This is stupidity from Sahara reporters!! The point of building a refinery is to prevent having to import petrol. By the way, NNPC does all the importing of petrol at the moment. When it was opened up to the public under GEJ, it was full of fraud
30% is not going to any northern community. It's going to the exploration of oil and GAS. Most of it will likely go the development of GAS infrastructure as our current infrastructure is woefully inadequate and that is the reason we are not known as a gas producing country.
His heart has already enlarged by 13% after just days off detention? The coward is already trying to abscond for medical reasons, meanwhile he sent dozens of hapless IPOB youths to their death.. Silly coward!
Ighoho is a scammer like Kanu. Buhari has warned all these people disturbing the peace to calm down. Since they have refused, anything their eye see, make dem take am like that.
We have serious economic challenges. We can't add unnecessary security challenges to those
The proposed solutions in the article are weak. The practical solution is to remove bottlenecks in agribusiness. Building infrastructure that facilitates quick transportation from the food baskets to other parts of the country is a key solution. Industrialization of agriculture is also a key solution
-Presidential approval, in 2020, for the establishment of InfraCo Plc, a world class infrastructure development vehicle, wholly focused on Nigeria, with combined debt and equity take-off capital of N15 trillion, and managed by an independent infrastructure fund manager.
- Establishment in 2020 of the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF), with more than $1 Billion in funding so far.
- The Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has seen total additional inflows from the Government of around US$2 billion under the Buhari Administration – since the original US$1 billion which the Fund kicked off with in 2012.
- Launch of the Nigeria Innovation Fund, by the NSIA, to address investment opportunities in the domestic technology sector: data networking, datacenters, software, Agri-tech, Bio-tech, etc.
RAIL
- 156km Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge Rail nearing completion
- 327km Itakpe-Warri Standard Gauge Rail completed and commissioned 33 years after construction began.
- Abuja Light Rail completed in 2018.
- Ground-breaking done for construction of Kano-Maradi Standard Gauge Rail, and revamp of Port-Harcourt-Maiduguri Narrow Gauge Rail.
- Financing negotiations ongoing for Ibadan-Kano Standard Gauge Rail project
ROADS
- Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF), investing over a billion dollars in three flagship projects: Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Second Niger Bridge, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Expressway.
- Executive Order 7 mobilizing private investment into the development of key roads and bridges like Bodo-Bonny in Rivers and Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonshoki-Ojota in Lagos
- Highway Development and Management Initiative (HDMI), a public-private partnership program to mobilise, in its first Phase, over a Trillion Naira in private investment into the development and maintenance of 12 Roads, amounting to 1,963km in length.
- More than 360 billion Naira worth of Sukuk Bonds raised since 2017 for dozens of critical road projects across all six geopolitical zones.
PORTS
- Completion of New Terminals for International Airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt
- Construction of New Runway for Abuja and Enugu International Airports
- Presidential approval for four International Airports as Special Economic Zones: Lagos, Kano, Abuja and Port Harcourt.
- Approval for new private-sector funded deep sea ports: Lekki Deep Sea Port (Construction already well underway, for completion in 2022); Bonny Deep Sea Port (Ground-breaking done in March 2021); Ibom Deep Sea Port; and Warri Deep Sea Port.
- Development of capacity at the Eastern Ports:
o In December 2017, Calabar Port commenced export of bulk cement to Tema Port in Ghana
o In 2019, three container ships berthed at Calabar Port, for the first time in eleven years
o Dredging of Warri Port (Escravos Bar—Warri Port channel) completed in 2018
o On October 30, 2019, an LPG Tanker operated by NLNG, berthed in Port Harcourt – the first time ever an LPG ship berthed in any of the Eastern Ports
o On December 8, 2019, Onne Port received JPO VOLANS (owned by Maersk), the FIRST gearless and largest container vessel (265.07 metres) to call at any Eastern Port in Nigeria.
o On August 1, 2019, Onne Port’s Brawal Terminal received MSC GRACE, its first container vessel since 2012.
POWER
Energizing Education Programme: Taking clean and reliable energy (Solar and Gas) to Federal Universities and Teaching Hospitals across the country. Four Universities completed and commissioned already: BUK (Kano), FUNAI (Ebonyi), ATBU (Bauchi) and FUPRE (Delta); others ongoing.
Energizing Economies Programme: Taking clean and reliable energy (Solar and Gas) to markets across the country. Completed projects include Sabon-Gari Market in Kano, Ariaria Market in Aba, and Sura Shopping Complex in Lagos.
National Mass Metering Programme: Nationwide rollout of electricity meters to all on-grid consumers, launched in August 2020. The Central Bank of Nigeria is providing 60 billion Naira for the first phase, with a target of 1 million meter installations. So far more than 500,000 meters have been delivered to the Discos, and more than 280,000 installed.
Solar Power Naija: Launched in April 2021 to deliver 5 million off-grid solar connections to Nigerian households. The program is expected to generate an additional N7 billion increase in tax revenues per annum and $10 million in annual import substitution. In May 2021, the Rural Electrification Agency announced the planned deployment of solar-powered grids to 200 Primary Health Centres (PHC) and 104 Unity Schools nationwide.
Presidential Power Initiative (PPI), aka Siemens Power Program: A Government-to-Government initiative involving the Governments of Nigeria and Germany, and Siemens AG of Germany, to upgrade and modernize Nigeria’s electricity grid. Contract for the pre-engineering phase of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) was signed in February 2021, following the 2020 approval for the payment of FGN’s counterpart funding for that phase.
Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) has provided grants for the deployment of 200,000 Solar Home Systems, impacting one million Nigerians. The NEP is also delivering mini-grids across the country.
HOUSING
- The Family Homes Fund Limited (FHFL), incorporated by the Federal Government of Nigeria in September 2016, is the implementing agency for the Buhari Administration’s National Social Housing scheme.
- More than two thousand (2,000) hectares of land with titled documents have been given by 24 States for the Buhari administration’s Social Housing programme, with the capacity to accommodate about 65,000 new homes.
- Under the National Social Housing programme, Nigerians will be given at least a 15-year period with a monthly payment at 6 percent interest rate, to pay for each housing unit. The Central Bank of Nigeria is providing a N200 Billion financing facility, with a guarantee by the FGN.
So let me get this straight. P&ID did not do any work but they want Nigeria to settle with them for $850 million.
EFCC will soon uncover the shady way they got the contract and this will probably end with criminal charges being filed against them in their home country for engaging in bribery
Clint26: I am 19 years old boy ,I have been losing my hair since 2015 and this has resulted to male pattern baldness or receding hairline. This is making me feel ashamed whenever am with my peers. and sometimes it often makes me stay indoors. i have been trying different remedies such as using coconut oil,shea butter but to no avail!
Pls help me!
What's the issue? Just shave the rest of your hair off. Michael Jordan is bald too..
Abagworo: If indeed Ihedioha could only get 25% of votes in only 12 Local Government Areas out of 27 and majority of his votes coming from only 3 Local Government Areas then the tribunal might have to adhere to the constitution. A lot of drama in Imo elections.
There will clearly be a re-run. Which is why I don't understand why Ihedioha have been doing unpopular things like tearing down some of Okorocha's projects
SLAP44: Those who took the freedom and peace Jonathan offered for granted will need to work night and day for another 3 years to get someone half as good as Jonathan.
What a clown you are. Sowore could not fly into Nigeria when GEJ was president. He had to sneak in and out through Republic of Benin.
Buhari and his Fulani men are up to no food for the this country the earlier you see what i am seeing the better. Don’t see down crying do something about it
tevinsolt: Based on my observation, the majority of Nigerians live in a state of perpetual ignorance - as presented by the sample size online. So I have come to a conclusion that, the provisions, structures and institutions that Nigerians want to see in their country is a long shot from ever happening.
Additionally the diversity of poorly informed views exhumed with utmost pride added to the already prevalent ignorance propagates confusion and makes the possibility of unity and ever getting anything done zero to none.
Change my mind
You are absolutely right. Case in point, the quality of discussions on Nairaland. It is very obvious why Nigeria is behind a lot of countries
Coitus: I opened a thread earlier today in the politics section and while reading the comments I saw a short clip video posted about the RUGA brouhaha.
After watching the two minutes footage I had my hands in my mouth, like the Fulanization agenda is actually true and it's no joke. So I decided to go search for the full clip on YouTube and I saw a 30 minutes eye opening clip. What i was particularly annoyed about was that the Channels television presenter MOUPE was so partisan. She kept interrupting Dr. Katchy while he's dropping fact about foreigners occupying lands and killing Nigerians.
Channels television is gone, they are now biased, hiding the truth. It's pretty clear now the government has bought the channel. I've totally lost respect for MOUPE. Maybe when the chaos visits her village she'll drop the nonsense partisanship. I'm pissed
You have to be the biggest id-iot in the history of mankind if you think Maupe should have allowed the hate mongering id--iot who came to spew mo-ronic conspiracy theory, to talk freely
MetaPhysical: A Group Constantly Adapting to the Local Environment
Like other extremist groups such as the Macina Liberation Front, ISGS has exploited grievances of marginalized communities to recruit, especially (though not exclusively) among young Fulani men. Lack of economic opportunities, a sense of diminished social status, and the need for protection against cattle theft all apparently influence the decision to join ISGS. For instance, in the Tillabéri region of Niger, even in the absence of significant financial resources from extremist groups such as ISGS, joining an extremist group is often associated with elevated status. According to a local Fulani leader, “Having weapons gives you a kind of prestige—young people from the villages are very influenced by the young armed bandits who drive around on motorbikes, well dressed and well fed. Young herders are very envious of them, they admire their appearance.”
Members of miyetti allah, fulani herders, are recruited into terrorism like ISGS which is affiliated with ISIS to use Jihad to islamize Nigeria. They find banditry appealing because of the readily available funds to dress well, feed well, ride around on motorbikes, carry guns.
You seem to have an inability to comprehend. What the article say and what you are saying are worlds apart. So if Igbo traders are envious of successful Igbo kidnappers, does that mean the kidnappers are traders?
StillX10: Has any of those kidnappers you mentioned ever killed anyone from the north? Have they ever carried weapons and walk in the bush to kill anyone?
Stop placing herdsmen evil activities with any kidnapper on the same per
Lol, there are far far more killings in the north and the south. On Abuja-Kaduna road alone, 20 kidnapping gangs were operating until Abba Kyari dealt with them..
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