passyhansome:
Coal Mchewwwww thought it was oil

hmuhammad:
if it was oil, you won't believe. The north is blessed with mineral resources. From Nickel to gold to tin to crude oil, so stop hating

EternalTruths:


So when is the country breaking up

HVACSpecialist:
My brethren, kindly read on the value of the beverage and chocolate industries in the world.Kindly read up the total amount of cocoa exported from africa in 2015, cost of value addition and the market value of the final products.U II WEEP FOR AFRICA

ijustdey:





Kb


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/sokoto-discovers-coal-commercial-quantity/

djbobby007:
igbo will nt like dis news, they will be like wat abt coal in enugun

HVACSpecialist:
Good feat! But it is disheartening when we celebrate discovery of crude resources that the chinese or west ll still come in to extract.we need to invest more in intellectual capabilities of our youths.APPLE inc is richer than 90% of african countries

kelvinreality:

Another source of energy to Nigeria in this period of continuous damage from Niger delta region. Please, let this resources be used judiciously to solve the power problem in Nigeria.

Nigeria is a developing country and of such they will be lot of construction in terms of building and the likes. These buildings won't be build from ordinary sand but with the mixture of cement which is gotten from coal. Apart from bye product from the use of coal, I pray this government will not allow the continoous monopoly of natural resources to a particular firm in the building industry who has access to resources such as coal.

I pray the discovery of coal in the north helps to reduce the price of Cement and builds competition in this sector.

dvee2:
Coal is no longer an economically viable source of energy. there is tons of commercial quantity coal deposits discovered in Kogi state for decades, no one is looking at them.

KevinDein:
Oh no
This won't go down well with peeps from a certain region.

HVACSpecialist:
My brethren, kindly read on the value of the beverage and chocolate industries in the world.Kindly read up the total amount of cocoa exported from africa in 2015, cost of value addition and the market value of the final products.U II WEEP FOR AFRICA

Opakan2:
Coal is useless now.. it his high carbon emission so no market anywhere for it

EternalTruths:


Can they now secede in order for us to breath fresh air

Or better still accept full Resource Control

gamaliel9:
On coal, the governor said that the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN), otherwise known as Sokoto Cement and owned by the BUA Group, has started using the mineral as a source of energy in operating its plant

BUA will use coal sourced from Sokoto to fuel the 40MW power plant being constructed at the factory


Is CCNN different from Sokoto Cement? Is Sokoto Cement different from Bua? "has started" "will use"

obailala:
Bro, we must learn to walk first before we think of joining others to fly. As it stands presently, Nigeria isn't even crawling. Even in the next 50 years, coal is still going to be relevant for world energy despite the current global campaign against it.

Another very important point is that even with a hundred massive coal plants in Nigeria, the environmental emissions will not be up to 0.01% of the emissions we get daily from the over 15 million generating sets that presently light up the country.

hmuhammad:
if it was oil, you won't believe. The north is blessed with mineral resources. From Nickel to gold to tin to crude oil, so stop hating

BeClever:



Your foolishness started by typing the 'I' in Igbo with a small letter and ended with adding 'n' in Enugu. Your cure would be as difficult as HIV drugs research..

Coal is old school, no sane society uses it any longer.. but I doubt u and Sokoto state governor's sanity.

GoroTango:
You are not concerned about the environment but rather you are obsessed with downplaying positive news coming out from a region you love to hate. We know y'all guys so dont think you can fool us with all this your talk about global warming protocols and shyte. Coal is the single Most used source of electricity in all industrialized nations. Your opposition to it's use in this case is based on hate

nature2abdul:

It is not 'intellectual capabilities' we are lacking, but political environment.Nigeria have intellectuals in all fields of endeavor all over the world.
Imagine that the diversification focus of this government is mainly in the North West and East. Coal that has been a major mineral in the Eastern part of Nigeria and even in Kogi state is now been celebrated as diversification goal of the FG.
The only solution to our problems is restructuring!

teemanbastos:
how we dey utilise Enugu own sf?

KevinDein:
Oh no

This won't go down well with peeps from a certain region.

obailala:
Bro, we must learn to walk first before we think of joining others to fly. As it stands presently, Nigeria isn't even crawling. Even in the next 50 years, coal is still going to be relevant for world energy despite the current global campaign against it.

Another very important point is that even with a hundred massive coal plants in Nigeria, the environmental emissions will not be up to 0.01% of the emissions we get daily from the over 15 million generating sets that presently light up the country.

nature2abdul:

Coal has been discovered in Kogi State for decades. It is only that maybe the Northern leaders does not see Kogi as a core Norther State - hence their lackadaisical approach in the exploration of the resources there. Even oil that is now been celebrated in Borno is available in Ibaji local government area of Kogi State and also in Bida local government area of Niger State for decades.

kelvinreality:


Really?
If what you posted is real then I must say there is form of dichotomy between the north on crucial issue? Why won't they regard kogi as a core northern state? Is it because of cultural reasons or your perceived imagination?

If at all the coal in kogi has not been given much attention, the issue should not be blame on the northerners rather the government of kogi state should be criticise for lack of publicity. Had it been you did not post this I won't be aware.

On a serious note, even the awareness of kogi state is not needed. Nigeria as a country is not interested in other resources like coal apart from oil and of such this has affected the interest of the north and other region in the development of other resources.