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Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has said that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is being kept on a Nigerian naval warship far off the coast of Bayelsa.

Fani-Kayode made this known in a post on his Tweeter handle on Monday, saying that ‘intelligence reports suggest that my friend and brother Nnamdi Kanu is being kept on a Nigerian naval warship far off the coast of Bayelsa and that Buhari intends to keep him there until 2019 and then drop him in the Atantic ocean after “winning” the February election…

Know this: the incarceration,torture and murder of Nnamdi Kanu will not go unavenged or unpunished.The God of Justice will serve His judgement on all those involved in this sinister, gruesome and homicidal initiative. Buhari will soon know that God rules in the affairs of men.

Kasy08133625633:
Onitsha is now more or less a mega city; the has grown beyond the original Onitsha North & South. Today, Onitsha metropolis includes: Ogbaru, Ogidi, Idemmili, Ogbunike, Nsugbe, Obosi, Oba, Nkwelle etc. The city has kept expanding and expanding because it represents to the SE what Lagos and PH represent to the SW and SS.

ON JUNE 5, 2018

By Michael Eboh

…Nigeria to increase gas supply to West Africa

The Federal Government, Tueday, disclosed that more gas resources are currently being discovered offshore Lagos and also stated that the discoveries, along with the return of peace to the Niger Delta, would boost the country’s gas supply to the West Africa Gas Pipeline Project.

Speaking at the West African Gas Pipeline Project’s Committee of Ministers’ Meeting in Abuja, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, said Nigeria, along with the partner countries had nurtured the WAGP project and are looking at further addressing the challenges that had hindered the achievement of their set targets.

Kachikwu maintained that Nigeria will continue to play her part in seeing that all the partners work together with the aspirations of the project to achieve a greater integration of the West African region.

He said, “The WAGP Project is being celebrated all over Africa today as the flagship project for the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Therefore, this project should be sustained with our cooperation from all parties.

“On the part of Nigeria, I am pleased to be able to welcome you all at a point when the Niger Delta is stable and gas supply from Nigeria is becoming more assured and also when more gas resources are being discovered offshore Lagos, which could present more option of gas supply to the West African Gas Pipeline Project.”

Also speaking, Managing Director of West African Gas Pipeline Company, WAGPCo, Mr. Walter Perez, declared that though significant improvement had been recorded over the years in the company, the collective efforts of the committee are still required to attain the promise for further regional integration.

He noted that irrespective of the fact that Force Majeure was yet to be lifted, WAGPCo had been able to upgrade its compressor which led to a growth in its output from 70 million British thermal unit, BTU, per day, to 85 million BTU per day in 2018.

He said, “However, the situation has significantly improved as a result of work completed by WAPCo in 2018 to upgrade our compressor station in Nigeria to operate at reduced pressures. As a result of this, we have been able to demonstrate the capability to transport over 85 million BTU per day.

“In addition, this upgrade has allowed us to be more consistent in delivering gas to our customers despite variations in pressure at Itoki. With the imminent completion of critical infrastructure projects in Nigeria, it is our hope and prayer that Force Majeure (FM) will be lifted or the Foundation value chain contracts restructured so that it will no longer be necessary to operate on a best endeavors basis.”

He announced that Ghana had paid a significant portion of its legacy debt to WAGPCo and additional payments are currently being made.

“I am happy to report that additional payments are currently in process. However, more work is needed to retire the debt. To this end, we are encouraged by the assurances given by the Ministry that the legacy debt will be fully retired in 2018,” he explained.

Commenting on the Western Interconnection Project, he highlighted plans to use WAGP to enable gas to flow from Western offshore Ghana to the primary load center for power generation at Tema.

According to him, over the last couple of months, engineering works and related procurement activities had progressed, leading to the execution of a Construction Management Agreement with Eni, which would see the construction commencing at Tema and Takoradi imminently. He said,

“Our industry is complex, dynamic, and evolving. It is a business in which we must be minded to have a long term view of success, tempered by near term realities. This is why WAGPCo is currently working with WAGPA to redefine the tariff structure for the WAGP.

“This is expected to promote increased utilization and diversification of both supply and off-take. Doing so will also enable gas from the WAGP to remain the fuel of choice in the West African sub-region.

“l believe deeply in the distinctive mission of the WAGP project and WAPCO’s role in the sub-region. I also believe that the future of the WAGP lies in trusting that all partners will commit to their fair share of responsibility to effectively carry forward the objectives and the strategies that will make this ECOWAS dream a reality.”

aribisala0:
Also speaking on the ban, Acting Commissioner for Transportation, Prince Anofiu Elegushi assured that the space at Ojota Park was more than enough to accommodate the inter-state transporters currently operating from Jibowu and Yaba axis.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/

inter-state-buses-ojota-park-ready-receive-relocated-operators-nurtw/While justifying the ban, Elegushi said: “There are two basic reasons for the ban. One, it has to do with the transport policy of removing inter-state vehicles from Lagos metropolis and taking them a little bit to the outskirt of Lagos so that buses with other colours will not come into the State and run intra-city transport. “We are already constructing modern inter-state bus terminal at Ojodu Berger and we are planning to construct more in Epe, Badagry and other areas, and also properly plan our roads. “Secondly, the ban has to do with the Master Plan of the State and there is no provision in the plan for such operation in Jibowu and Yaba axis. Most of the buildings the inter-state operators are using were formerly residential and we know the effect of their operation on the traffic and public infrastructure in the axis. If you look at the big buses, they don’t have enough clearance that will accommodate their turning radius and that is the reason for the damage on the public infrastructure,” the Commissioner explained.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/inter-state-buses-ojota-park-ready-receive-relocated-operators-nurtw/

LastSurvivor11:
It has to do with igbos and suddenly you all become intelligent and rational..
So what's happened to the land they already bought as their private parks?
Where was government when they were developing it?
Did you hear where it was mentioned that they are using government land or did you see where it was said that lagos government build a park for them and they refused to relocate..
You might not be a bus owner but I believe what goes around comes around in our own ways..

IkpuNnegiEwu44:
How did he provide them with alternative? Is there any vacant space in Ojota that the Governor gave them? Fear God

hush15:
Why are you guys unlearned... isn't there a difference between Local Council Development Area and Local Government Area? Even when allocations are shared, they are shared amongst 20 LGAs and not 57 LCDA. Thus, it is when it gets to Lagos that everything is reshuffled and that's why a state cant allow LGA Autonomy because of the godfatherism involved.

Lagos is allowed to have LCDAs but that's the responsibility of the state, not Federal.