Minister
of Science and Technology, Ogbonaya Onu says Nigeria will start
manufacturing her own pencil within the next 2 years. Ogbonnaya said
this during a facility tour of Projects Development Institute (PRODA)
in Enugu State yesterday January 5th. He said the local manufacturing of
pencils will provide 400, 000 jobs for unemployed Nigerians
“It
is unthinkable that 55 years after independence, Nigeria is still not
producing pencils when we have the human and material resources in the
country. PRODA has to produce pencils for Nigeria and they have given me
the assurance that this can be done and that with pencil manufacture
here, we will be creating 400,000 new jobs. The (Muhammadu) Buhari
administration is committed to creating new jobs and growing our
economy,” he said.
248 comments:
1 – 200 of 248 Newer› Newest»BIG SHAME THIS MAN EVEN HAS THE MOUTH TO SAY THIS RUBBISH. WITH ALL THE TREES IN NAIJA, UNA NOR EVEN DEY PRODUCE PENCIL BEFORE. PDP GOVT REDUCED NAIJA TO SOLELY A CONSUMING NATION. SAD
Pencil? Not even a car? pencil.... Nigeria is damn still crawling. We not going anywhere
We shall see.
May Allah keep us alive.
#Hajia Mufliat
Linda as in PENCIL wen KG take dey write?
Praise the Lord, una try common pencil smh
So out of all our necessities,pencil is our priority? Na wa oooo
#JUSTPASSING
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I hear. hop no be pencil with no eraser at the top.
lol, am ashamed that the so called giant of Africa cant even produce pencil... Double your hustle
Okay na
Pencil ni oro wa tu kan bayii, issorai
#*karlishah*
hope you guys delivers on your promise
Y is nigeria back ward? Ordinary pencil? For who? Pls we r in d 21 century can we invent better things pleas?
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Am positive Nigeria can make d best pencils...our resources re far better....
After all we make d strongest wires
Lol abeg na wen we go start to dy produce eraser den
Lyk 4 yrs frm now
#Tslicky. @iam_slicky
Nonsense talk. Two years is a long time. On the next two years we will be talking about elections and nothing will be meaningful again. Apc you don't have plan for this government. Shajii! Shame!
wtf is this?? this is an insult ... pencil??chai u mean all this years and we havent manufactured our own pencil ... only God can help the black race
What don't we import?
For our mind now, lmao very funny.
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
Nigeria to start producing pencil. let me add toothpick, matches, and others.
Owk.
Chai, Ogbonnaya Onu, my one time able Biochemistry lecturer. How far now? Sir, we are in 2015. People still use pencils but a lot of work is moving towards computers. I know children will still use pencils to write so I am not worried about it in terms of value added - as long as the pencils are cheaper than imports and of comparable value. What I worry about is your prioritization scheme. Why pencils and not pens? Why not notebooks? Why not investment in another sector? Just checking Sir. Onwere ko di.
I saw it coming but wait oh, why 2years? so 400,000 unemployed would wait for 2years... regime don finish na
Hahahahahahahaha..gbom..u said my mind
waiting for the day
Oh.. Abasi!!! How d air we re breathing isn't imported too
#Bye
Shame catch me d day I heard abt dis,a whole pencil we can't produce hmmmmmm naija which way smh
so na common pencil we fit produce in this country.....lol......Nigeria has a long way to go .
Lol.. Naija dey fall my hand.
Pencil? Seriously? Leme sleep n wake up first, hopefully its a joke
this is embarrassing ..... ngwa bye
Hmmmmm, dis na big shame oooo... dee
Naija Muna too much.
Lol... 400k jobs dy say.. Lets watch and see..
Enugu's second shoe designer
Lmao
Naija Muna too much oooo.
And crayon too! Smh
Pencil of all things? lmao Nigeria is a joke.
Can u imagine My people?
What a shame! Nigeria is now planning on producing pencil now. Shame on Nigeria.
Enter your comment...u mean pencil is being import? We are shameless. Its guinness malt all d way
half bread is better than puff puff...pencil isn't much of a big deal,yes...but it will provide employment...good one from him.
#XENO-FABIAN
SHAME!!!
Y pencil nt even car or airplane wat xo special abt pencil manufacturing
Smh!It wil even stil take up to 2years again. This is pathetic.
Pencil kwa? Nawa o! God help this country biko! So all these pencil I see na imported?
I'm shocked to hear this.... This minister no get shame?
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See his shameless mouth.. To produce pencil in 2 years.. Bia Mr ogbonnaya Onu, this is the second year, in two years we will be preparing for another election. Do u think we will give u and your useless government another more years after your first four year? You must be high on cheap drugs. Nigerian don't have such patients to wait for you to start producing pencil in 2 years. You and PMB and they rest of you are going in 2019.🕷... So garrarrahere mehnn!!!
What a shame hmmmm #Abi#
Na wa o.... dis country sef
Stupid people! Which one is pencil? You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
Okbye.
Pencil @ dis tym of lyf wen people r thinking abt producing better tins? Isokay @ least it wud b 5 naira hopefully
Lol ... I thought I miss the spelling of the pencil or is it penicillin they want to spell?
Well, it is just one step at a time anyways. God bless 9ja
Good news. #IRepLIB
MUMU GO TO ABA IN ABIA STATE THEY HAVE BEEN PRODUCING PENCILS THERE
STUPID PROPAGANDIST.
THEY JUST DEY WAKE UP FROM SLUMBER.
TOLOTOLO MAN
CLUELESS GOVERNMENT.
What kind of stupid story is dis? All these old men age don dey enter their brains oh. Una wan begin produce pencil...make we clap for una abi? Chaii we don suffer. Not even to start today but in 2 years time.
-LIB PIKIN-
Rubbish...
why are people so like ''pencil??''....yes,pencil it is...it might not be something you want it to be but also look at the employments it will provide....
Abegi my government make una do anytin..even if una wan manufacture shit please do and reduce the rate of umeployment in our country..it's really getting alarming,
#XENO-FABIAN
We need actions not speeches...
Don't be surprised if they sell the stick and the black part differently.
Okbye.
Very shameful statement. Common pencil we dey import. Why not start the production now.
I have to read this twice I was just shaking my head throughout my reading naija na wa ooo
Mr minister, u and ur team are anachronous. Pencils are one of the products that will become obsolete like credit cards soon. People now use mechanical pencils not the traditional pencils. Pls we need more creative and innovative items like drones for agriculture, powered exoskeletons, brain-controlled computers, graphene supercapacitors, electrical storages etc.
See your mouth like pencil mtcheeew
Lwkmd! U mean to tell me that we import pencil? And it will take the next 2 years for us to start making pencils is supposed to be an achievement?mehn! Gbege!!!! Naija in trouble!!!
Pencil? Of all the stuffs to produce is pencil he is talking about
Pencil? Nigeria is going down the stairs
Its obvious our leaders lack wisdom and vision. its ridiculous at 55 someone is boasting that a whole 'giant of Africa' will start producing pencil in 2 years time, o ga o .
PENCIL Kwa among every other tin?? Ok oo am waiting..#CHANGE 2016#
Shoi.. Shoi..My big cousin Fayose will hear this.... Let's go Linda
Chineke! Pencil as in PENCIL? Okay! We are patiently waiting
Chineke! Pencil as in PENCIL? Okay! We are patiently waiting
with pencil production in the next two years , Nigeria can create 400,000 jobs, how are people working dangota?
.............do dis guys think we re stupid? ....pencil? tree and black charcoal....God have mercy on us....cus from whats dis otodos are saying , they purely have no clue on how to create the job,,,,,,,,
Did i see pencil?
Lolz. Big shame !
This is an embarrassment gaskiya!
Until then we will keep watching
A typical result for a country that rely so much on foreign imported products. We shld change our conscience and start patronizing made in Nigeria products b4 thinking of manufacturing more products in Nigeria. Even if we start producing pencil, pple will still value imported ones more than ours.
I am Coonett
Hahahaha
Nigeria oh
Nigeria oh
change has arrived
atleast we re producing sometin
Bico which pencil? Im really confused oh is it pencil as in d one i know. Awwww which way nigeria
PENCILS?? MINISTER!!!!!!!!!!! you open your big mouth and say pencil. how on earth can a minister of science and tech say this. when we have countries developing robots in the police force to go to war, when we have IT experts that are nigeria flying out of the country to be professionals in another mans land. pls Mr go and resign it obvious you have a block head and nothing good and developed can come out of you or your tenure.
U guys re surprised???
Like Seriously....
Donald hv said it b4 and people attacked him dat he is using abusive words on Africa as a whole
Buh de man said de truth dat we import common toothpick,lol...
Shame on dis stupid leaders of ours
Linda dont take note!
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# oneandonlynwa@gmail.com#
The minister shouldn't have announced this shameful crap. How can he even be proud to say the manufacturing will start in two years time? If under his watch manufacturing of pencil will start in two years, I wonder how long it will take to start manufacturing cars.
Nawaooooo
#needanalibitojoinmetastethenewgeishasardine
Shame don finish me here
Childish -Nigeria!!!
We pray d manufacturing of d pencils com to pass n nt jst lip service
cant help but wonder when will Nigeria ever be developed
chai! awuonamawuo. nu uwa nka!!! laugh no gree me hold. dis man is supposed to be castrated. lwkmd
Hmmmmmmmmmmm!SMH......pencil?
Pencil is lead, do we have lead?
Ewo. So we neva dey produce pencil? Criously? Wat ve we been producing? God bless Nigeria.
#LIB ADDICT#
So many things wrong in Nigeria...we import almost everythn
.....from Romans
Oh God,so my great naija still dey pecil level
May God help us all
#voiceofedobabe#
Ihere megbukwa Nigeria!!
Lol! Dis is a big shame bt I pray God wl tak us to d promise land.
I'm ashamed
Publish
As in the guy nor shame at all
My view not urs!!!!
Pencil? we should be proud about that right?? We just wanna start, well that's a start for #Change I guess
#LibGotMeUpAllNight
What a shame....ordinary pencil is imported...shame to the minister.....
Dis is not what Nigerians voted for. Pencil? why not crayons and temple maker
I tire o. This man should wake up please. We are in year 2016 not 1966. So the 400,000 unemployed youths would even have to wait another 2yrs to get employed. We are not crawling, we are moving backward
IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE? PENCIL? LMAO
At first I bn confuse,i kon dey wonder whether I nor knw wetin pencil be again? So no b us dey even produce 5naira pencil? Kai! Anya anago kwa
LIB ADDICT#just passing#
Two yrs, dat is shameful, whn we have alot of graphite deposite... Dont tell me that, that is some1 project in Geominning tech @ uniport.. Come we go show u how, if u provide d environment, is done in 5 months, sharp sharp...
JESUS..!!!! pencil???? I seriously don't believe this. So all those " made in China" I usually see in HB pencils, were actually made in China???
The irony is that a lot of you are ignorant or outrightly stupid.Mention one thing that your country produces? We even import toothpicks,which are ordinary Sharpened little sticks.You should be seeing the positives from hus statement than abusing him.Go check your ordinary HB pencil,it comes from China.This iniative will create jobs. STOP BEING CRITICAL OF EVERYTHING.it's sadistic.
is PENCIL a term for some scientific product?or does Ogbuefi mean PENCIL as in PENCIL HB pencil for primary school????this is disheartening!!!
Common pencil.. Oya Naija people clap for yourselves
I can't shout
not only pencil but toothpick and razor...angelmakiz@yahoo.com
I'm covering my face in shame. My dear country(giant of africa) jst start planning on producing pencil? Not even nw, till d nxt 2yrs. Oh Lord! Help us in dis country.
Hmmm pencil
Wht?
So common pencil's we don't produce. Wht a big shame to a country lik Nigeria dat is refer to as d giant of Africa.
@augustine muta yes!! Dat kinda pencil we used those days wey get pink eraser ontop...HB# 2B# 4B# lmao***
Yeah, fools paradise
Last time I checked tooth pick is been imported as wel
I tell u, Nigeria is a big joke . Pencil!!!! I thought those made in China I use to see those days was just a joke o. God help us
Hahahahahahaha, lol
People don't have shame at all, look at a minister came out to say this kind of rubbish without no shame, common pencil may God help that country, old fools that suppose to leave power for the youth and go back to their village..
This is the joke of a decade. Pencil? As in pencil when kindergarten pupils dey use write?!
Ordinary pencil na wa for naija
did you say shame! we import tooth pick pencil is big. God help my Country
I weep for my nation.. With new inventions springing forth daily, the only thing our beloved minister could come up with is pencil.. seriously??
Pencil? Is that what befits a nation of dis magnitude?
Pencil? Is that what befits a nation of dis magnitude?
As in do u mean e_pencil? Chai we are still in d 16th century
As in do u mean e_pencil? Chai we are still in d 16th century
Lolssssss...... itzwell
No mind the muntula, common pencil na him naija never fit produce agbaya
AJ MAIN BOY...
Wait...Nigeria doesn't produce common pencils??? Smh
What? in 2 years, not in 2 months. Na wa ooooo
D job opportunity tho, bt y pencil? God bless nigeria
My country my everything... Let's go Linda
WHAT IS PENCIL? WETIN HAPPEN WITH PENCIL OF ALL THINGS.
Wonder shall never end,common 10 naira pencil na him Nigeria no fit produce. hmmmmmmmm.....
Hian!
I no get talk.
Nigeria we start producing pencil in the next 2 years, what a shame to this country, I think they should sell this country to China for us to enjoy little before the world end, in two year pencil, what about aircraft, jet, ad many great tins,is going to take decade,
wondeful....
wondwerful....
Are u 4 real? So Nig imports ordinary Pencil #isorai#
Shit , lemme just do like I didn't read this news ,.. Nigeria is totally shameless
Are we moving forward or backwards lol
This is shameful
Why stay up to 2years just to produce pencils, meaning that we have to wait till 100 years to produce China phone or even China Phone charger.
De Practical Politicking Politician
This is unbelievable who cursed this nation called Nigeria. With all the abundant human and natural resources still lacking far far behind, I tire o.
If you feel shy, you can set up a company and start producing it.
Wild flowers!
AND WE CALL IT COUNTRY,,,WHAT A JOKE...ORDINARY PENCIL WHAT A SHAME...PLS LETS BE HONEST BLACKS CANT RULE A NATION..WE BLACKS GET QUESTION WHER WE GO ASK GOD ONE DAY WHY OUR OWN TOO BAD?NO BLACK COUNTRY IS DEVELOPED..CHECK ON INTERNET WE HAVE THE LOWEST IQ..GOD WHATS HAPPENING TO US???
Please of! I want to know if we have started producing toothpick that made us to graduate to pencil
Wow! This fool can't think of something better to start producing? Pencil? and people are here saying "common pencil we no fit produce" Guy KEEP YOUR PENCILS TO YOURSELF" We want more than a silly pencil you backwards fool. I swear old people in government is the #1 problem with Nigeria. A young person will not say this rubbish. What about making Cars , computers, nuclear energy sef?
Tamuno eeh! Nigeria to start producing pencils in 2 years? Chai, Chai! Chai,#weeps#
Haba pencil, Chaii not even okada or smartphone, our development is slower than the speed of a snail, Pdp no try atall.
Do you know that for the past years now, I never knew we aren't the one producing pencils? Funny. But let's not critizise this man for comming out plainly at this.
At least, we'll start somewhere.
That is to say we're rewriting our future. Progress is a process people. Nanotechnology, we'll get there
There is difference between can't produce and not producing. I think Nigeria can produce pencil just that it does not make economic sense.
Good start Dr. Onu. I know as a Uniport product you will surely make us proud.
Chtis
Pls if u have to contribute pls do sensibly or else no be by force to contribute... Abeg aw else is it going to be a priority.. .. To provide 400,000 job... So for u info job na neccesity to some.... Pshew
I don't even know wat to say all I can jst tink abt is "PENCILS"
Linda,plz tell him my research is almost complete.Will start production in d next 3months,by Gods grace.
Nig too dependent
Lol, until den
Lol, until den
Pencil? This guy is a joke
So d jobless youths wl wait for two years to get jobs nd start producing pencil.choi..poor man don suffer..before u know na their regime will finish,anoda election will start.i. Weep for my country
Biro nko? when we go start that one?
God help this country.Nigeria to start producing pencil!!!! Giant of Africa indeed
Key words: jobs/employment and economy
SMH! Well Philosophers would say that "Man know thy self". It was still in this country 2 years ago that oga Jona and his co travellers told us that they have started manufacturing cars in this obodo Nigeria. Now howfar? @ least the honourable minister in all fairness to him, did not tell us that in two yrs time we will start manufacturing robots. Enof of all dem big big talk. I blive now is d time to get it right.
Wait, what??? We don't even produce our own pencils?
Ha! Pencil is still made in China faaaaaa! Wake up Nigeria!!
Are you serious? We don't even make our own pencils ...shame
Nigeria is a slam,
This is a BIG DEAL for an HAUSA MAN,what this tell us about a minister of change is how President Buhari perceive Nigeria .Acient time thinking for the giant of AFRICA.
Am really surprised that we also import #10 pencil..which way Nigeria?
It's a shame though but Linda he visited proda last week not yesterday pls
Just passing
Chai! I weep for my beloved. Linda take note!
Why do have my doubts about this? How possible is it that the different shapes, sizes and kinds of pencils I find and have used are all imported... Pls Mr Onu make some research...
Why do have my doubts about this? How possible is it that the different shapes, sizes and kinds of pencils I find and have used are all imported... Pls Mr Onu make some research...
2yrs is fucking too much, wat hapnd to next week
Buhari pls increase nysc allawee
400,000 jobs. Manufacturers, retailers, sellers and exporters. I believe you .
even pencil too. we de import..ok na
I cry for this nation
I cry for Nigeria
I cry for this nation
Choi!!!what a shame!common pencil, and he"s was not even ashamed to say it...
Pencil !! Not a car?
Pencil !! Not a car? C how proud he looks. I'm ashamed
Hehehehehehehehehe ....so, we nor dey make pencil too.
So, we re goin to wait till 2 years b4 we ll start producing pencil?
And we have to wait for two years??? Why??
Shamful....
Funny. Penicillin nikan ko
Mr Minister How can pencil production provide 400000 jobs at a minimum wage of #18000. What's wrong with most our politicians disguised as leaders. Lord Have Mercy
Seriously dis country is wack, we import everything! Na wa o
Mazi Ogbonna, odi ka ina añuzi Omo...
Stupid fucking country
Now I know the problem of Nigerians.the youths. I say so cos it is obvious that they are school goers just as some ppl are church goers and not real Christians. These are the things we have elected to rule us. Shallow minded stupid old men who think they can get credit by discrediting others. Always hated ppl like this. Is he a fool yhat he will be talking of naija being able to produce pencils in 2 yrs? Buhari has the wrong ppl in the wrong ministries. Na dash dem dash this one the post. You have under grads in unn trying to out do themselves every year with their projects with wonderful innovations yet this he goat is talking of pencils. Have you ppl seen them pmb and Co? No imagination. He goats. Minister of pencil not science and technology. All the ghosts of great scientist will haunt this man and his family.
Pls tell them to start witb toothpick first .. Thats simpler than pencil
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