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The same nyamuri flat.heads that were questioning the clout and influence of the "45 parties that passed vote of confidence on INEC chairman", will be the same ones that will rejoice at this news

Bleeping chest-beaters, they are only good at shifting goal post!!

All of them followed nyamuri flat.head advice.. they ended their careers like the Biafra civil war

Nope, its not correct.. what he said is that CCECC "might" build another one in Rivers State, so it's not part of the initial agreement

festacman:
The Lion of Ubima seems to have worked hard to keep his 'beer bump' down. Otherwise, that smart suit and his tummy would have been engaging in hostilities.

Meanwhile, congrats to Bubu. Next Level things.

By the way, I thought the agreement with China was to build two Universities of Transportation in Nigeria. One in Daura Katsina and the other in Ubima Rivers State. Does anybody know if this information is correct?

Biafra civil war survivors won't like thid

The Director of Rail Services of the Federal Ministry of Transportation Engr Mohammed Babakobi on Monday said Daura was picked for the sitting of University because of the several rail initiatives coming up along the area.

According to him, there will be a rail siding running from Kano to Kaduna which would pass through Katsina and the international rail route that will run from Katsina to Jibia in Niger Republic.

He said the university will take off in 2021, and is expected to run a full gamut of specialised training especially in the rail system and on and modes of transportation. According to him, the Ministry is already working with the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission to develop a robust academic curriculum will address the development of capacity in rail systems which has suffered the most neglect.

https://thenationonlineng.net/why-we-picked-daura-for-university-of-transportation/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Located on the banks of River Niger, in Mokwa, Niger State is the Sunti Golden Sugar Estate (SGSE) a 17,000 hectares of arable farmland and a Sugar mill with a capacity to process 4,500 metric tons of sugarcane per day, and potentially up to 1 million tons of cane per season.

The sugar estate is owned by the Golden Sugar Company, a subsidiary of Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN) Plc and was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018, as part of efforts by the government and private sector
to encourage self-reliance in food production and local sourcing of raw materials.

Fmn principal business activities

Flour Mills of Nigeria was established in 1960, from a single Flour Mill in the port of Apapa. Today, the company is a publicly-traded, vertically integrated supply chain of food, agro-allied and logistics and support businesses.

Having pioneered flour milling in Nigeria with its 500 metric tonnes per day wheat mill commissioned at Apapa in 1962, the business has now diversified into foods, agro-allied, logistics & support, and sugar.

The FMN Group’s mantra, “Feeding the Nation, every day,” is at the heart of the company’s strategic decisions on what they produce, how and where factories are set up, the level of care that is put into products, and how they interact with host communities and the wider environment.

Nigeria’s journey towards self-sufficiency in sugar production

The Nigerian Sugar Development Council, NSDC estimates that imported sugar accounted for 97 percent of the total sugar supply in the decade before 2012. Specifically, Nigeria between 2002and 2005 heavily relied on foreign sources for 11.3 million metric tons of sugar which cost up to $3.4 billion and an estimated 4,000 local jobs for the skilled and semi-skilled labour force in that period.

Date from the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) estimates that N30 billion every year has been spent on sugar importation over the last decade.

The need to revamp the stagnant domestic sugar industry and ensure food security whilst building a good foundation for local manufacturing sector, saving the nation scarce forex, contributing to the availability of jobs and
economic growth informed the creation of the Nigerian Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) which was approved by the Federal Executive Council in September of 2012 and the implementation of which commenced in January 2013.

In other words, the sugar master plan served to raise local production of sugar to attain self-sufficiency; To stem the
tide of unbridled importation; To create a huge number of job opportunities, and to contribute to the production of ethanol and generation of electricity.

Given Nigeria’s then 167 million (now about 200 million)market, the NSMP is expected to attract over $1billion private investment both local and foreign and create over 107,000 direct jobs locally at the initial stage in10 years, with the possibility of increasing exports to West African neighbours.

To stimulate and protect the local investment in the sugar sub-sector, plans for a new fiscal tariff was approved to take effect from 1 January 2013. The plans showed a systematic increase in duty and levy on raw sugar and refined sugar from 2012 to 2020.

A 2018 sugar report by USDA Foreign Agricultural Service shows a five-year tax holiday for investors in the Nigerian sugar value chain, 10 percent import duty and 50 percent levy on imported raw sugar, 20 percent duty
and 60 percent levy for imported refined sugar.

Fmn’s backward integration in sugar
It was on the back of efforts towards backward integration that Flour Mills of Nigeria, a publicly traded, vertically integrated supply chain of food, agro-allied and logistics and support businesses, invested N50 billion in the Mokwa sugar facility-an investment which is now up to N63 million, arguably the largest investment of its kind in Nigeria till date.

Not new to investment in agriculture, in the last ten years, FMNhas invested more than N150 billion to execute its core business strategy to aid the agricultural sector through backward integration and support the Nigerian Government’s goal of attaining food-sufficiency.

At the official take-off of the National Sugar Master Plan (NSMP), three refineries; Dangote Sugar Refinery, BUA Sugar Refinery and the Golden Sugar Company, which was commissioned in June 2013, were approved as BIP operators and made to sign up to commitments through which their performance in regard to the FG’s Sugar BIP was to be measured.

At the end of the first phase of the NSMP covering 2013 to 2016, the overall performance of the three
sugar refineries were as follows:

• Golden Sugar Company (FMN)
58%

• Dangote Sugar Refineries (DSR)
46%

• BUA Sugar Refineries 17%

The Golden Sugar Company with a production capacity of 750,000 tonnes of sugar, is one of the largest facilities in Africa delighting individuals and businesses with premium white sugar.

The Sunti Golden Sugar Estates, Golden Sugar Company’s investments in the sugar ecosystem, has since commissioning made a positive impact on the sugar industry, accentuating the efforts that FMN has made to
align with Nigeria’s sugar master plan and position itself as an important pillar in Nigeria’sbackward integration plan for the agricultural sector.

Assessment of impact a year after

To ensure the success of the NSMP, there was a need for Agencies to monitor and evaluate how the activities and outputs are effectively implemented in meeting expected outcomes, indicators and annual key performance
indicators.

The implementation phase of the NSMP (which for effective evaluation covers a four-year period) is subjected to three evaluations, which are End-of year Annual Evaluation; MidTerm Evaluation; and End-Term Evaluation.

The plan was to involve several agencies at different levels to guarantee performance. The agencies include the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment (FM &TI), the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMA& RD), the National Planning Commission (NPC), various committees of the National Assembly on oversight
functions, and the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC).

The National Sugar Development Council is in charge of performance evaluation of the backward integration plans for the three big players (Dangote, FMN and BUA ), as it concerns the goals of the Nigerian sugar master plan.

The National Sugar Council works with Sugar industry Monitoring group (SIMOG)- A peer review mechanism comprising of Dangote, FMN, and BUA, and the Sugar Roadmap Implementation Committee (SURMIC) – Customs, Ministry of Agric, Trade and Investment, Finance etc. Performance evaluation criteria, in essence, are based on:

• How much land is available to grow and harvest sugarcane

• Land Development – building irrigation, dykes etc

• How much investment is put into mill processing

• How much infrastructure is built (community development)

• How many jobs are being created

• How much sugar is being produced

Available land for growing and harvesting sugarcane

The Sunti Sugar Estate has 17,000hectares of arable farmland, a sugar mill with a capacity to process 4,500 metric tonnes of sugarcane daily. The production facility area is 15,100 hectares, with a cane area that features a maximum output of 10, 000 hectares (ha). As at today, 3,00 hectares of sugar cane has been developed under pivot, sprinkle and furrow irrigation.

Land Development

The sugar estate includes a 35-kilometre flood-protection wall and dyke which regulates water levelto protect the canes from flood. It also features a state-of-theart-irrigation system worth over N1 billion to ensure the efficient
cultivation of sugar cane with 276 ha furrow, 700ha pivot and the balance under sprinkler irrigation.

The sugar estate has infrastructure four drain pumps stations with a combined water lifting capacity of 13 cumecs (13,000 litres per second) to evacuate rainwater during the rainy season, 12 irrigation pump stations, and a power
grid stretching 30 km connecting factory turbines and generators to pump stations.

There is also a 2km sealed airstrip and a Sugarcane nursery at the facility.

How much investment is put into mill processing

Over N63 billion has been invested in the Sunti Golden Sugar Estate till date.How much infrastructure is built (community development).

The Sunti Golden Sugar Estates has so far invested heavily in infrastructural development within its host community; the company has built a 398-kilometre road network- including access road from Mokwa, and internal roads connecting local communities as well as creating drainage systems and culverts which facilitates mobility of members of 28 communities around the SGSE.

The sugar producer has also installed flood protection mechanisms at the Ketso community and provided several boreholes providing clean drinking water to about 6 villages.

Also, surrounding villages have already been provided three schools have been constructed and equipped for learning. Teachers have also been provided, funding teachers. SGSE is also planning to provide the community with a sustainable economic activity to support itself through a fishery and Aquaculture project.

While other amenities like clinic and healthcare facilities, police post including mosques and churches
have been donated by SGSE.

Job creation

At peak production, the estate provides direct employment for about 10,000 people yearly, and impacts
up to 50,000 people indirectly, including 3,000 small-scale out growers who will be cultivating sugarcane to feed the mill.

Sugar Production

SGSE targets production of 1,500 tonnes by the end of 2019 in alignment with FMN’s Backward Integration Plan.

https://businessday.ng/agriculture/article/sunti-golden-sugar-estate-how-a-n60bn-investment-is-helping-nigeria-with-its-sugar-plan/

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PMB and Governors of Katsina, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari and Kano, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Gandujethis morning in Daura, as the President sets to lay foundation stone of the university of Transportation in Daura, Katsina State.

Daura agog to receive PMB, CCECC to build and run the university for 5 years before transferring same to the FGN

CCECC is seeding $50m for the project.The university which will be built by CCECC, will be the first specialised institution of its kind

While Ikpeazu is the best governor Nigeria ever had

kwalangida:
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shut up
Buhari is the worst president since mankind

Nice one, its nice to see northern leaders finally waking up to their responsibilities

But ur own hero, the coward chimpanzee looking creature absconded to Ivory coast dressed like a prostitute after using 3m flat.heads for rirual

NaijaRoyalty:
World leaders upon world leaders visiting "Baba go slow" still the country no move forward .

Who stopped teaching history?? My people?? Who are those people please?? Be specific and stop being vague

bigfish3k:
btw, why did u people stop teaching history in schools if not to carry out this kind of distorted write ups by people like u

His people planned and carried out the coup, even tho he was not literally involved, he had the opportunity to clean his hands and exonerate himself by bringing those that committed the atrocities to book, but he kept dragging his foot by being reluctant.. this implies that he had a tacit support or symphaty for the coup plotters, hence, we have no regrets in whatever happened to him!!

Lol "he was on the verge of bringing them to book at his own time", don't take us for illiterates pls!! You can tell this crap anf bullshit to ur delusion friends in a bear parlour... when was it his time, did he personall tell you his time?? People that intentionally, vividly and clearly massacred soldiers in a brutal way, and he could not bring them to book for 8 good months and ur foolishly talking about time

The truth is that had no intention in bringing his people to justice, that's why he kept foot dragging the case while playing to the gallery

Northerners were not in support of unitary system, but that was not the genesis of the counter coup, because if that was the case, they would have done it long time before any other coup.. read all the articles by authors and eye witness and ull know it was the initial coup that killed northern soldiers that led to the counter coup

bigfish3k:
than thank God u agreed that he didnt plan the coup but u killed him for it, for a coup that he didnt plan nor execute but he was the one that foiled the coup for the northerners.
and he was on the verge of bringing them to book at his own time

and you that dont want to change history, pls remind me whether the north/country was in support of the unitary system he was practicing
Mr . man they killed him because of the coup he didnt plan and mostly because of the unitary system which they dont like thats why the north wanted to declare independence after the counter coup but was stopped by the british - we are all suffering it today

I just hate the desperate and disrespect by ibos in always trying to change history by finding fault in others while exonerating themselves. You always try to potray urself as perfect individuals that never had any bad dealings in the history of Nigeria

Aguiyi Ironsi didn't carry out the coup but his kinsmen did, even after the northern region gave him a lifespan of 7 months to bring the coup plotters to justice, he still insisted.. You can't eat ur cake and have it

Northerners didn't carry out the counter coup because of quota system, but because of the ibo coup.. don't try to distort history pls!!!

bigfish3k:
being abusive does not make u right

so u mean that it was aguiyi ironsi that planned the coup

Ibo amaka everywhere

Sharap!! Don't try to change history, he was killed because of the coup that killed mainly northern soldiers.. You see how u nyamuri flat.heads like to take everyone as fools and illiterates!

bigfish3k:
and he was killed for it because others dont like it
why continue with what u dont like and worst still u have tried it and seen that its is retrogressing the country

or do u think we should continue in this path?

Why do you have an issue with him clearing his name in court?

mekaboy:
I am not justifying his action to the focus is on your reaction .

Mtswww pathetic!! They can only deceive nyamuri flat.heads

We all knew it was garagara

Hahahah nyamuri flat.head stop spewing all this trash!!! Let him just go to court and clear his name.. look at how ur all trying to justify his action

No, you are mistaken.. he owns 60% of Lagos, other Ibos control 20% and Yoruba own 20%

It's like you don't listen to RadioBiafra anymore

Afamed:
You are a liar, Ojukwu owns 100% of Lagos

And 60% of Lagos state

Jakpon:
Actually he owns 100%

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The exterior of the soon to be commissioned, International terminal, at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport. The terminal which will be commissioned by PMB before the end of the year, will ultimately boost the economy of Kano and neighboring states, in many significant ways