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 .CLICK LINK TO CONTINUE...http://frankjay..nl/2016/01/nigeria-to-start-producing-pencil-in-2.html?m=0

Hope they'll start producing toothpicks as well because we have the human and material resources in the country.

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Like seriously? So even with all the trees we get for 9ja, we never produce pencil before? This is bad.....really bad

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Like seriously? So even with all the trees we get for 9ja, we never produce pencil before? This is bad.....really bad