The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel has signed an agreement for the citing of a multi-billion fertilizer plant in his State.

Governor Emmanuel was part of a Nigerian delegation led by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, that visited Morocco to set out the next steps of the $1.4 Billion fertilizer production plant project launched in June 2018.

The agreement between the OCP Africa, the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority and the Akwa Ibom State Government will birth one of the biggest investments in the fertilizer production industry worldwide.

The signing ceremony took place at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UMP6).

Gov. Udom Emmanuel signing the contract agreement in Morocco. | www.brandspurng.com

Mr. Emmanuel signed one of the agreements of the partnership, which covers a memorandum of understanding between OCP Africa, the Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria and the NSIA on land acquisition, administrative facilitation, and common agricultural development projects in the Akwa Ibom State.

Speaking while signing the agreement, Governor Emmanuel said, “Our state is receptive to investments and we are prepared to offer the necessary support to make the project a reality.

“With a site that is suitably located to enable operational logistics and an abundance of gas resources, all that is left is for the parties to accelerate the project development process”, Mr. Udom said.

The agreement reached between the Nigerian Government and the OCP further links OCP, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), the NNPC, the Gas Aggregation Company Nigeria (GACN), and the NSIA.

The two partners agreed to strengthen further their solid partnership leveraging Nigerian gas and Moroccan phosphate.

This project will lead to a multipurpose industrial platform in Nigeria, which will use Nigerian gas and Moroccan phosphate to produce 750,000 tons of ammonia and 1 million tons of phosphate fertilizers annually by 2025.

The visit of the Nigerian delegation to Morocco takes place within the frame of the partnership sealed between OCP Group and the Nigerian Government to support and develop Nigeria’s agriculture industry.

Following the success of the first phase of Nigeria‘s Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) and the progress of the fertilizer production plant project launched in 2018 by OCP and NSIA, the Moroccan phosphates group and the Nigerian government delegation have agreed on the next steps of their joint project which is rapidly taking shape.

Several cooperation agreements were inked on Tuesday at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) by OCP Africa and the Nigerian delegation. Through these deals, OCP reaffirms its unwavering support of agricultural development initiatives in Nigeria including PFI.

OCP Africa and the NSIA have agreed, inter alia, to set up a joint venture which will oversee the development of the industrial platform that will produce ammonia and fertilizers in Nigeria.

The OCP has also pledged to supply Nigerian famers with quality fertilizers adapted to the needs of their soil at competitive prices and produced locally.

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Let us be your plug for all your deliveries within Lagos
We promise to give you the best at affordable price
A trial will convince you

Good move

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Will most likely end up as another white elephant project..

Governor Udom ado eti owo

Yak Abasi Ibom Odiong Udom Nnyin

The fertilizer should be used for the benefit of the southern part of Nigeria.
The government will give them our crude oil funds and free fertilizer.
Then they will feel like they own Nigeria

commendable

Nice one. Abokees make una park well. Food boku for south too.

For sometime now, Akwa Ibom has been in the news for good reasons. I wish other states could emulate this.

Delta State which way Okowa na your mate be dis O! No single investment don enter Delta since, no single capital project na only to appoint cultists you sabi

I wish if all southern state have a mega agricultural program that will stimulate food production within the southern region. This is a good moves

Morocco and Nigeria na 5&6

God bless my state. The land that flows with milk and honey

tutudesz:
Delta State which way Okowa na your mate be dis O! No single investment don enter Delta since, no single capital project na only to appoint cultists you sabi

okowa is coming

Uyi168:
...Will most likely end up as another white elephant project..

There’s the usual Nigerian spirit...
Fortunately, the NSIA doesn’t do white elephant projects.
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DeZoro:
I wish if all southern state have a mega agricultural program that will stimulate food production within the southern region. This is a good moves

the end product is going to morroco

Governor Emmanuel Udom has carry out more projects than the federal government....



like for Udom, share for Buhari...

baralatie:

okowa is coming

Okowa no know anything aside substandard projects, no single employment opportunity in the state.

Wow

Embezzle things

God bless Akwa-Ibom State.

God bless Nigeria.

Akwa Ibom is indeed the future of Nigeria developmental strides.
Udom may God bless you for this n others .

This is going to be nothing more than a white elephant project.

Akpabio did his with the Ibom deep seaport

rodeo0070:


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Its all good but AKSG should make sure that OCP does not poison Akwa Ibom indegenes with its plant.

The Moroccan state-owned company OCP is polluting the air with its fertiliser factories, thereby harming the health of its employees and of the local population. According to a new report by Bread for all, SWISSAID and Catholic Lenten Fund at least eleven Swiss commodity traders have a commercial relationship with OCP which means they are implicated in human rights violations and environmental pollution in Morocco. This underlines the urgency of the Responsible Business Initiative that will be at issue once again in the National Council next week.

https://breadforall.ch/swiss-fertiliser-traders-implicated-in-human-rights-violations-in-morocco/

9jaRealist:


There’s the usual Nigerian spirit...
Fortunately, the NSIA doesn’t do white elephant projects.
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exactly

Plant that costs more than the burg khalifa in Dubai.

It is obviously with honest intentions to lift the state and country economically that drives the governor to go search for these business partnerships, but for the love of God i wonder if our governors in Naija do critical thinking, research and surveys before they undertake some projects.

What is the need for fertilizer production in Always Ibom? There are a couple of more viable projects that we have started and not been able to kick off production and stabilize. The oil palm, the port. I can't forget the tragic waste of Library, Tropicana Hotel, Hospital at Itam(biggest tragedy) etc. Let him put all the effort to bring those lost projects to life.

We are in a country were fertilizer production is dominated by the Omnipotent Dangote group, and Indorama in PORT HARCOURT, there is no chance that Akwa Ibom would just walk in and see a ready market to sell in commercial quantity in a corrupt country were such large scale business is regulated by the inept federal government.
Even if our facility is the best, the government would never be fair, and there would be major roadblocks facing it. Smh

I wish all southern state will emulate this or even do more...

But Delta worst Sha make I nor just talk go there

Have you seen the one Dangote is building in Lekki Free Zone?

Come and see.

It has not been easy there.