₦airaland Forum

SarkinYarki:
This is not how things work... People advertise where there is crowd ....Let lai Mohammed improve our league and get NIGERIANS to fill up stadium and see if Guinness will not advertise

sarrki:
Rare picture of bola Ahmed tinubu

Happy birthday jagaban of borgu

onuman:
Mass education is key to human and economic development.
An educated population is easier to govern.

Let them use the money being stolen by politicians to establish education institutions all over the place for the youths to get tertiary education. With time, the standard in the tertiary education institutions shall improve.
Even at that, the students who truly entered university to get knowledge do study on their own, and often measure up with others who studied in universities with best standard.

Islie:
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Drinokrane:
Senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on public affairs Ajuri Ngelale on Friday welcomed his third son in Abuja, Igbere TV reports.

Mr Ngelale announced this via Twitter, adding that mother and baby were fine.



https://twitter.com/AjuriNgelale/status/1375544483429949446?s=20

Ngelale worked as a television presenter and senior news correspondent at Channels Television before his presidential appointment.

The Rivers State indigene is a graduate of political science and history from the University of Kansas, US.

Zzor:
Good one,I think the old entertainers should all get such,they deserve it.

Reeses:
I think it is true about this they are really out to detroy Nigeria through Buhari.

Doraty1:
https://twitter.com/yemialadee/status/1374268591240065024?s=19[/quote]Well said, Yemi Alade!!

Penguin2:
Uzodimma is very vindictive

Anigreat:







Says a palmwine drunk of a woman, a thief that has stolen billions already. They should first of all start with her.

I don't even know what give this failures the guts to say whatever they wish to say shamelessly.


It really surprised them to see that upon the hardship this evil government has brought on the people, the people are still excelling in their different ventures, they're living fine.

Nigerians are really hardworking people, majority of them earned their money legitimately kudos to them! unlike this thief of a woman who is out to steal national treasury. Assuming Nigerians waited for this useless evil government O.Y.O would've been their case.

MIKOLOWISKA:
it dies every 12hrs o and na night you need am pass

sonsomegrigbo:
Oyo State alone is bigger than the whole SOUTHEAST!

Are you high!?















IGBO BECAREFUL!

catfrog10:
Siting refinery close to residential areas and the city mainland, I don't know the kind of greed will let officials to allow that to happen. As one smart Omulabi stated " Fulani will use it to poison us. They don't need to fight war or attack physically, just release the poisonous gas into the air small small and we will start dropping from cancer." You think they are siting this investment in Lagos because they love you? Fulani want access to SW seaports in the event of breakup, as it's the only region closest to them.

uptimum123:
Kunle Afolayan Shares Photos Of His Train Ride From Lagos - Ibadan


There's also speculation that some parts of his coming movies will shot on this Lagos - Ibadan Train


https://mobile.twitter.com/kunleafolayan/status/1373175424382087168

shadrach77:
Stupidity is when you think development is having an airport in your state/city/town but failing to realise that economic and infrastructural development coupled with good security are the factors that will people to your state/country

What's the point of having an airport which will be hardly used. Just another white elephant project

Omoboricash:
Nine Reasons Why Refineries’ Rehabilitation Is Justified

By Adewole Kehinde
Mail Express Online
Saturday, 20 March 2021

It is no longer news that the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, 17th March, 2021 approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company Ltd.
Unfortunately, some personalities like Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Gov Nyesom Wike, Activist Aisha Yesufu, Senator Dino Melaye, and Former Gov Peter Obi among others are opposing the rehabilitation/contract award. 
Below are the nine reasons why refineries’ rehabilitation is justified

1. AFTER YEARS OF NEGLECT, THE PLANTS NEED TO BE BACK

Nigeria’s three refineries in Warri, Kaduna and Port Harcourt with a combined capacity of 445,000b/d capacity were established to ensure energy security for the country. Unfortunately, these refineries have suffered years of neglect due to delays in conducting mandatory Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) that has resulted in performance decline over the past two decades and they have all been shut down to allow proper diagnosis and rehabilitation.

Of these refineries, the most strategic is the Port-Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) with a capacity of 210,000 b/d and can produce 10.4 million liters of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) per day. This refinery had its last TAM in the year 2000 (21 years ago).

It is gladdening therefore to see that there is finally a move on the part of government to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt refinery and restore all the numerous advantages that operating the refinery will bring to the Country. This rehabilitation, unlike TAM (which should normally be carried out every two years but was neglected for many years), will involve comprehensive repairs of the plant with significant replacement of critical equipment to ensure the plant integrity is maintained for a minimum of ten years.

2.  REHABILITATION VS BUILDING NEW REFINERIES: WHAT ECONOMICS?

Some critics have said that it is more economical to build a new refinery than “just waste US$1.5bn” to rehabilitate the PHRC, which holds 210,000bpd out of Nigeria’s 445,000bpd refining capacity. On the contrary, a cursory look at brand new refineries built across the world will reveal the following:

US$10bn was budgeted for building Aramco Oil Refinery (250,000-300,000 bpd) in Pakistan

US$12bn was budgeted for building Abrue Lima Project (230,000) in Brazil

US$27bn was budgeted for building Pengerang Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development, RAPID (300,000 b/d + 3 mtpa) naptha steam cracker) in Indonesia.

Closer home, US$19bn was budgeted for building Dangote Refinery (650,000bpd) in Nigeria.

3.  THE LENDER IS SMART, THE CONTRACTOR REPUTABLE

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is the reliable lender that has agreed to raise up to $1billion towards the rehabilitation project. In the same vein, Government will raise the sum of US$550m. A credible and capable lender like Afreximbank would never agree to put such huge amount of money where there will be no value.

Similarly, Tecnimont SpA, representative of the Original Refinery Builder (ORB) which is one of the top ten global Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) Contractor in refineries, is globally reputable and capable, with requisite experience of similar jobs across the globe.

4.  STRATEGIC ASSETS ARE NEVER FOR SALE

Despite the abundance of hydrocarbon resources, Nigeria is, sadly, the only oil gas producer in the world that does not refine petroleum products. Instead, the country relies heavily on importation for most of its PMS needs locally. This is not a good record to be proud of.

Armchair critics also come up with a shallow argument that it is better to sell off these refineries since they can no longer meet up the nation’s refining needs. Which country sells off its strategic national assets, such as the refineries, to the highest bidder? Who sells off their refinery when even countries who don’t produce a drop of hydrocarbon still go ahead and build refineries?

5.  THE END OF ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’

Armchair critics usually think a mere mention of rehabilitation means another round of “business as usual”, where resources are drained with nothing to show for it at the end of the day. While some of these arguments are justifiable, it is instructive to note that this rehabilitation is different because interested parties who benefit from the age-long importation largesse (and who fleece the nation dry) will potentially be out of business by the time the rehabilitation is completed.

This is the same for critics who see nothing good in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. These detractors probably forgot that this was an administration which, from its inception, made clear its intention to bring back the refineries to their optimal capacities. The Buhari Presidency also threw its full weight and support behind the NNPC and gave the Corporation a free hand to execute the project without any interference in the contracting processes.

6. THE BENEFITS ARE ENORMOUS…AND ENDLESS

There are quite a number of benefits in bringing the nation’s refineries back on stream. From satisfying local energy demand, growing the nation’s GDP, to strengthening the Naira by reducing the demand for Forex to creating thousands of jobs across the value chain (crude supply, operating and maintaining the refinery, product supply etc) including several third-party contractors that will supply outsourced services or goods, the advantages are huge.

The refined products also serve as feedstock for small scale local manufacturing. The most significant and visible benefit is energy security for the country. Imagine if COVID-19 lockdown became global and Nigeria couldn’t import, it would have been a disaster as there was no capacity to refine crude in-country and as such, there would have been no products at all. That will be a true definition of disaster!

7. IT’S OPERATE & MAINTAIN (O&M) MODEL

Having learnt from the experiences of previous models, NNPC is now adopting the Operate & Maintain (O&M) Model as a strategy in the execution of the rehabilitation project, which is also one of the key lender requirements. With the O&M Strategy, the Contractor is expected to:

• Be a single point of responsibility for managing operations, maintenance and technical services within the refinery’s battery limit

• Be a credible, proven refinery operator with preferably FCC experience

• Operate and maintain the refinery efficiently to generate sufficient margins to pay back the debt

• Be Able to manage local and specialized sub-contractors

• Retain current NNPC staff, and actively support employee development to prepare for the transfer of the refinery management back to NNPC (timeline to be defined)

• NNPC will retain 100% of refinery ownership (e.g. no JV structure etc.)

• NNPC does not expect significant capital projects (e.g. upgrades, de-bottlenecking etc) during the O&M contract phase.

• NNPC’s structure and mandates outside of the refinery’s battery limits will not be impacted by the O&M strategy (e.g. PPMC).

8. THE CURIOUS CASE OF SHELL’S MARTINEZ REFINERY ‘SALE’

It is strange to hear people come up with the curious case of Shell’s sale of its Martinez Refinery in California to PBF Holding for $1.2bn “while NNPC is only rehabilitating PHRC for $1.5bn.” Perhaps, what people failed to understand is that Martinez Refinery is 105years old (built in 1916). The refinery had a major fire incident in September 1989 and it is having regulatory challenge with the Californian authorities. The relatively high cost of doing business in California, coupled with challenges with adherence to the State’s environmental regulations were factors in Shell’s decision to sell (https://www.ktvu.com/news/after-105-years-martinez-refinery-no-longer-owned-by-shell).

Also, as part of the condition of the sale agreement, Shell and PBF previously entered into a market-based crude oil supply and product off-take agreements to continue supplying Shell-branded businesses and ensuring that Shell customers continue having access to Shell-branded fields (See https://www.ogj.com/refining-processing/article/14092900/shell-finalizes-sale-of-martinez-refinery).

In a nutshell therefore, what happened between Shell and PBF was just a Management agreement packaged as a sale to manage and protect Shell’s image, hence, it can never be a fair comparison with the cost of rehabilitating an NNPC refinery or even building a new one. Putting up such argument as a defence looks like a well-choreographed attempt by groups who feel that the refineries coming on stream will not only throw them out of business, but will also threaten their long-term interests.

9.  FINALLY, AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT APPROACH THIS TIME AROUND 

Unlike what is obtained in the past, the current refineries rehabilitation project is different for the following reasons:

a. It consists of a governance structure that includes key independent external stakeholders: Ministry of Finance, NEITI, ICRC, PENGASSAN and NUPENG. 

b.        Unlike the regular TAM, this rehabilitation will involve comprehensive repairs of the plant with significant replacement of critical equipment to ensure that the plant’s integrity is maintained for a minimum of ten years.

c.         It is funded through part-loan and part-government, with the financiers actively monitoring the execution of the project.

d.        KBR and NETCO are acting as NNPC Engineers who will be supervising the EPC contract to ensure that the project is delivered on schedule, within budget and at the right quality.

KingOvo:
https://dailytrust.com/snakes-wild-lizards-rodents-take-over-tinapa?fbclid=IwAR0EZ-P5-LrgdYrPObsgCOtG-Vr5C_TQMvWn0ZOdKCCmMgfs6e7YdwZEB6s

Profayo:
The guy needs confidence, he has a very strong left foot

Gilbertase:
purely private sector driven, which birthed competition. Feelers suggest Nigeria is waiting for Dangote and Bua, but somehow arent expecting him to replicate his MO as he has done with cement, for example. I see it as blind optimism. But Ok, we shall see what happens. All the economic permutations of rice import vs production r still very fresh. All can see how that turned out. Time will tell na, as always.

As per the bolded, an administration that failed to do anything verifiable about this with TSA, repatriated loots? all manner of taxes, levies, duties, foreign and domestic loans will suddenly do this cos they increase fuel to 500? When they have new photocopiers, new computers, new offices to remodel, new cars, new eating utensils, and other uncountable inanities that absolutely have to be bought every year? Bro pls.

Godarz:
Okay, fuel prices goes up to N500 per liter today....

1.Profits get made

2.Refienrey licencess promptly get working on their refinereis to take advatage of the profits being made, In 20 years we have ten big refienreis and more modular refienres, and lotsa jobs.

3.As a result of increased production from the new refienreis, we end up being a major exporter of fuel

4.And we end up with more jobs

5.Plus prices of fuel drop to N200 and below in five years time...because competiton.

6.Government saves money and invests in railway transport to reduce costs of transporitng fuel. NNPC now privatised has profits to invest in extending its pipelines, and as a result transport cost of fuel goes down..reducing prices.


In 2001, a sim cost N10000, by 2005 that sim was down to N1000....because the GSM people were allowed to make the profits needed to build this new IT backbone we have. Why not for fuel?

Don't be too pessimistic. We wasted N4 trillion between 2010 to 15...4 trillion that could have gone to the masses .....because of keeping fuel at N97 to N87.

IfGodbeforus:
Wonderful!!So over 100 humans beings were ferried through this hole .Political leaders, let us stop these arrangee kidnap and nonsense.

Godarz:
And the problem with subsidizing fuel is that in order to keep prices low, we have spent a lot of our revenue and gotten into debt which rebounds on the same masses.

Subsidizing fuel has also meant not enough cash to keep refineries running, plus who wants to come and invest in refineries in a country where you are not sure of making a profit because government subsidizes fuel?..meaning prices are too low to make a profit at the end.

Nigeria also does not have a high enough tax to gdp ratio to run a welfare state.(Canada subsides fuel, and they also have a high tax to gdp ratio of 33% compared to our 6.1%..and even then fuel costs N400 per liter in Canada...). Instead we rely on oil income which isn't enough for all of us even on a good price of $130 per barrel.

iwaeda:
https://dailypost.ng/2021/03/12/fuel-price-nigerian-system-believes-in-suffering-the-masses-ben-bruce/?



https://mobile.twitter.com/benmurraybruce/status/1370277177510486017

Thomthom:
What Nigeria government can not do... An individual did it.... Does it mean that our leaders does not have any plans before coming into government?

Tonymegabush1:
Honestly Honestly

The inflation dey control nigeria mrkts one will.begin to wonder if at all we are implementing the right economic policy.

As of today 12/03/2021

On PmS:
Almost all fuel station In my vicinity is closed the few one that are open I don't know how much they are selling.

On cement:
Cement is 3100 for dangote, BUA is 3500 etc.. don't they want us to work? How can a builder afford such

If cement is N3.1k, then it has come down na. I recall a huge thread a few weeks ago where people were arguing about cement cost and then people were quoting N4.7k as the price.

On Capital tools:
The price you meet in the mrkt might change after few minutes each time you enter mrkt you will start hearing let me consult my (new price list) am still wondering.

On feeding:
Food stuff once fuel is affected everything follows suit..


There is a big prblm in this country even the blind man can see it.


NB.. don't say let's endure and pray to God. Let me ask all the countries that are progressing which one of them does Nigerians holy pass.

Commotfornigeri:
Well, my phone bill is $35. unlimited calls, unlimited text +5GB data.

Home internet is $50. Unlimited and 150mbps.

No cable. I use IPTV service and stream any channel i want to watch.

When i see people list all that stuff, I just wonder sha.