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FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013 00:00 BY TAIWO HASSAN


THE  Lagos State Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA), recently named the “Most Re-engineered-for- Service Agency in the Federation” for 2012, is set to break new grounds in vehicle administration in Nigeria with the introduction of a new user-friendly product and a state-of-the-art service.

The product is the Temporary Vehicle Tag (TVT) scheme whilst the state-of-the-art service is the One-Stop Centre for vehicle licensing and documentation in the state.

The MVAA One-Stop Centre is designed to provide all the services and products of the Agency from a single and highly efficient point.

At the Centre, which will run on e-commerce environment, a customer will be able to start and complete virtually all transactions relating to motor and driver products and services without leaving the building.

Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa, confirmed the impending launch of the One-Stop Centre during the ministry’s Ministerial Press Briefing held at the State Secretariat, Alausa last week.

The pioneer MVAA One-Stop Centre is located strategically within the Oshodi bus terminus hub for easy accessibility. It is the first of its type in Nigeria and the West African sub-region.

The MVAA plans to build a One-Stop Centre in each of the state’s five five Divisions.

The Centre will reduce the heavy customer traffic at MVAA’s 46 Vehicle Licensing, Driver’s License Centres and Rider’s Card Issuing Centres which are strategically located across the states. The centres will continue to dispense services to customers.

All MVAA partners in the service delivery chain such as Courteville Business Solutions (AUTO-NET products), designated Banks, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), the Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS), the Driver’s Institute and others, will have their offices located within the One-Stop Centre in a sequential arrangement which ensures that customers are able to move seamlessly through the various transaction stages.

The services will be dispensed from purpose-built cubicles in sequential order thus saving time and improving the efficiency of the process.

Customers and applicants will, for example, be able to obtain registration forms, complete the forms, make payments, undergo driving tests, have their data captured, renew their vehicle papers and undergo other screening requirements within the One-Stop Centre

According to the MVAA, well-trained personnel will ensure that customers are guided through their transactions from the screening of documents at the reception areas to the final point at every stage of the process.

MVAA’s products and services will remain available to ??Vehicle Licensing Stations, eleven Drivers’ Licence Centres, eight[8] Rider’s Card Issuing Centres and 18 Dealer’s Licence Zonal Offices as well as Independent Outlets and partner Banks (for renewal of vehicle/hackney licences).

Consistent with its pace-setting culture and exceptional competence in service delivery, the Lagos State MVAA is introducing the Temporary Vehicle Tag (TVT) to serve as a veritable and approved identification for vehicles pending their full registration. The concept will allow the capturing of the data of such vehicles on the state’s robust vehicle database thus guaranteeing that tagged vehicles can be tracked in the event of security challenges, including theft.

The introduction of the TVT derives essentially from the State Government’s  resolve to ease the pains of vehicle owners due to the delay they often experience in obtaining Customs papers necessary for full vehicle registration.

The Temporary Vehicle Tag (TVT) will be issued to applicants, sequel to the fulfillment of all approved registration conditions and requirements, EXCEPT the production of Custom Duty Card.

The TVT registration document carries a validity period of 30 days from the issuing date, in the first instance.

Permanent Secretary, LSMVAA, Mr Akin Hanson said of the TVT during an interview on the SERVICOM Customer Service Award to the Agency: “It is the practice in most developed and a few developing countries.

When a vehicle is purchased and before all the necessary documents are ready, it is the TVT that provides opportunity for the registration of such new vehicle to a certain level. With this arrangement, the items that may not be ready are the number plate and the vehicle licence.

You can buy your vehicle, obtain TVT while waiting for the Customs papers instead of leaving the car somewhere at the risk of being stolen. You can get insurance with the TVT for 30 days, renewable for another 30 days after which a renewal will lapse. A vehicle can be bought today and used for a wedding the next day. The TVT arrangement is backed by law.”

Mad Cow: Why would he build the refinery in Ondo State?! Does Ondo State have oil wells or does he intend to run pipes from Ondo to the South-South?!

naptu2: Choosing location of refinery = proximity to source of crude oil and proximity to market for petroleum products.

Ondo state has oil wells and is close to Lagos, which is the largest market for petroleum products in Nigeria.

Symphony007: When they arrive an realise how much tax they'll pay, in addition to their workers coming to work late due to traffic and that they have to provide their own electricity,water and everyother thing, no one will tell them to relocate.

Mavor: Am a Lagosian, but seriously, Lagos needs to be de-centralized industrially. What of Calabar and Uyo?

Sibrah: Na wah oh!
Somebody post a news report on NL and the next thing from you is ''Fashola has lost it''

Eko Ile: One thing I like about this idea and the new plants is the fact that they are totally sidestepping the National grid and distribution system upfront, they are not only targeted, they are laying their own underground power cable from scratch.

Next is Shomolu to get all the printers off diesel ...


Eko o ni baje o..

Garri the 1st: Bwahahaha.....

Dude didn't change at all!!

2013-05-22 23:00:42 [size=13pt]The Lagos State Government says it has built a 10.4megawatts Alausa Independent Power Plant to replace the 14 MW diesel generators used within the state secretariat.

The state Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Taofiq Tijani, said the IPP would be inaugurated in August, this year.

He stated this on Tuesday at a press briefing by the ministry to commemorate the 6th anniversary of Governor Babatunde Fashola's administration in Lagos.

The commissioner said the power plant would run on natural gas and would also serve the state secretariat and its environment.

Tijani noted that the inauguration of the power plant would be the third in the series after the state government had previously opened the 12.15 MW Akute Power Plant and 10 MW Island Power Plant serving the state water corporation's needs and Lagos Island street light, courts and hospitals respectively.

According to him, the Lagos Island Power Project will be expanded for distribution network to include additional Lagos State Government facilities, which is due to be completed in May 2013.

He stressed that the plant would also replace 25MW of diesel generators being used in the area.

The commissioner said the state electricity board had completed some street lighting projects while the ongoing ones would be concluded in 2013.

"Such public lighting projects include 25 streets within Lagos Island, Carter Bridge, Old Akute Road, Iju, Rasaq Balogun/ Adebola Street, Surulere, Olumegbon, Suenu and Onitolo Streets, Gbaja Street, Surulere, Eko Bridge, Bashorun, Aliko and Akanni Streets,Bariga," he said.

Tijani said the ministry had also embarked on energy audit programme with the goal of creating a comprehensive database of energy/power consumption within the state.

The objectives of the audit programme, according to him, are to educate and create awareness regarding energy usage, consumption patterns and conservation opportunities; to document existing conditions for planning purposes while giving information on health and safety issues with regards to pollution and carbon emissions from self generation; and to capture data on the amount and condition of public lighting on Lagos State streets.

The Commissioner added that the ministry had so far audited the energy in use at Somolu Printing community, Matori Industrial estate, Ilupeju Industrial estate, Ikorodu Industrial estate, Lagos Island (Broad Street & Marina), Ikeja GRA, Oba Akran, Agidingbi, Omole I & II, Dolphin Estate, Iporin, Gbagada, Lekki, Magodo I & II.[/size]

... a desperate President Goodluck Jonathan has gone for the jugular of the incumbent Chairman of the body and current governor of Rivers state,

Gbawe: Has anyone seen those GEJ worshippers? They seem to be avoiding this thread as if it will give them HIV.

malc619: Calling GEJ a dunce is actually an insult to the real dunces since he doesn't even measure up to that..

FILEBE: please o. abeg o. just a question o... before una chop me! what is the use of "that suspension" in that bridge when a pillar can easily be used as it was used before someone suggested a to waste money on "suspending" something? like i said... na harmless question o. just answer me harmlessly too

awodman: Hamzat categorically clarified that there was no
problem, though explained that people “may not see
the physical work at all for now. A bridge is not what we
can jump in there and start to build. Then, we will be
able to commence full work. But internally, a lot have
been going on. The preliminary work has actually
started.”

I hope you all accept the same excuse when FG says the same on similar projects like the 2nd Niger Bridge.....
GOOD ONE LAGOS STATE

CFCfan: Finally, the project has taken off! This 4th Mainland bridge will definitely be crucial in the effort to ease traffic congestion in the Lagos metropolis; and on completion, will be the longest bridge in Africa.

scipher: Rushing to buy land in IKD

[size=15pt] Fashola: Litigations, technical issues  delay  delivery of roads  
   
By Gboyega Akinsanmi

The Lagos State Government has finally started a preliminary work on the Fourth Mainland Bridge.

The 26-kilometre infrastructure would be designed to link Ikorodu to the state’s economic hub in Eti-Osa Local Government Area.
The state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, disclosed this in an interview with THISDAY, saying there was no problem on the development of the project contrary to speculations that it had been abandoned.

Hamzat, who once served as the state Commissioner for Science and Technology, explained why full work had not commenced on the proposed bridge linking it to a good number of buildings, which he said, would be affected if the old alignment was the state’s preferred option for the right of way.

He explained that the old alignment “is becoming a bit cumbersome because of the number of buildings on the right of way. It might be extremely destructive if we want to follow the old alignment. We might probably need to destroy a lot of good buildings. This option is not fanciful to us. So, we have to look at another right of way.”

He, therefore, acknowledged that consultants “are working on the new right of way. We will look at the cost-benefit analysis of the alignment that will be cost-effective. We are considering if it is better to pay compensation than going through another alignment. The experts are already working on it, and the report will come out soon.”

Hamzat categorically clarified that there was no problem, though explained that people “may not see the physical work at all for now. A bridge is not what we can jump in there and start to build. Then, we will be able to commence full work. But internally, a lot have been going on. The preliminary work has actually started.”

The commissioner, however, declined to give timeline for the completion of the project, citing different issues, which he said, needed to be resolved before the state government could commence work on the bridge in full scale.

He explained the need to meet all the stakeholders and people whose buildings would be affected in order to discuss the issues of compensation and resolve other issues that might lead to litigation while developing the infrastructure.

At this instance, the commissioner said it might be difficult “to determine. That is the truth of the matter. If there are 50 buildings on the right of way, we have to determine their cost. We also need to talk to people that will be affected.

“The fact that the state wants to pay compensation does not mean somebody will not go to court. So, we need to engage internally without people knowing what is happening. We need to know the owners of the buildings. We need to talk to them and arrive at a conclusion. So, it depends on how responsive the people are,” he said.

Meanwhile, the State Governor Babatunde Fashola, at the weekend, threw more light on the reasons behind seeming delays in some road projects across the state, saying they are much more complex, sophisticated and with people issues involved.
Fielding questions from senior journalists at an interactive session in Lagos, Fashola said some of the roads being built in the mainland areas of the state needed piling and other underground work before surfacing while others were facing problems of lack of urban planning, community resistance and court actions.

The governor explained that what was going on with  the Lagos-Badagry Expressway expansion project was that the road was awarded to two contractors, Messrs Julius Berger, which is doing the 10 lane road and Messrs China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) which is handling the light rail section of the road, adding that because of the piling work which CCECC has to complete before the road is filled, Julius Berger had to step aside until the piling is finished.

On the other inner city roads in various parts of the state, Fashola said some of the delays came from the owners of land on which the roads pass, some of who went to court to stop government from acquiring their land while others protested and fought contractors on site.

“The work we are doing now is much more people issue because we are now engaged in holding a lot of meetings with communities and people and explaining to them to allow us build the roads. The alternative is that all our projects can hang up in courts and I will be the last person to defy court injunction,” the governor said. [/size]