Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said the Federal Government was targeting 2019 to end fuel importation in the country.


Kachikwu disclosed this when he was speaking at an interactive session on removal of fuel subsidy organised by Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), in Lagos.

“For the first time, I am putting so much strength in terms of what do we do with our refineries, because that ultimately is the solution.

“I must make the refineries work so that the staff can justify their work.

“I am going around looking for investors to come in a joint venture basis to put in money into the refineries and make them work.

“I can authoritatively say to you that given the constraints that we face, the plan is that by December 2018 we should have reduced our importation of petroleum product by 60 per cent.

“This is because we would have brought enough money to get our refineries working to the tune of about 90 per cent,” the minister said.

According to him, for the first time in 10 years, the three refineries are working but at less than 40 per cent capacity.

He said by the time the refineries were working at optimal capacity and the commencement of production by Dangote Refinery in 2019, Nigeria would be able to refine 1.4 million barrels per day.

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/05/fuel-importation-will-end-in-2019.html

cc: lalasticlala mynd44

na so una dey talk...we will or we will soon, we don tire for dose talk joor.

Story. ..then 2019, it will be shifted to 2023... keep on with lies. We have become used to it

2019 election campaign has kicked off already.You can only confuse the gullible minds.

And buhari's government will end in 2019.

Kaii this man is Lia Mohammed's twin brother from another mother. Telling lies is what they are known for

Oga Kachikwu the installed capacity of all 4 refineries in Nigeria is 445000 bpd, Dangote refinery is 650000 bpd. This gives a total of 1095000 bpd if all the refineries are running at 100%. How did you arrive at the 1.4 million bpd. Abi na the new refineries way una no even start go make up the remaining 305000 bpd.

I have watched this man and his stint in petroleum ministry and I dare say he is highly incompetent. He is worst petroleum minister on planet earth.

if you like take style campaign well well. no body go look ur side for 2019

naija247:
Oga Kachikwu the installed capacity of all 4 refineries in Nigeria is 445000 bpd, Dangote refinery is 650000 bpd. This gives a total of 1095000 bpd if all the refineries are running at 100%. How did you arrive at the 1.4 million bpd. Abi na the new refineries way una no even start go make up the remaining 305000 bpd.

these buhari n his men lie with IMPUNITY.

Ruling governments deceiving Nigerians since 1999. First, it started with vision 2010. It later moved to vision 2015. The latest is now vision 2020.

This Month marks President Muhammadu Buhari’s first
official Year at his desk, as he complete one year in office after inauguration rites last year.

And since he’s reeled out a litany of plans for a new
Nigeria, starting from the electioneering period, it is time
to deliver on the first year in office promises,


Writes THISDAY Politics Desk

1. Public declaration of assets and liabilities

2. State and community policing

3. Ban on all government officials from seeking medical
care abroad

4. Implementation of the National Gender Policy, including
35% of appointive positions for women

5. Revival of Ajaokuta steel company

6. Generation, transmission and distribution of at least
20,000 MW of electricity within four years and increasing
to 50,000 MW with a view to achieving 24/7 uninterrupted
power supply within 10 years.

7. Empowerment scheme to employ 740,000 graduates
across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

8. Establishment of a free-tuition and scholarship scheme
for pupils who have shown exceptional aptitude in science
subjects at O/Levels to study ICT-related courses

9. 720,000 jobs by the 36 states in the federation per
annum (20,000 per state)

10. Three million Jobs per year

11. To embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and
skills acquisition schemes for graduates along with the
creation of a Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme to
create at least 5 million new jobs by 2019.

15. Creation of a Social Welfare Programme of at least
Five Thousand Naira (N5000) that will cater for the 25
million poorest and most vulnerable citizens upon the
demonstration of children’s enrollment in school and
evidence of immunisation to help promote family stability

16. Recruitment and training of at least 100,000 officers
into the Nigerian police force and establish a Federal Anti-
terrorism Agency.

17. One free meal (to include fruits) daily, for public
primary school pupils

18. Building an airport in Ekiti State

19. Eradication of state of origin, replacing that with state
of residence to ensure Nigerians are Nigerians first before
anything else.

25. Permanent peace in the Niger Delta and other conflict
prone areas such as Plateau, Taraba, Bauchi, Borno and
Abia.

26. No plans to Islamise Nigeria.

27. Nationwide sanitation plans to keep Nigeria clean

28. Preserving the independence of the Central Bank

29. Simplifying immigration process to foster faster visa
processing at points of entry.

30. Special incentives to facilitate the education of the girl
child

31. Full implementation of the National Identification
Scheme to generate the relevant data.

32. Making Information Technology, Manufacturing,
Agriculture and Entertainment key drivers of our economy

33. Balancing the economy across regions by the creation
of six new Regional Economic Development Agencies
(REDAs) to act as champions of sub-regional
competitiveness

34. Putting in place a N300bn regional growth fund
(average of N50bn in each geo-political region) to be
managed by the REDAs.

36. Reviving and reactivating the minimally performing
Refineries to optimum capacity

37. Creating additional middle-class of at least two million
new home owners in the first year in government and one
million annually thereafter.

38. Creating an additional middle class of at least four
million new home owners by 2019 by enacting national
mortgage single digit interest rates for purchase of owner
occupier houses as well as reviewing the collateral
qualification to make funding for home ownership easier,
with 15 to 30 year mortgage terms.

39. Enacting a national mortgage system that will lend at
single digit interest rates for purchase of owner occupier
houses.

40. Injecting extra N30bn into the Agricultural sector to
create more agro-allied jobs by way of loans at nominal
interest rates for capital

42. Creating a national infrastructural development bank to
provide loans at nominal interest rates exclusively for this
sector.

43. Construction of 3,000km of Superhighway including
service trunks

44. Building of up to 4,800km of modern railway lines –
one third to be completed by 2019

45. At least one functioning airport is available in each of
the 36 states.

46. Ending gas flaring and ensuring sales of at least half
of gas produce, within Nigeria

47. Speedily passing the much-delayed Petroleum Industry
Bill (PIB) and ensuring that local content issues are fully
addressed.

48. Establishing at least six new universities of science
and technology with satellite campuses in various states.

49. Establishing six centres of excellence to address the
needs of special education

50. Prioritising the reduction of the infant mortality rate by
2019 to 3%

51. Reducing maternal mortality by more than 70%

52. Reducing HIV/AIDs infection rate by 50% and other
infectious diseases by 75%

53. Improving life expectancy by additional 10 years on
average.

54. Increasing the number of physicians from 19 per 1000
population to 50 per 1000

55. Increasing national health expenditure per person per
annum to about N50,000 (from less than N10,000
currently)

56. Increasing the quality of all federal government-owned
hospitals to world class standard within five years

81. Free education at primary, secondary and tertiary
institutions for Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM) and Education.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/time-to-walk-the-
talk/210866/

APC don't have a manifesto and they are misleading Nigerians, when a government don't have a concrete manifesto to work with it definitely crash land. a presidential administrative and its political partly needs a manifesto to work with. a manifesto is allowed to have a plan A, B, C and even D. with a working manifesto the bright future can easily be predicted.

but what we have experience in the past one year even a prophet of doom can easily predict doom & failure for this administration. my worried is that its already too late and if it can be corrected which I doubt.

but before going into much details let look at the memory line. what PDP said during the election

Feb 15 2015,


APC's Manifesto, Unrealistic And Full Of Deceit - PDP.


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the
manifesto of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as
unrealistic, saying it is meant to deceive and misdirect the
electorates.

According to the ruling party, the opposition’s promise to
pay N5, 000 monthly stipend each to 25 million poor
Nigerians would amount to N125 billion monthly and N1.5
trillion every year. At a press conference in Abuja on
Wednesday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP,
Chief Olisa Metuh, said this cannot be achieved, given the
poor state of the nation’s economy and dwindling oil
revenue.“What is baffling is that the APC knows fully well
that this is not only unrealistic but also impracticable in a
nation with an estimated budget of N4.69 trillion
comprising recurrent and capital expenditures yet they
continue to dish it out to unsuspecting citizens in a clear
bid to mislead.

“Since its formation about two years ago, the APC has
introduced and sustained an unfortunate political streak
sustained majorly by lies, character assassination, false
alarm, wild allegations, and lately visual simulation, all in
the desperation to deceive and misdirect the judgment of
the electorates.

“We have with us an opposition party, which has been
deploying all manner of schemes to derail and compromise
the electoral process. Today, if the APC is not instigating
violence or threatening democracy and our very existence
as a nation, the party is busy procuring criminal hi-tech to
hack into INEC’s data-base or clone the Permanent Voters
Card (PVC).

“The next day, the same party would connive with some
unscrupulous electoral officers to deny non-indigenes in
some selected States their PVCs while busy making bogus
promises to the electorates,” Metuh said.The PDP also
faulted what it described as the opposition’s promise to
create 740, 000 direct jobs in each of the 36 states of the
federation and the Federal Capital Territory within one
year, with one million jobs for Igbo youths within the same
period.

Continuing, Metuh said: “The APC has also promised to
provide free education, daily free meals for millions of
Nigerian school children, free tertiary education, free
health care and free houses to Nigerians. The opposition
knows too well that this is unrealistic yet they prefer to
brandish falsehood.
.

“The APC should explain to Nigerians how they would
fulfill their promises with the prevailing 40 per cent drop in
national income and dwindling oil price in the international
market. “
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/apcs-manifesto-
unrealistic-pdp/

www.nairaland.com/2167407/apcs-manifesto-unrealistic-full-deceit

then falling of oil price started before this administration so it's very clear they only drag power from PDP without any insensitive to work with current falling of oil price. the blame game for Previous administration have to stop

Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2019 election year gimmick is out. Grab your copy!

bubu needs second tenure badly o...........
see gimmick
well nigerians do what they so wish
biaf.................ans like me dont care
hopefully by then i should be through with my chinese program and ready to join my fellow country men in the march against the zoo

This man has started campaign already!

Campaigning for 2019 already?