{"id":38416,"date":"2012-03-09T01:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T05:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=38416"},"modified":"2012-03-09T01:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T05:52:35","slug":"%e2%80%98no-cause-to-complain-of-poverty-in-nigeria%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=38416","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Cause To Complain Of Poverty In Nigeria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port Manager, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Port Harcourt, Mr. Oladele Alabi, says Nigerians have no cause to be complaining of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Alabi, who\u00a0 stated this on Friday in Port Harcourt at the AS+A Communications\u2019 Excellence said Award said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be talking of prosperity and wealth, not poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u00a0the country was blessed with vast arable land for all forms of agriculture, saying that many agricultural commodities being imported\u00a0could be produced locally for export.<\/p>\n<p>The manager said that plantain, banana and pineapple, among others, could be produced in several tons and exported and that such business venture would increase the nation\u2019s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)<\/p>\n<p>Alabi described the NPA as a gateway to the nation\u2019s economy as sea ports remained a blessing to the nation. He also\u00a0enumerated\u00a0the ports\u2019\u00a0importance both in human resources and to the economy.<\/p>\n<p>He said that although the port\u00a0had\u00a022,000 workers before 1999, it had scaled down to 4000 due to a\u00a0Federal Government policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port Manager, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Port Harcourt, Mr. Oladele Alabi, says Nigerians have no cause to be complaining of poverty. Mr. Alabi, who\u00a0 stated this on Friday in Port Harcourt at the AS+A Communications\u2019 Excellence said Award said. \u201cWe should be talking of prosperity and wealth, not poverty.\u201d According to him, \u00a0the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}