African countries should add value to commodities before exporting – Obasanjo
By CNBC Africa
25 July 2016 |
9:30 am
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said that African countries could achieve industrialisation by focusing their efforts on locally available commodities and by developing local entrepreneurs and industrialists.
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I WISH THIS UGLY GENERAL WOULD JUST CLOSE HIS STINKING MOUTH. HE COMES UP EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT NOTHING WHILE TOO TIMID TO SAY SOMETHING RELEVANT LIKE BOOHARY’S APPOINTMENT AND THE AGITATION FOR THE RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA. APPARENTLY GENERAL THADE (PLANET OF THE APES) IS ONLY BRAVE WHEN HE HAS THE NIGERIA ARMED FORCES BEHIND HIM BUT TURNS TO JELLY WHEN OUT OF OFFICE DUE TO TOO MANY SKELETONS IN HIS CUPBOARD. GEJ DIDN’T DO HALF OF WHAT THIS IDIOT MALLAM PRESIDENT IS DOING WHEN THE ORANGUTAN OF OTTA WAS CRYING BLUE MURDER. NOW HE IS SCARED SHITLESS OF ILLITERATE ABOKI PRESIDENT.
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