₦airaland Forum

afoltundeseen:

All these for the camera. By tomorrow now, those computer would have been moved to the state house.

deomelo:
It's never been about funds, it's always been about the constitution, laws and governmental restrictions.


The fact that Lagos state built the first IPP in Nigeria under Tinubu and still did not get the benefits in Lagos state means it was never about money, it was and still is about laws, constitution nd government policies.

BeautifulMind2:
Obijackson Group and its subsidiaries. The Group is a major reference point in local content and has continued to deploy technology, delivering high quality services to companies across key sectors, ranging from oil and gas, construction, aviation and fabrication among others. In spite of the recession, the company is seeking to invest a minimum of $200 million over the next three years, in the construction of a power plant and in building a pipeline to convey gas to the power plants. Specifically, one of the subsidiaries, Century Power is building a modular power plant in Okija, Anambra State. The company plans to commence with a 465 megawatts (MW) module that would be scaled up ultimately to 2,000mw. A number of companies are already lining up to be hooked up to the power plant. In addition to building the power plant, the company also plans to build a 65 kilometers power pipeline that would be probably the first and only gas pipeline into the eastern part of Nigeria. The pipeline, which the company said would cost about $200 million, is going to be built from the OB3 pipeline, which is east to West in the Delta. The company said it would tap gas from that pipeline to Okija. The company said the pipeline would support the power plant and would also supply gas that would be piped into the eastern region. “Imagine all the industries in the eastern part of the country that has no gas. Suddenly that opens up the opportunity for them to be more efficient by using gas instead of the generators and other methods of power supply that they get,” said Mr. Simeon Tor-Agbidye, Assistant General Manager, Group Business Development, Nestoil Limited. Another of the Obijackson subsidiary, Shipside Drydock has emerged as one of the foremost ship maintenance facilities in the region, with a submersible dry dock and maintenance facilities for electronics, instrumentation and mechanical among others. In particular, the company claimed that by July 2017, companies would no longer have the need to take any vessel less than 110 meters out of the country for repairs or anything, as by then, it would have fully developed its capacity to undertake large jobs in that regard. Energy Works Technology, another subsidiary, is a fabrication company, involved in fabricating process vessels, infrastructure such as platforms, gas gathering facilities, manifolds among others. The company recently fabricated some of the vessels for the topsides of the Egina Floating Production, Storage and offloading vessels at its yard at Abuloma, which is set for export to South Korea to be integrated on the main vessel. The company is also expanding its capacity into the fabrication of super duplex stainless steel, a kind of welding and fabrication that is required for subsea facilities. Scorpio Drilling, a crude oil drilling company, also recently acquired a rig and has secured a three year work programme for the rig. The company said the rig would be involved in drilling operations for Neconde, its exploration and production (E&P) Joint Venture (JV) with Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, while it has adequate capacity to drill for other oil companies as well. Nestoil, the flagship company of the group is an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning, EPCC, company engaged in pipeline and facilities construction. Two other subsidiaries, B&Q Dredging and Nesthak, a horizontal directional drilling company are currently engaged in a massive dredging project in Bayelsa State and in the laying of pipes under roads and rivers for the OB3 pipeline project respectively. Particularly, B&Q Dredging, a dredging company, helped in dredging the River Niger for the Second Niger Bridge project, while Nesthak is currently involved in helping to cross the Ase River in the OB3 pipeline project, with the River Niger, being the next target, a distance of 1,800 meters. Nesthak would be engaged to drill underneath the River Niger to pass the pipeline, so that it is not laid in the water. The subsidiaries cover quite a significant portion of the oil and gas value chain, providing a lot of value. All of the companies directly employ over 3,000 individuals, making them one of the biggest employers of labour in the private sector in the country today. As part of its survival strategies, Tor-Agbidye said the company is optimizing its processes so as to become very competitive and is also deploying more equipment and training people to be more efficient. He said, “All the operators are talking about low cost, high quality; but once we optimize, which is what we are doing now, we would become very competitive; we would have businesses. Even if oil price is $20, we are there; our services would be there for people. He said the company is moving its crude oil offshore to where it would be loaded, adding that if it does not produce and cannot move its crude, we cannot make money, so people get laid off and facilities get grounded. On its plans for the future, Mr. Chris Ijeli, Group Head, Business Development, Nestoil Limited, said, “For the future, the project that is upcoming is Zabazaba. It is ENI, Agip. That is an Eni-run project. It is the Zabazaba field. They are going to set up all the facilities, FPSO, subsea facilities, all of that. “We are currently in the bid stage of this. Everybody is turning in technical and commercial proposals and all of that. That is what is going to fill up the shops for the next few years. After that, they are a couple of other projects that would be coming up. Like there is the Bonga South West, there is Etan, there are several projects that are coming up in the future, but the next big thing is Zabazaba. Everybody is gearing up for Zabazaba.” In addition, Tor-Agbidye said, “Besides that, right here in the country, there are lots of projects, fabrication projects; there are lots of things that can be done. One mistake that we do most of the time is that we tend to focus on the oil and gas industry. “But there is a lot out there. Like you go to the bottling companies, they have pressure vessels, they have pipes, and all of those things. You see this, this is a steel roof. We can fabricate this. All of those structures that you see, the steel gates, we can do all of those things. You go the breweries; in fact we can do everything that has to do with fabrication. “With respect to pipelines, there is a masterplan of gas pipeline for Nigeria. If you go and look at the Nigerian Gas Master Plan, there are a lot of gas pipeline planned for Nigeria and these are high-value projects. There are several bids for these that are coming up over the next few years. Those should provide activity for the EPCC companies as well. “There is enough for everybody in the market right now. We are able to keep ourselves busy, keep developing, keep transferring knowledge, keep growing people, and keep growing capacity to help the rest of the region grow as well.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/obijackson-driving-growth-technology-innovation/

deomelo:
You can not pick and chose what and who is visionary. Tinubu is a visionary leader just like Awo was in his days.

The societal and political environment today and back in Awo's regional administration era when Awo was able to actualize his vision independently with his own funds from the SW are not even the same today so where is the basis for comparison?

lastempero:
The guy is just chilling and surviving despite the huge loss he is incurring. The last time he celebrated his birthday, he was very bitter.

deomelo:
In a thread about sending IPP generated power to the National grid, you concluded that they don't have visionary leaders in the SW when in fact the SW and one of their visionary leaders built the first IPP (271MW) in Nigeria to supply power primarily to Lagosians in Lagos state, a visionary and revolutionary idea that was sabotaged, dismantled and truncated by the shortsighted, unpatriotic and moronic politically bankrupt like OBJ and the PDP at the National level.

That power plant is still pumping 271MW into the National grid and the LASG is still paying for that power plant till today via deductions from monthly allocations.

That sabotaged vision is the reason why the Lagos state doesn't have such power plants and uninterrupted power supply today.

lastempero:
I pray professor nnaji will live to see his dream come through. Nigeria is really good in killing it's own.

ezenwajosh:
I LOVE YOU... Do you know in ANAMBRA STATE I WAS GENERATING ELECTRICITY AND WAS SHUT DOWN BY THE SAME NERC THAT GAVE ME PERMITS... THE ELECTRICITY I WAS GENERATING WASN'T EVEN ENOUGH TO POWER A COMMUNITY BUT EEDC STARTED LOSING THEIR CUSTOMERS AND I WAS SHUT DOWN... BECAUSE I WAS ABLE TO GIVE 17HRS ELECTRICITY A DAY

Bevista:
The Land Use Act is the greatest disservice that the OBJ administration bestowed to Nigeria in 1978. But what annoys me even more is the fact that our current set of lawmakers since 1999 have not found it expedient to expunge such ridiculous Act.
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But that is just one of the problems. The bigger problem is that the FG arrogates to itself so much rights and responsibilities under the EXCLUSIVE LIST. Why should the FG be in control of POWER distribution? Why must they control all our water ways in the states? No state (even with capacity) can develop sea ports without recourse to the FG.
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The responsibilities on the FG is overwhelming, which explains why our development is slow. We can blame the states all we like, but until the FG removes its hand from controlling resources domiciled in the States, we will b running in circles.

wirinet:
You just described 95% of the world countries. Britain did not just AGREE to come together to become one, they went through lots of political upheavals including centuries of wars[b] before they eventually agreed to be one[/b], and that agreement is tenuous at best. Scotland and Northern Ireland might still decide to leave, based on the type of Brexit the government gets.

Once a country is forged together, it is extremely difficult to break, and the fall out of the breakage if often painful (civil wars, power tussles, economic issues, etc), theses might take decades, sometimes centuries to resolve.

As I said, I agree the constitution is faulty. Yes it favours the north. My argument is that within the framework of this faulty constitution, a lot can be achieved and progress made, with[b] right visionary and sincere leaders.[/b]
Most of the problems besetting the states or regions is not due to the faulty constitution, but due to[b] greed, visionlessness and incompetence of the ruling class on all levels.[/b]
The Niger Delta and the South East cannot boast of one, just one outstanding visionary leader.
The north also has the same problem, that's why a Buhari is worshiped as the best the north can offer.

rexwalters:
There is nothing wrong with our constitution,to the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a perfect constitution anywhere in the world,the people's interpretation of the constitution is what gives it its value,majority of the people in UK and USA will end up with nothing but debt at the end.

So go and struggle and be the best you can be,Nigeria owes you nothing,it was your fore fathers that wrote the constitution or are you telling me your fore fathers no get sense?

A man cannot give what he does not have,Oyibo dey Europe,Black man dey Africa.

wirinet:
Britain does not have a written constitution and yet it makes progress.

lastempero:
Nigeria cannot progress with the current constitution and arrangement even in the next century.

wirinet:
To register an oil company is not that difficult. All you need to do is to go to CAC and register a company and then operate like a regular business.
A better option is to register and investment company and then partner with foreign companies with expertise in the oil industry or any other interested industries to operate and run the business. Lagos States has Ibile Holdings - http://ibileholdings.com/about-us/ . Awolowo did wonders with Odua Investments, they dominated the cocoa industry. Odua Investments at a time was one of the biggest conglomerates in West Africa.

There are no Laws against incorporating a company and partnering with foreign companies to do business in Nigeria. At the start of this democracy in 1999, many state governments partnered with Econet Wireless to bring GSM to Nigeria and their states, like Lagos and Delta, but greed took over the governors and they sold the shares and pocketed the money.

Niorte:
Nothing is bad in it.

It is a Christian school and all teachers are expected to impart Christian virtues on the students. When it is time for fellowship, all students and teachers are expected to participate.

The school has done the right thing. If it were a Muslim school, they would not have accepted Christian teacher too.

You can't change a school system because of a staff.

Let him be reposted to an Almajiri's or Muslim or Secular school.

We Christian don't like fight, he had been told before he starts claiming he has right to keep loooooong beards as an Alfa and when it is time to teach or have meeting, he might say he wants to go and pray.

Someone below says the school could have used the opportunity to show him the beauty of Christianity but do not forget, he will also have influence on the students who will gladly heed to his biddings because he is a Corper. (Students love and respect corps members more than their regular teachers). More over, remember, a little leavening leaveneth the whole lump. A drop of poo can make a tank of water undrinkable.

wirinet:
That's what I have been telling the "Nigeria held us back" crew. If you get visionary and sincere leaders, no system can hold them back, they would find a way around all obstacles.
For example, to beat the states must "feed the national grid" law, don't pass through the national grid, don't use the transmission lines. Just create clusters - industrial, commercial or social clusters and the generate power locally to those clusters. Some private companies are doing it.

To beat the 13% derivation law, create oil companies and bid and obtain oil licences in your state. If the state own or partnered companies drill it's own oil, it will receive 40% share of crude sales along with 13% derivation.

As I also say, it is only a bad workmen that quarrels with his tools, good workmen perform wonders with bad tools.

I888:
no mind the MALU? who is he calling brothers up north when they can not compete favourably with their counterparts in the south? In jamb, the cut off mark in the North is always different from what is obtainable in the south...

wetin concern me?

rexwalters:
Aggressive Grass Cutter Bush Meat?

AZeD1:
Akwa Ibom owns the Ibom power plant and it supplies power to Akwa Ibom.

You can see more about the the company here..

http://ibompower.com/company/

rexwalters:
Thanks for the update at least people like meccuno and 1888 now know they are the foolish ones,always blaming their own shortcomings on our brothers up North.

Kagd10:
Liar. Ojukwu was never in support of secession until the reprisal attack on the Ibos in the North.

In fact, it was documented that few minutes after ironsi had signed the unitary decree, Ojukwu had opined for the Ibos to go to the northern region to take over the Jobs because the Northerners were less educated than the Ibos. What the hell? I mean how could Ibo have perpetrated such wickedness on another person land? This wickedness was equivalent to how Azikiwe appointed 302 Ibos out of the 305 staffs appointed at the university of Ibadan, a SW University! Only 2 Yorubas was appointed. Just look at the wickedness! It's even foolish of Ibos to have expected the Yorubas they maligned to help them in their secession. Thunder fire your ass.

The Northerners warned against what Ojukwu and ironsi who were perpetrating nonsense in the North through the stupid unitary decree but they refused to heed to the warning, apart from the fact that Ibos were mocking the Northerners over the death of their leaders who were killed by the Ibos. The Ibos had made plenty of posters which had the pictures of Ifeajuna and Ironsi standing over the lifeless bodies of Ahmadu and Tafawa Balewa. Not only this, the coup plotters weren't even sent to a northern nor Western prison like it should have been but were given a pat on the back and allowed to stay back in the eastern region while ironsi kept on lying that they were in prison which was untrue. Not just this but also, the perpetrators of the coup weren't brought under trial by Ironsi because death was the penalty for killing political leaders but Ironsi refused to bring them under trial.

When the Northerners couldn't take the wickedness of the Ibos, they plotted their own counter coup and killed Ironsi with all his friends. Afterwards, they attacked the Ibos living amidst them and asked them to go back to their region. Don't forget these Ibos had taken over their jobs after the stupid unitary decree by Ironsi enabled by Ojukwu. Hence, Ibo should be the one to look inward and see the atrocities they have caused others. Only then you will heal.

I really don't know what is bad or difficult in going back to your region if you ain't wanted in another region. It's not by force to stay in another person's region and be dragging their region with them. That's greediness. I don't even think you have learned anything from the war because you are still back to your behaviour of dragging region which ain't yours. Na curse?

AZeD1:
This is wrong. The reason why power was sent to the national grid was because of cost. It's cheaper to generate power via water (hydro stations) than gas because the input for hydro stations which is water cost nothing. So using a central grid meant a person in kano paid the same as a person in Enugu.

Now the law has been amended (since 2014) and anyone is free to generate power and distribute as they like.

Transmission is different from Distribution and the FG only controls Transmission.