I can authoritatively inform you that those things ARE in fact being produced. The reason you're not seeing them on the local market is that they are almost exclusively being exported, mostly to Asia and other African countries.
I can't say more than this because I'm not speaking for Dangote and I'm sure he has the capacity to defend himself against a predatory government, but none of what you are witnessing is normal or accidental.
Nigeria is currently being subjected to outrageous levels of internal sabotage by people who don't answer to Nigerians. Your government has the biggest single tool for industrialisation ever built in Nigeria since the Ajaokuta steel mill, and just like during the Babangida era, you have a CIA asset as president who is under instructions to completely sabotage and filibuster the thing to hell.
The only difference now is that instead of being completely at the mercy of the state, this one is controlled by a worldly-wise billionaire who is fighting a secret global war to keep it functioning.
Whenever you people realise that your poverty is ENTIRELY artificial and that with the industrial capacity that ALREADY exists in your country, you should be clearing AT LEAST $5,000 per capita GDP, you will finally see the world through my eyes.
People will physically die that day.
@NaijaFlyingDr Now you people are getting it. The Nigeria environment is limiting a lot of talents and intelligent people. A political environment of a nation is the catalyst that brings to life all other resources in the nation
From my vast experience in dealing with my estate people I'm aware that:
1. Nigerians prefer chaos, even when their words suggest differently.
2. We will put competence under far greater scrutiny than mediocrity, and then choose mediocrity because we think we can control it.
I left the UK and returned to Nigeria to start my career in March 2013. Most of the Nigerian international students I went to uni with had already returned since 2012.
Nearly all of us who came back started planning to escape from Nigeria in 2016. There was only one thing that changed in Nigeria between 2013 and 2016. We know what or who it was.
But yeah, "GEJ was a terrible president." If you keep repeating it to yourself 9 years later, despite being mocked by all the data in existence, that will somehow make it true 👍🏿
Me, I don't care who has any investment in maintaining this gigantic untruth because none of you feeds me, and I will speak freely - "GEJ must go" was a foreign intelligence operation run out of Washington DC by the US State Department, whose doctrine interpreted Nigeria's economic growth and growing partnership with China as a strategic threat to American economic and military interests on the continent.
The Obama administration repeatedly interfered very directly and blatantly in that election cycle. Barack Obama recorded and posted a video urging Nigerians to "vote for the next chapter." Michelle Obama involved herself in #BringBackOurGirls, which was itself merely the 'Big Idea' within the larger marketing campaign that was "Jonathan must go." John Kerry travelled to Nigeria and met with the opposition.
The local players on the ground who took part in the marketing and political campaign to oust Goodluck Jonathan and replace him with the Illiterate were merely useful idiots - yes, that includes you reading this with your guilty conscience. If the shoe fits, I am definitely referring to you. You were nothing but a pawn in a geopolitical tussle between 2 of the Countries That Actually Matter.
Because you lack wisdom, insight and especially humility, you really thought you were doing something historic by removing an incumbent president - a trick you have not been able to repeat ever since, because the US State Department - which actually runs Nigeria - had no problem with 8 years of The Illiterate, and definitely has no problem with another 8 years of the Drug Dealer whom it actively protects.
You idiots thought that you were empowered, politically awakened people, when you were just chess pieces on a board being pushed around by forces you were too stupid and egotistical to recognise. Now your GDP has effectively HALVED in just 9 years, and a whole generation of high-quality human capital has been lost to the US and its allies.
And they didn't bring back your girls!
Stupid fucks.
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Nigeria is not poor. It irritates me when I hear it. Nigeria has poor people but rich and very inefficient markets with gatekeepers. What will bring more prosperity and reduce inequality is building more efficient organizations at scale to replace opportunistic gatekeepers.