Now that Nigeria just discovered lithium and rare earth deposits in Kaduna and Abuja worth an estimated $2 trillion.
Maybe, just maybe, Elon Musk will start smiling at Nigeria now.
Tesla needs lithium. We have lithium. So here is what I want as part of any deal that gets signed. We don’t just want extraction contracts that ship our wealth out raw while we get crumbs.
I want a Tesla manufacturing centre built right here in Nigeria. To be precise Bwari, Abuja close to the factory Wike brought to bwari.
Give us the processing plants. Give us the jobs. Give us the technology transfer. Let Nigerians be the ones turning raw lithium into batteries and vehicles, not just digging it out of the ground for someone else to profit from three times over.
We have made this mistake with oil for sixty years. Dig it raw, ship it out, buy it back refined at ten times the price. I refuse to watch us repeat that with lithium while calling it a win.
Elon, if you are reading this, Nigeria has the resource. Bring the factory. Build with us, not just from us.
Arsenal won the league and rival fans are calling us “Local Champions”
Same league they were praying to God and begging the other 19 teams not to allow us win
That saying “Everyone becomes stupid when it’s Arsenal” is now making more sense