a reality many African countries will opt to trade with each other simply because it will become economically viable. (we are already seeing a little bit of this with Nigeria and her west African neighbors)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2014/06/04-europe-parliament-africa-songwe

The largest exporters to Africa from the EU in 2013 were France (18 percent of all EU exports), Germany (14 percent), Italy (13 percent) and Spain (11 percent). Spain (17 percent of all EU imports), Italy (16 percent), France (16 percent), the United Kingdom (13 percent) and Germany (12 percent) were the largest importers. Manufactured goods accounted for 70 percent of all EU exports to Africa in 2013, while energy made up 64 percent of imports.

Again Many African countries are already looking to industrialize so in the coming years you should see manufacturing exports to africa from europe decline significantly. This is why the EU is vehemently trying to push their EU EPA agreement with the continent. The agreement basically makes African countries open 80% of their economy to tariff free importation of goods from europe.

http://www.punchng.com/business/nigeria-to-stop-exporting-raw-materials-nepc/

The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Export Promotion Council, Mr. Olusegun Awolowo, has said Nigeria will soon take a decision about stopping the export of raw materials.

According to him, the decision will increase the ability of Nigerian manufacturers to export processed goods to other West African countries and to dominate the West African market, which is especially important at the moment.

“But when we stop exporting raw materials, and start processing, producing, manufacturing here (in Nigeria) and we start taking it abroad, we would start a Nigeria brand based on qualities and we can dominate the ECOWAS countries.”

Infact I think I have gotten ahead of myself... If one looks at Europe one could easily conclude the European unions Achilles heel is France. The french economy is nothing but pure shyt. They rely on pillaging thier former African colonies for their survival. The funny thing is that their leaders know this but yet they dont seem to be making any economic changes to address this issue. They still believe their former African colonies will remain slaves to them. This is why I keep telling people of the coli to watch Nigeria. Nigeria is rising and with this rise our influence on the continent, especially west africa where the majority of Frances former colonies resides in is increasing. Nigeria has begun to pressure our neighboring African countries to amend their trade policies and instead focus on putting African interests at the forefront. Little by Little African nations are listening. The fact that african countries have come together to reject the proposed EU EPA agreement was a great show of strength. The Eu has then tried to set a deadline of october 1st 2014, saying if we dont accept it they will close their borders. Such foolishness on their part.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles...to-reject-european-economic-agreement/177403/

African Ministers of Trade and experts in trade and regional integration have aligned with Nigeria’s position on the trade liberalisation deal with the European Union under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), saying it will have a long-term negative impact on the continent’s efforts towards industrialisation and job creation.

Similarly, the Minister of Trade and Private Sector Promotion, Republic of Niger, Mr. Alma Oumarou, said there was the need for African countries to realistically evaluate the impact of EPA before signing.

“We support the position of Nigeria on EPA and should also take a cue from what they have done in terms of carrying out a study on the impact assessment of the implications of signing the EPA,” he said.

Aganga, however, stressed that it was also very important not to do anything that would undermine Africa’s regional integration.
“Whilst it is important to look into the October 1, 2014, deadline for the signing of EPA, we should also fully examine the impact of the withdrawal of market access by EU after this deadline. If it is necessary, Africa should look at ways of compensating member countries that will suffer losses as a result of this withdrawal. We must not be in a hurry to sign an EPA if it will not be in the overall best interest of the continent,” he said.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201405021539.html

While reiterating Nigeria's position on EPA, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga said that Nigeria's position on EPA is very clear that Africa is on the rise. He described the country as a very big and strategic market for any trading partner, noting that it is what the EU wants from Africa, but Africa must jealously protect what it has.

Now back to france.
As I stated earlier France is Europe and the western worlds Achilles heel. Thier economy is especially tied to pillaging their former African colonies. When those former colonies rise up and stand for themselves it will lead to the destruction of Frances economy which in turn will drag the rest of Europe with them. Imagine this... If little old Greece could do this much damage to Europe how much more do you think France falling would do?

http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/jecm...olonial-tax-benefits-slavery-and-colonization

In March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said:

“Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [world] power”

Chirac’s predecessor François Mitterand already prophesied in 1957 that:

”Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century”

At this very moment I’m writing this article, 14 african countries are obliged by France, trough a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank under French minister of Finance control.

#2. Automatic confiscation of national reservesThe African countries should deposit their national monetary reserves into France Central bank.

France has been holding the national reserves of fourteen african countries since 1961: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

“The monetary policy governing such a diverse aggregation of countries is uncomplicated because it is, in fact, operated by the French Treasury, without reference to the central fiscal authorities of any of the WAEMU or the CEMAC. Under the terms of the agreement which set up these banks and the CFA the Central Bank of each African country is obliged to keep at least 65% of its foreign exchange reserves in an “operations account” held at the French Treasury, as well as another 20% to cover financial liabilities.

It’s now estimated that France is holding close to 500 billions African countries money in its treasury, and would do anything to fight anyone who want to shed a light on this dark side of the old empire.

France allows them to access only 15% of the money in any given year. If they need more than that, they have to borrow the extra money from their own 65% from the French Treasury at commercial rates.

To make things more tragic, France impose a cap on the amount of money the countries could borrow from the reserve. The cap is fixed at 20% of their public revenue in the preceding year. If the countries need to borrow more than 20% of their own money, France has a veto.

This is how France was able to shield themselves from the 2008 financial crisis

As you can see France is so dependent on keeping thier african countries in bondage for their survival. Nigerias economic rise and influence on the continent is threatening Frances very existence. Plus as we all know France being one one the biggest nations in europe, if it were to fall would pull the rest of the EU with it and that would have a great impact on america.


Now to make things worse the European people have begun to elect more far right wing politicians who are very pro white, nationalist and anti immigration. This will undoubtedly have a negative impact on their relations with African countries. How will these right wing leaders be able to negotiate with African governments with all their unfriendly policies?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2014/06/04-europe-parliament-africa-songwe

On May 25, 2014, Europe experienced an unprecedented political pivot to the far right, as European Union countries elected their leaders for the next five years. Seven countries of the EU (what I will call the EU7) voted to send far-right parties to Brussels. In France, these parties received 25 percent of the national vote; Denmark, 23 percent; the U.K., 20 percent; Austria, 20 percent; Hungary, 15 percent; Finland, 13 percent; and Greece, 12 percent.[1] Thus, the far right collectively will hold over 30 percent of the seats in the new EU parliament.

again all this is NOT going to help with african relations. Again americas biggest achillies heel is not her growing debt or housing or finance bubbles e.t.c Their greatest threat is the shortsightedness, blindness, ignorance and stupidity of their European counterparts (especially France)
If I were the american government I would be looking to heavily diversify my global trading partners.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[Kritic]

that will take a while to sink in... i didn't know nigeria was this much of a threat.

 

[cole phelps]

This is why the west will lose. The truth is at the moment Americas biggest threat/weakness/Achilles is not their growing debt or the so called bubbles people keep talking about. Their true weakness is their European counterparts. Many European countries still see african countries as basket cases yet these same European countries practically rely on africa for their survival. The amount of raw materials african countries send to european countries for production is astronomical and it plays a great deal in keeping thier economies afloat. With great joy i can proclaim that things are quietly changing on the continent. Countries like Nigeria, Kenya are already working towards using their resources to produce their own products and sell to neighboring African countries. When this becomes a reality many African countries will opt to trade with each other simply because it will become economically viable. (we are already seeing a little bit of this with Nigeria and her west African neighbors)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2014/06/04-europe-parliament-africa-songwe



Again Many African countries are already looking to industrialize so in the coming years you should see manufacturing exports to africa from europe decline significantly. This is why the EU is vehemently trying to push their EU EPA agreement with the continent. The agreement basically makes African countries open 80% of their economy to tariff free importation of goods from europe.

http://www.punchng.com/business/nigeria-to-stop-exporting-raw-materials-nepc/






Infact I think I have gotten ahead of myself... If one looks at Europe one could easily conclude the European unions Achilles heel is France. The french economy is nothing but pure shyt. They rely on pillaging thier former African colonies for their survival. The funny thing is that their leaders know this but yet they dont seem to be making any economic changes to address this issue. They still believe their former African colonies will remain slaves to them. This is why I keep telling people of the coli to watch Nigeria. Nigeria is rising and with this rise our influence on the continent, especially west africa where the majority of Frances former colonies resides in is increasing. Nigeria has begun to pressure our neighboring African countries to amend their trade policies and instead focus on putting African interests at the forefront. Little by Little African nations are listening. The fact that african countries have come together to reject the proposed EU EPA agreement was a great show of strength. The Eu has then tried to set a deadline of october 1st 2014, saying if we dont accept it they will close their borders. Such foolishness on their part.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles...to-reject-european-economic-agreement/177403/





http://allafrica.com/stories/201405021539.html


Now back to france.
As I stated earlier France is Europe and the western worlds Achilles heel. Thier economy is especially tied to pillaging their former African colonies. When those former colonies rise up and stand for themselves it will lead to the destruction of Frances economy which in turn will drag the rest of Europe with them. Imagine this... If little old Greece could do this much damage to Europe how much more do you think France falling would do?

http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/jecm...olonial-tax-benefits-slavery-and-colonization









This is how France was able to shield themselves from the 2008 financial crisis

As you can see France is so dependent on keeping thier african countries in bondage for their survival. Nigerias economic rise and influence on the continent is threatening Frances very existence. Plus as we all know France being one one the biggest nations in europe, if it were to fall would pull the rest of the EU with it and that would have a great impact on america.


Now to make things worse the European people have begun to elect more right wing politicians who are very pro white, nationalist and anti immigration. This will undoubtedly have a negative impact on their relations with African countries. How will these right wing leaders be able to negotiate with African governments with all their unfriendly policies?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2014/06/04-europe-parliament-africa-songwe



again all this is NOT going to help with african relations. Again americas biggest achillies heel is not her growing debt or housing or finance bubbles e.t.c Their greatest threat is the shortsightedness, blindness, ignorance and stupidity of their European counterparts (especially France)
If I were the american government I would be looking to heavily diversify my global trading partners.

Just my 2 cents...

whoa

 

[Dreamestorical]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stratfor/2014/06/04/europes-deep-right-wing-logic/

It is undeniable that the right wing is ascendant in Europe. While leftist parties did well here and there in recent elections to the European Parliament, the story over recent years has been mainly about the right, symbolized most dramatically by the soaring popularity of Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France. But also in Denmark, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Serbia, the one commonality is the dynamism of nationalist-style political movements. Right-wing parties in France and Denmark got a quarter of the vote in late May’s elections, while the right in Austria got a fifth. Meanwhile, the Jobbik party in Hungary and Golden Dawn in Greece have garnered headlines the world over for their flamboyant neo-fascist views and popularity among significant swathes of the voting public.

While these numbers may not be enough to propel right-wing parties into executive power, they are, nevertheless, numbers that would have been unthinkable several years ago. While traditionally anti-immigrant, these parties have lately become in many cases pro-Russian. It is not that they like Russia per se; rather, it is that they see a kindred spirit in Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is a reactionary and Revanchist nationalist, embittered by the power balance of the Post Cold War, who thinks in terms of ethnic nations instead of post-national states. Like Putin’s Russia, they are especially fearful of Muslims in their midst. Thus Putin has become an avatar to right-wingers from France to Greece.

What is behind this phenomenon?

Years and decades of immigration from Muslim North African countries and other parts of the developing world have seemingly threatened previously cohesive and mono-ethnic societies in Europe. Then there is the half-decadelong economic crisis within the European Union that has led to low or negative growth and indecently high levels of unemployment. And that, in turn, has led to very unpopular austerity measures. The combination of these social and economic stresses has gone a long way to delegitimize the European establishment so that someone like Putin, who challenges that establishment and what it stands for, immediately becomes a pole of attraction.

The European establishment in Brussels also represents something else that these right-wing parties oppose, and that goes relatively little remarked upon: In a word, it represents the old historical left. I don’t mean the hard, Communist left. I mean the soft, traditional left. For the post-national European Union, organized as it has been for decades around the principle of the social welfare state — in turn supported by high taxes and meager defense budgets — is a left-wing or left-of-center historical project if ever there was one, at least in the world view of the right.

Certainly, the bureaucratic elite in the European Union capital of Brussels inculcates the attitudes of the traditional left much more than that of the traditional right. Unsurprisingly, you will find many members of the 1960s student protest movement among the older Eurocrats. Ironically, it was high American defense budgets throughout the Cold War years that allowed for Europe’s security umbrella against the Soviet Union, leaving Europe financially free to devote itself to the kinds of expensive domestic programs normally associated with the left. And because the prolonged economic crisis on the Continent is undermining the reputation of the European Union, that of the left is also being subtly undermined. It is telling that while the political right is ascendant in Europe now, the left (with striking exceptions such as Greece, of course) appears somewhat moribund as a romantic force. At a time of social and economic stress, the left just doesn’t inspire as much as the right does.

The allure of the old Western European Communist parties that had once dominated headlines in the 1960s and 1970s at the apex of the Cold War is now a thing of the remote past. The Cold War, remember, was close in time to World War II; in fact, it was a veritable tailpiece of it. That was an age when the right was delegitimized because of what Hitler and Mussolini had so recently done. But with World War II disappearing from view, and while a staid and squishy political establishment currently struggles to find a path through the economic crisis, the right looms dynamically as the left once did. In a sense, the rise of the right in Europe indicates that the effect of the Long European War, from 1914 to 1989, is finally over. There is no longer a taboo against neo-fascism. This is the great danger.

Mitigating this danger will be globalization itself in the form of new communications technologies, from air travel to smartphones, that while empowering sub-state groups — united in some cases by ethnicity — also empower new and more complex forms of identity not rooted in geography. This can mean that the ethnic right-wing nationalism currently afoot in Europe will be only a diluted version of the kind that gripped the Continent in the 1930s.

On the other hand, an aging European population with near zero birthrates coupled with a continuation of immigration from the less developed world will continue to stoke the kind of fear that empowers nationalistic parties united by ethnicity. Making it worse will be the prolongation of the economic crisis. After all, the Eurocracy in Brussels, as well as politically embattled regimes in the various capitals, will find it hard to make the dynamic adjustments necessary to return Europe to robust growth. For the European masses, the sense of security — political, social and economic — has been weakening on all fronts. And in such a circumstance, the left appears to have fewer answers than the right because the left cannot make an appeal based on atavistic emotion.

The rise of ethnic nationalism in Europe in the 1930s led to interstate war. The rise of ethnic nationalism in the early 21st century will almost certainly not. Instead, we will first see the creeping emergence of microstates such as Scotland and Catalonia. For a united Europe, however economically moribund, with power partially transferred to Brussels from national capitals, allows sub-state identities based on particular geographies to flourish. Second, we might see a form of paralysis within states themselves, as nationalist reactions to truly multicultural immigrant societies help undermine elected governments. Undermined governments with low defense outlays, emerging from decades in which national militaries have been delegitimized, do not go to war with other undermined governments.

Moreover, the Russian threat to Central and Eastern Europe will eventually be assuaged by Russia’s own economic and social problems. Nor will Russia dominate energy markets in the future as it does now. This will give Moscow less leverage over Poland, the Baltic states and so on.


In sum, the rise of the right is part of a narrative about the decline of Europe and its place in the world as more demographically and economically vibrant societies in the Greater Indian Ocean and elsewhere continue their rise. Just as the European left has had no solutions to the current crisis, neither will the nationalistic right. Places in relative decline often make headlines. That is the case with Europe now.

 

[Dreamestorical]

that will take a while to sink in... i didn't know nigeria was this much of a threat.

African countries are rising and the Europeans know it.
Did you know that the EPA deadline they set for October 1st 2014 was originally set for 2016. But a year ago, out of no where they pushed the deadline to 2014. This shows the EU is getting desperate. The good thing is Africans of today are not the same as Africans of even 20 years ago.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=309508

.” For most Ghanaians or those of African origins, the EPAs appear not only as neocolonial economic overreach but also geo-political strategy, designed to lure the African into colonial servitude.

Notwithstanding, on 16 April 2013, the European Parliament tempered its earlier final touchline of the beginning of 2016; by pushing forward the signing deadline, to 01 October 2014. This is raising many eyebrows particularly, in Ghana where not only homemade products are being propagated but also the Defence Industry, in Kumase, is about to be self-serving in the production of footwear and to the larger extent, generosity to other security outfits and needy school kids, thereby, breaking the traditional norm of relying on either the defence industries in the Great Britain or the Communist China. It is found [6] that EPAs are legally binding bilateral contracts between the EU and individual African countries which once signed, warrants that within a decade (10 years), about 80% of that country’s market should open to European goods and services, haunts.

And as i said earlier, African countries are not the same as 20 years ago. a lot of serious things are taking place on the continent. One of them is by january 1 2015 west african countries (ECOWAS) will remove all trade blocks between themselves and for the first time in history west african countries will be able to export good to each other without any tariffs and roadblocks. This is where nigeria intends to strengthen her foothold in west africa to the detriment of the french.

http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/2...as-common-external-tariff-to-kick-off-in-2015

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Common External Tariff (CET) will come into effect on the 1st of January 2015, Custom Specialist of ECOWAS Commission, Mr Felix Kwakye, has disclosed.

Mr Kwakye said, the ECOWAS Common External Tariff regime would ensure the free movement of all members of ECOWAS at the borders and to guarantee that duties were not paid on goods from neighboring countries.

He said it was in furtherance of this vision that the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government adopted the ECOWAS CET in 2006 as a vehicle for the achievement of a customs union and the creation of common market in West Africa and to make goods from ECOWAS countries cheaper and affordable.

He charged all countries in West Africa to come together to form one unit, warning that any country which was not part of the unit would be sanctioned accordingly.

He disclosed that several regulations had been put in place to ensure the smooth implementation of the CET so as to promote competitiveness and to provide protection to community industry.

He listed some of the benefits to be derived from CET as the accelerated process of regional integration, facilitation of the consolidation of the regional market and the facilitation of crucial linkages in the value chain.

Nigeria intends to dominate ecowas market

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/busin...inate-ecowas-market-for-non-oil-products.html

To redirect its trade and diversify non-oil exports to foreign countries, Nigeria is aiming to recapture the ECOWAS markets and penetrate the Francophone economies through the export of made in Nigeria goods.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news...igeria-will-stop-exporting-raw-materials-nepc

The Executive Director/ CEO, Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr Olusegun Awolowo has stated that Nigeria will stop exporting raw materials to other countries, saying the decision would increase the abilities of the Nigerian exporters to expand into the West African market.

“But when we stop exporting raw materials, and start processing, producing, manufacturing here (Nigeria) and we start taking it abroad, we would start a Nigeria brand based on qualities and we can dominate the ECOWAS countries,” he said.

http://www.africanmanager.com/site_eng/detail_article.php?art_id=21984

Ahead of the commencement of the Common External Tariff (CET) regime across West Africa in 2015, Nigerian manufacturers are strategising on how to consolidate on their penetration of the regional market.

The private BusinessDay newspaper reported Monday that the manufacturers are taking steps to check the increasing infiltration of the regional market by Asian and European exporters.

''We are making strategic plans to occupy the West African markets. In Cameroon, we are champions as China has no foothold there. We are in Ghana, Burkina Faso and other ECOWAS markets,'' the paper quoted an unnamed member of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria Export Group (MANEG) as saying,

Nigeria is also going to start to export cars

http://dailypost.ng/2014/05/29/made-nigeria-cars-ready-export-soon-jonathan/

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that the vision of his administration to revamp the capability of Nigeria’s automobile sector to export locally manufactured cars is near realisation.

Jonathan stated this at the 2014 Democracy Day celebration held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

Nigeria to export ceramic tiles

http://allafrica.com/stories/201406100244.html

Abuja - The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr Musa Sada, on Monday said Nigeria had concluded plans to begin the exportation of ceramic tiles to other countries.

The minister made this known in an interview in Abuja.

He said that Nigeria had hitherto abandoned the exploitation of the clay material that was being used for its production.

The minister said the country had the largest tile factories in West Africa, adding that it would begin the exportation of ceramic tiles just like it did with cement.

These are not the only goods Nigeria plans to export to ECOWAS countries. There are many other goods that are in the pipeline to begin export come 2015. Plus not only Nigeria, ghana has also been increasing her manufacturing base and intends to export to west african countries as well.




And to facilitate intra-african trade nexim (Nigerian export import bank) is going to float a massive shipping vessel that would be used to aid exports to nigerias west african neighbors

http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/ecowas-60m-shipping-project-takes-december-nexim-bank

The Managing Director, Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM), Roberts Orya, has said that arrangements have been concluded for ECOWAS to float a shipping concern that will serve the sub-region.

Orya said in Abuja on Wednesday that the company, “Sealink” Shipping Company, is to be established by ECOWAS at the cost of 60 million dollars.

He said the company, initiated by NEXIM, under Public-Private-Partnership, would own a vessel and was expected to begin operations in December or in January, 2015.

Orya said the shipping concern would be of immense benefit to Nigerian manufacturers and exporters as it would allow a structured access to markets in West and Central Africa.

“The project is aimed at boosting maritime trade among member countries of ECOWAS as well enhancing regional integration.

``We are looking at December, 2014 or January, 2015 to take off.

``The kind of ship that we are having is the one that will be able to carry both passengers and goods because people are used to trading with their own goods,” he said.

According to him, the Sealink venture will greatly reduce the period it takes to transport goods through the sea to neighbouring countries and drastically reduce the cost of doing business within the community.

``If you want to take goods to Ghana from Nigeria by road, it takes six days with a lot of hassles.

“But, if you want to move it by sea, it takes 60 days because you will use European vessels to take the goods to Europe first and then bring it back to Ghana,” Orya said.

He said that “with Sealink, it would take one day or two to freight goods from Nigeria to Ghana by sea using Sealink.

Nigerias government and a few african countries have also started passing regulations that are under mining european countries in the continent and are instead set to empower our indigenous companies. An example is Nigerias recent decision to change the grade of cement for constructing houses. The grade was changed to 52.5 and 42.5 from 32.5. Lafarge which is a french cemtn company makes 32.5 grade cement.
The truth of the matter is that 32.5 grade cement is okay to contrsuct houses. There is just some politics going on behind the scenes to undermine Lafarge. It basically shows african countries are finally learning about how to play the game. After all the EU does things like this to african products exported to their shores all the time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...de-rules-threaten-lafarge-profit-margins.html

Nigeria introduced new rules for the production and use of cement to lower the risk of building collapse, threatening local profit margins at the country’s biggest international producer Lafarge SA. (LG)

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria told manufacturers that only 52.5 grade cement may be used to build bridges and 42.5 grade for columns, slabs and molding of blocks, Lagos-based Dangote Cement Plc (DANGCEM) said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.

Lafarge, the world’s second-largest cement producer with operations in 64 nations, is adding capacity in countries such as Nigeria that need new infrastructure to support a fast-growing economy. The West African nation is the most populous in Africa with about 170 million people.

“The 32.5 grade of cement has never been proven by any empirical evidence to be the cause of building collapse in Nigeria,” Paris-based Lafarge said in an e-mailed statement. There are several impending court actions challenging SON’s claim, the company said.

Even the Nigerian governments recent fine of 11.5 Billion on shell show that Nigerias government has an ulterior motive. I supsect Jonathan is doing all he can to quicken shells divestment from Nigeria. And let me tell you something... the 11.5 billion dollar fine may not be final. It looks like NOSDRA initially imposed a 500 billion dollar fine on shell (I know insane) but they said they wanted to do more assessment. ( so its still not off the table) Plus Nigeria has not yet made it clear what the consequences will be if shell does not pay the fine. You have to rememebr 11.5 billion dollars is massive and lets not talk about the potential 500 billion. Again as you can see there are motives behind it.

http://www.ventures-africa.com/2014/02/shell-nigerian-unit-to-pay-11-5b-for-bonga-oil-spill/

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has demanded a payment of $11.5 billion (N1.84 trillion) from Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) as fine and compensation for the Bonga oil spill incident which happened in 2011.

NOSDRA which had initially imposed a fine of $500 billion dollars on the company as penalty stated that the compensation fees could not be initially imposed since the Post-Impact Assessment Report had not been studied.

“Compensation really derives after you have done a post-impact assessment,” NOSDRA Director-General, Peter Idabor said in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday

He however established that the assessment report was ready and recommendation on how much SNEPCO will pay as compensation fees will be made after it had been studied.

But Shell has reacted to this by saying there was no evidence to support the allegation that surrounding communities were affected

“Satellite and aerial images confirmed that the Bonga oil spill could not have reached coastlines in the eastern Niger Delta, as has been claimed,” SNEPCO’s Managing Director, Chike Onyejekwe said.

This leaves the question of whether Shell will comply with the imposed fine and what the consequences will be if they do not.

Overall as you can see Nigeria is really attempting to make big waves and if the EU is not careful they WILL be caught unawares.

 

[Dreamestorical]

that will take a while to sink in... i didn't know nigeria was this much of a threat.

Continued...

Plus as I stated earlier, the western worlds Achilles heel is the fact that European nations cannot seem to fathom that they can actually trade with africans as equals. Instead these fools keep thinking that Africa is a basket case and it can be kept in servitude. I love this quote that was left by Nigeria's minister of trade Aganga in regards to the proposed epa agreement.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-and-the-eu-west-africa-economic-agreement/176169/

This is not the 19th century, so it may not be possible for the EU to directly concoct phantom reasons to begin a military expedition against Nigeria for its decision not to endorse the EPA as did the British when the Benin Kingdom terminated trade relationship with its trade agents in the 1890s.
Also, If the EU is considering indirect economic sanctions against Nigeria as a way of punishing the country for daring to speak up against an agreement it is uncomfortable with, then the western giants should remember that one way to earn Africa's forgiveness and possibly gain its trust again is to allow the region have its own say without feeling bullied by the giants that may have impoverished it by its influence in past centuries.

Regardless I dont think the Europeans will ever listen. The fact that right now 30% of the EU's parliament are far right wingers who are pro white, racist and nationalist does not bode well for EU african interaction.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2014/06/04-europe-parliament-africa-songwe

On May 25, 2014, Europe experienced an unprecedented political pivot to the far right, as European Union countries elected their leaders for the next five years. Seven countries of the EU (what I will call the EU7) voted to send far-right parties to Brussels. In France, these parties received 25 percent of the national vote; Denmark, 23 percent; the U.K., 20 percent; Austria, 20 percent; Hungary, 15 percent; Finland, 13 percent; and Greece, 12 percent.[1] Thus, the far right collectively will hold over 30 percent of the seats in the new EU parliament.

Then lets not forget what is happening in our favorite country France...
This is why I say the french are idiots. Do they think that with the rise of openly racist leaders they will be able to retain control over their former colonies economies and their populace? they are unknowingly playing into Nigeria's hand.


http://www.jpost.com/International/The-rise-of-far-right-wing-parties-in-Europe-354345

"It is a bad day for the European Union when a party with such a racist, xenophobic and anti-Semite programme gets 24-25 percent of the vote in France," he said. "But these voters aren't extremists, they have lost trust, they have lost hope."

So again. The world is getting very interesting. Those who overlook africa rising do so at their own peril

Just my 2 cents...

 

[Techniec]

fema camps for all








Anti-American sentiments that you're sharing are beyond unrealistic to the point that they are corny.

What will the Canadian superpower be doing during all of this you stupid canuck @Poitier ?

Annexing north east USA

 

[TMNT4000]

@Dreamestorical thanks for dropping knowledge on the motherland.

That's why I said that Nigeria and the rest of African countries need to build up their military, because Europe might be desperate enough for a military invasion.