₦airaland Forum

.

HMMM

Imo International Conference Center. You have not experienced development or hospitality until you visit Imo State

Your part maybe abandoned but not my part. Although Okigwe zone has not received as much attention as Owerri and Orlu zones.

mandax:
OWERRI is beautiful. This thread is about Owerri.

Please quit smoking weed by saying Imo state is beautiful.


The rest of Imo state outside Owerri remain abandoned property since its governor joined APC.

THE MORE THE GOV. PAINTS OWERRI WITH NEW YORK COLOURS AND EVEN DIGS TUNNEL WHERE THERE ARE NO HILLS IN OWERRI, BUT CRUDELY ABANDONED HIS RESPONSIBILITIES IN OTHER AREAS OF THE STATE, THE MORE HE CLOSES HIS CHAPTER IN FUTURE POLITICAL PURSUITS.

Iche na ndi mmadu wu ewu? You think people are goats.

ONYE SHI NA ALA OWERRI ARIRI YA MMA KO VURU NGWO NGWO YA LAKPO.

Nawa ooo

Hezekiah University: The Nigerian University where the Vice Chancellor Lectures
By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu On 15/04/2016 05:53:10 AM

Hezekiah University is the cheapest private university in Nigeria, says VC Prof Emeka Ezeonu
His Grace, the Most Rev. (Prof.) Daddy Hezekiah (MFR), the Anointed Prophet of the Most HIGH God and founder of Living Christ Mission Inc., made another major achievement recently by founding the Hezekiah University, Umudi, Nkwerre Local Government area of Imo State.
And with the arrival of this great, new private university in Nigeria, the Hezekiah University (aka UNIHEZ), hundreds of stu­dents seeking admission into ter­tiary institutions in Nigeria heaved a big sigh of relief. This is because Daddy Hezekiah is known for ex­cellence, professionalism and phi­lanthropy in all he does.
The Board of the Institution went for the best and appoint­ed Prof Francis Chukwuemeka Ezeonu as its pioneer Vice Chan­cellor. Before, Ezeonu’s appoint­ment in November 2015, he held dual Professorial appointments at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Univer­sity, Awka, Nigeria as Professorial Chair in Environmental Biochem­istry & Toxicology at the Depart­ment of Applied Biochemistry (appointed in 2001) and another chair in Drug and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (appointed 2010) at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Scienc­es both of Nnamdi Azikiwe Uni­versity.
Ezeonu holds a Bachelor of Sci­ence (B.Sc) degree in Applied Bio­chemistry of the defunct Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTECH), Enugu, the pro­genitor of Enugu State Univer­sity of Science and Technology and Nnamdi Azikiwe Universi­ty, Awka. He also hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Bio­chemistry from the University of Ibadan and a Doctor of Philoso­phy (Ph.D.) degree in Applied Bio­chemistry from the Nnamdi Aziki­we University, Awka.
He started his university teach­ing career in 1988 from the Uni­versity of Ibadan where as a post­graduate student he doubled as a Graduate Demonstrator and was entrusted with organizing prac­tical classes for pre-clinical med­ical students. On completion of his M.Sc. programme in 1989, he was hired as Assistant Lectur­er by his undergraduate parent department at ASUTECH and promoted to Lecturer II in 1990. With the splitting of the Universi­ty into two, he transferred his ser­vices to Nnamdi Azikiwe Univer­sity and rose speedily to the rank of Professor in 2001. He also holds a certificate (Executive Education) in Leadership Decision Making from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univer­sity, U.S.A.
He was in 2010 appointed the only African scientist in a 31-member International Joint Expert Committee of FAO/WHO on the Toxicity of Bisphenol A. He is widely travelled and capacity de­velopment and educational tour­ism has taken him to over twenty five universities outside Nigeria (in Europe, USA, Canada, China and the rest of Africa).
He pioneered the establishment of the Directorate of International Cooperation (IC), the Directorate of Information and Communica­tion Technology (ICT) and is cur­rently founding the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Devel­opment.
No wonder Daddy Hezekiah went for Prof Ezeonu even when he did not apply for the job but had superlative recommenda­tions of the greatest Vice Chan­cellor Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka ever had, Prof Ilochi Okafor, SAN. Ezeonu , the Hezekiah VC, is conversant with the world’s best academic practices and has in his short stay in office demonstrated uncommon knowledge, financial prudence, discipline, courage and will-power to pioneer and bring about innovations that can enrich the fortunes of UNIHEZ universi­ty to the admiration of all.
The first matriculation ceremo­ny of the university comes up to­day, 15th April, 2016 at the Univer­sity’s Matriculation Ground, with 112 students, because the Universi­ty academic programmes were not advertised in the JAMB brochure for the 2015/2016 session. So, they sourced for students, which is their responsibility and regularized their admission with JAMB because they didn’t have people who applied to be admitted or sent to them by JAMB.
Prof Ezeonu reveals the efforts and journey so far in this encoun­ter with The AUTHORITY News­paper’s team. Excerpts:
The journey so far
I never applied for the job but I was quite impressed when I got there. I saw evidence of somebody who is serious to run a Universi­ty from the Promoter, Prof Daddy Hezekiah, MFR, Odum-Ebo-Ndig­bo (The Lion of Igbo tribe), and I felt it will be a good development if I can also lend my support. I was appointed and I resumed duty on 2nd November, 2015 and by 30th November, we kicked off with ac­ademic activities with the first set of students and we were able to complete our first semester and by Thursday of the Holy Week, we completed our first semester and we resumed for the second semes­ter on April 11th.
Is it true you enter the classroom as VC?
Under normal circumstances, a VC is just like a teacher. You have to be exemplary in what you do. I like teaching and under normal circumstances, a VC should have at least 1 or 2 Credit loads and in more advanced Universities, they take it from the post-graduate stu­dents. I feel that a VC teaching will serve as a morale booster to stu­dents.
For the lecturers, they know that if a VC is in the classroom and on time, they will have no excuse to stay away from lectures. Apart from that, I do regular monitoring, since we have limited departments and few number of students. As for the students, I interact with them reg­ularly as a way of creating a feed­back mechanism.
Once every month, I create a forum where I interact with stu­dents to find out how the lectures are going and the challenges they have. So, I think it has some posi­tive impact on the students because they feel excited when VC comes around for lectures.
Plans in view to enlarge the uni­versity?
From the experience of the pri­vate Universities, starting up a uni­versity with 112 students indicates that we have a good patronage be­cause before now, we have no name identity. But this time, our univer­sity has been enlisted by JAMB and people will willingly apply, though, we don’t know the number yet.
There are some of these tradi­tional courses that are no longer highly subscribed for, courses like Botany, Mathematics, Physics, and Christian Religious Studies and so on. We have looked at them around and have rebranded these Cours­es so that we can have a greater pa­tronage.
For instance, we are looking at changing the department of Bota­ny to the department of Plant and Environmental Biology and when we do that, we will upgrade our scheme to cover areas not captured in our previous courses.
We also have plans to rebrand some of our Courses, we want our Physics to be with Electronics, so that we have real life application. Physics appears abstract the way it is today, but if they do Physics/Electronics, they will have practical application. We want our Physics graduates to play around with Elec­tronic Circuit as a practical knowl­edge and produce Mother Board. That is when they will have a feel of serious Industrial Application.
We also want to market our­selves. In most developed coun­tries like UK, US, you have to ad­vertise yourself because if you get to a place like London, within the London metropolis, you will find out you have more than 10 good universities and when you look at the ratio of the population, you will see the need to market yourself.
Here, the demand and supply pattern does not favour the ap­plicants. Every year, we have mil­lions of students who end up not getting admitted. The fact that we are contending with older univer­sities, we have to market ourselves to show our capability so that we can attract these students and that is why we want to introduce what is called an “Open Day” where pro­spective students and their parents can come around our university to look at our facilities to find out our capabilities which will help them to make their choice.
How many Courses have been accredited in your University?
We have not made any. What happens is that before accredita­tion, you have to meet certain cri­teria. The NUC will send an expert group to come and see the resourc­es we have and determined if it is sufficient to start a University. Of course we were okay and we were given a quota to take 500 students for now. The quota will increase when we expand and grow.
We have three facilitates for now; faculty of Natural and Applied Sci­ences, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences and faculty of Hu­manities. Within these three facul­ties, we have nine (9) departments and 11 programmes. We are look­ing forward to improving in our programmes and also the possibili­ty of making the department of Po­litical Sciences to become Depart­ment of Political Science and public Administration, because people are calling to know if we have these causes. We try to find out what people need and try to incorpo­rate them in our programmes.
Your employer, Daddy Hezeki­ah, is a Philanthropist and most students in the university are on scholarship. Is that why you are facing the challenge of finance to run the university?
You are right because our uni­versity is one of the cheapest pri­vate universities in the country for now. The school fee is N350,000 but the promoter, Daddy Hezekiah, a philanthropist, has granted partial scholarship to all the students. He promised to pay N100,000 to the first 500 students and he did exact­ly that to those already in the pro­gramme.
We are not-raising much from school fees. For now, we are relying heavily on his benevolence, hoping that with time, we will be there. We want to introduce Joint Universi­ty Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB) founded by a Consortium of about 11 Federal Universities to­gether with JAMB and over 30 Ni­gerian Universities have affiliated with JUPEB programme.
JUPEB is a foundation course (a one-year programme) if one fin­ishes it and writes certified exam and passes, it qualifies the person to enter into any Nigerian University that subscribes to the programme. It means that one can come in as a 200 level student. We have applied to JUPEB. The first set of JUPEB graduates were admitted in direct entry in 2004 and it rotates. By the time it comes around, we will be joining. A team of JUPEB has al­ready visited the university and we are expecting a feedback from them and I am convinced they are satis­fied with what they saw.

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/04/Hezekiah-University--The-only-Nigerian-University-where-the-Vice-Chancellor-lectures/

Hezekiah University: The Nigerian University where the Vice Chancellor Lectures
By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu On 15/04/2016 05:53:10 AM

Hezekiah University is the cheapest private university in Nigeria, says VC Prof Emeka Ezeonu
His Grace, the Most Rev. (Prof.) Daddy Hezekiah (MFR), the Anointed Prophet of the Most HIGH God and founder of Living Christ Mission Inc., made another major achievement recently by founding the Hezekiah University, Umudi, Nkwerre Local Government area of Imo State.
And with the arrival of this great, new private university in Nigeria, the Hezekiah University (aka UNIHEZ), hundreds of stu­dents seeking admission into ter­tiary institutions in Nigeria heaved a big sigh of relief. This is because Daddy Hezekiah is known for ex­cellence, professionalism and phi­lanthropy in all he does.
The Board of the Institution went for the best and appoint­ed Prof Francis Chukwuemeka Ezeonu as its pioneer Vice Chan­cellor. Before, Ezeonu’s appoint­ment in November 2015, he held dual Professorial appointments at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Univer­sity, Awka, Nigeria as Professorial Chair in Environmental Biochem­istry & Toxicology at the Depart­ment of Applied Biochemistry (appointed in 2001) and another chair in Drug and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (appointed 2010) at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Scienc­es both of Nnamdi Azikiwe Uni­versity.
Ezeonu holds a Bachelor of Sci­ence (B.Sc) degree in Applied Bio­chemistry of the defunct Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTECH), Enugu, the pro­genitor of Enugu State Univer­sity of Science and Technology and Nnamdi Azikiwe Universi­ty, Awka. He also hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Bio­chemistry from the University of Ibadan and a Doctor of Philoso­phy (Ph.D.) degree in Applied Bio­chemistry from the Nnamdi Aziki­we University, Awka.
He started his university teach­ing career in 1988 from the Uni­versity of Ibadan where as a post­graduate student he doubled as a Graduate Demonstrator and was entrusted with organizing prac­tical classes for pre-clinical med­ical students. On completion of his M.Sc. programme in 1989, he was hired as Assistant Lectur­er by his undergraduate parent department at ASUTECH and promoted to Lecturer II in 1990. With the splitting of the Universi­ty into two, he transferred his ser­vices to Nnamdi Azikiwe Univer­sity and rose speedily to the rank of Professor in 2001. He also holds a certificate (Executive Education) in Leadership Decision Making from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univer­sity, U.S.A.
He was in 2010 appointed the only African scientist in a 31-member International Joint Expert Committee of FAO/WHO on the Toxicity of Bisphenol A. He is widely travelled and capacity de­velopment and educational tour­ism has taken him to over twenty five universities outside Nigeria (in Europe, USA, Canada, China and the rest of Africa).
He pioneered the establishment of the Directorate of International Cooperation (IC), the Directorate of Information and Communica­tion Technology (ICT) and is cur­rently founding the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Devel­opment.
No wonder Daddy Hezekiah went for Prof Ezeonu even when he did not apply for the job but had superlative recommenda­tions of the greatest Vice Chan­cellor Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka ever had, Prof Ilochi Okafor, SAN. Ezeonu , the Hezekiah VC, is conversant with the world’s best academic practices and has in his short stay in office demonstrated uncommon knowledge, financial prudence, discipline, courage and will-power to pioneer and bring about innovations that can enrich the fortunes of UNIHEZ universi­ty to the admiration of all.
The first matriculation ceremo­ny of the university comes up to­day, 15th April, 2016 at the Univer­sity’s Matriculation Ground, with 112 students, because the Universi­ty academic programmes were not advertised in the JAMB brochure for the 2015/2016 session. So, they sourced for students, which is their responsibility and regularized their admission with JAMB because they didn’t have people who applied to be admitted or sent to them by JAMB.
Prof Ezeonu reveals the efforts and journey so far in this encoun­ter with The AUTHORITY News­paper’s team. Excerpts:
The journey so far
I never applied for the job but I was quite impressed when I got there. I saw evidence of somebody who is serious to run a Universi­ty from the Promoter, Prof Daddy Hezekiah, MFR, Odum-Ebo-Ndig­bo (The Lion of Igbo tribe), and I felt it will be a good development if I can also lend my support. I was appointed and I resumed duty on 2nd November, 2015 and by 30th November, we kicked off with ac­ademic activities with the first set of students and we were able to complete our first semester and by Thursday of the Holy Week, we completed our first semester and we resumed for the second semes­ter on April 11th.
Is it true you enter the classroom as VC?
Under normal circumstances, a VC is just like a teacher. You have to be exemplary in what you do. I like teaching and under normal circumstances, a VC should have at least 1 or 2 Credit loads and in more advanced Universities, they take it from the post-graduate stu­dents. I feel that a VC teaching will serve as a morale booster to stu­dents.
For the lecturers, they know that if a VC is in the classroom and on time, they will have no excuse to stay away from lectures. Apart from that, I do regular monitoring, since we have limited departments and few number of students. As for the students, I interact with them reg­ularly as a way of creating a feed­back mechanism.
Once every month, I create a forum where I interact with stu­dents to find out how the lectures are going and the challenges they have. So, I think it has some posi­tive impact on the students because they feel excited when VC comes around for lectures.
Plans in view to enlarge the uni­versity?
From the experience of the pri­vate Universities, starting up a uni­versity with 112 students indicates that we have a good patronage be­cause before now, we have no name identity. But this time, our univer­sity has been enlisted by JAMB and people will willingly apply, though, we don’t know the number yet.
There are some of these tradi­tional courses that are no longer highly subscribed for, courses like Botany, Mathematics, Physics, and Christian Religious Studies and so on. We have looked at them around and have rebranded these Cours­es so that we can have a greater pa­tronage.
For instance, we are looking at changing the department of Bota­ny to the department of Plant and Environmental Biology and when we do that, we will upgrade our scheme to cover areas not captured in our previous courses.
We also have plans to rebrand some of our Courses, we want our Physics to be with Electronics, so that we have real life application. Physics appears abstract the way it is today, but if they do Physics/Electronics, they will have practical application. We want our Physics graduates to play around with Elec­tronic Circuit as a practical knowl­edge and produce Mother Board. That is when they will have a feel of serious Industrial Application.
We also want to market our­selves. In most developed coun­tries like UK, US, you have to ad­vertise yourself because if you get to a place like London, within the London metropolis, you will find out you have more than 10 good universities and when you look at the ratio of the population, you will see the need to market yourself.
Here, the demand and supply pattern does not favour the ap­plicants. Every year, we have mil­lions of students who end up not getting admitted. The fact that we are contending with older univer­sities, we have to market ourselves to show our capability so that we can attract these students and that is why we want to introduce what is called an “Open Day” where pro­spective students and their parents can come around our university to look at our facilities to find out our capabilities which will help them to make their choice.
How many Courses have been accredited in your University?
We have not made any. What happens is that before accredita­tion, you have to meet certain cri­teria. The NUC will send an expert group to come and see the resourc­es we have and determined if it is sufficient to start a University. Of course we were okay and we were given a quota to take 500 students for now. The quota will increase when we expand and grow.
We have three facilitates for now; faculty of Natural and Applied Sci­ences, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences and faculty of Hu­manities. Within these three facul­ties, we have nine (9) departments and 11 programmes. We are look­ing forward to improving in our programmes and also the possibili­ty of making the department of Po­litical Sciences to become Depart­ment of Political Science and public Administration, because people are calling to know if we have these causes. We try to find out what people need and try to incorpo­rate them in our programmes.
Your employer, Daddy Hezeki­ah, is a Philanthropist and most students in the university are on scholarship. Is that why you are facing the challenge of finance to run the university?
You are right because our uni­versity is one of the cheapest pri­vate universities in the country for now. The school fee is N350,000 but the promoter, Daddy Hezekiah, a philanthropist, has granted partial scholarship to all the students. He promised to pay N100,000 to the first 500 students and he did exact­ly that to those already in the pro­gramme.
We are not-raising much from school fees. For now, we are relying heavily on his benevolence, hoping that with time, we will be there. We want to introduce Joint Universi­ty Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB) founded by a Consortium of about 11 Federal Universities to­gether with JAMB and over 30 Ni­gerian Universities have affiliated with JUPEB programme.
JUPEB is a foundation course (a one-year programme) if one fin­ishes it and writes certified exam and passes, it qualifies the person to enter into any Nigerian University that subscribes to the programme. It means that one can come in as a 200 level student. We have applied to JUPEB. The first set of JUPEB graduates were admitted in direct entry in 2004 and it rotates. By the time it comes around, we will be joining. A team of JUPEB has al­ready visited the university and we are expecting a feedback from them and I am convinced they are satis­fied with what they saw.

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/04/Hezekiah-University--The-only-Nigerian-University-where-the-Vice-Chancellor-lectures/

What is the progress level of industries taken over by the Okorocha administration like Mbano Ceremics and marble, Inyinshi Aluminium etc. I just hope Okorocha takes his Factory and Jobs mantra seriously.

Abagworo:
You get dividends of your effort after a while as the system has to be prepared. His predecessors did not lay solid foundation but his own foundation is beginning to yield desired fruits in his 2nd tenure and I believe this is a tip of the iceberg on what is to come later.

The money will be mismanaged by Buhari and his bigoted and evil minded travellers.

THE IGNORANT AND BIGOTED TYRANNT WE HAVE AS PRESIDENT WILL NOT LISTEN.

Nice One. This is article is true to an extent.

ALA IMO STATE WU OKE MBA !!! IMO STATE THE HEART OF THE EAST IS ON THE RIGHT PART TO INDUSTRIALIZATION.


BG Technical Inaugurates Multi Billion Naira First Pipeline Pigging Products Factory in West Africa in Owerri, Imo State

April 12, 2016

Ejiofor Alike

BG Technical Limited, 100 per cent indigenous firm has completed and inaugurated first pipeline, pigs and accessories factory in Nigeria and West Africa.

The inauguration of the factory located in Owerri, Imo State, was performed at the weekend by the Acting Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Patrick Daziba and the Group General Manager of the National Petroleum and Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), represented by Mr. James Jock.

The factory is expected to generate foreign exchange for Nigeria and help to provide quality products for the maintenance of pipeline so as to prolong life span and reduce cases of pipeline rupture as well as leakages.

The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, represented by the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Mr. Tunde Adelana disclosed that the multibillion Naira factory was another evidence and validation that the efforts of the board was paying off in real terms in the oil and gas industry. This, he said is another attestation to the fact that Nigerians can develop the required industry capability once the enabling environment is in place.

“The opening of the factory is indeed worthy of celebration. Looking back at the years of pre-NOGICD Act, investors like B.G Technical would probably not be able to compete in the area of pigging services due to the preponderance of foreign goods and services,” he noted.

“ I would like to encourage other companies across sector to always strive to develop their capacities and capabilities-human and structural-as the focus of local content development is not to compromise quality but to ensure that work done by local companies can compete with that of their counterparts in any part of the world,” he added.

In his speech, Jock, said NNPC had the mandate to utilise local resources in the execution of projects in the upstream sector in line with the NOGIC Act.

“ My commitment from NAPIMS is that we are going to support B.G Technical so that the investment made to domesticate technology and create jobs in-country would not go down the drain,” he said.
The Chairman of Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Bank-Anthony Okoroafor said the opening of the factory owned by one of the members was a plus for the association as frontline in the push for domestication of technology in Nigerian oil and gas industry.
He said the association was happy with one of the members making such a huge investment as the only way to empower Nigerians.

“This is the only way Nigeria can grow her gross domestic product (GDP), preserve the foreign currency earnings and create jobs for the populace. It is an exciting time and PETAN will continue to dedicate time and resources needed to promote domesticate technology,” he assured.

In his remarks, the General Manager, Nigerian Content, Shell Petroleum Development Company Mr. Chiedu Oba commended the management and staff of B.G Technical for the commitment towards the establishment of the factory with huge resources at a time of economic downturn.

Earlier in his address, the Managing Director B.G Technical, Mr. Geoff Onuoha said the factory was initiated to bring an end to the importation of pipeline pigging products, boost availability of mainly quality products and help to preserve foreign exchange earnings for operators and the federal government.
Onuoha lamented that the challenge facing indigenous manufacturers in Nigeria was that it was cheaper to transport goods from United Kingdom (UK) to Gabon than from Nigeria to Gabon because of the bottlenecks of export from getting regular transport.

“Between UK and Gabon there are possibly three to four cargo flights a week. While between Nigeria and Gabon there is no cargo flight. So, cargo flight drops your cost drastically. Those are things that count and I believe with time those factors militating against us will become a thing of the past overcome,” he added.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/12/bg-technical-inaugurates-first-pipeline-pigging-products-factory-in-wafrica/

Even though i praise Gov Obiano for his efforts I am quite disgusted at the level of hypocrisy displayed by some Anambra peeps when the gigantic Imo Mall was commissioned. You lots came to that thread and said all rubbish without thinking. Anyway, this is a good development Awka and Nnewi mall should be completed before Christmas.

BG Technical Inaugurates First Pipeline Pigging Products Factory in West Africa in Imo State
April 12, 2016

Ejiofor Alike

BG Technical Limited, 100 per cent indigenous firm has completed and inaugurated first pipeline, pigs and accessories factory in Nigeria and West Africa.

The inauguration of the factory located in Owerri, Imo State, was performed at the weekend by the Acting Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Patrick Daziba and the Group General Manager of the National Petroleum and Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), represented by Mr. James Jock.

The factory is expected to generate foreign exchange for Nigeria and help to provide quality products for the maintenance of pipeline so as to prolong life span and reduce cases of pipeline rupture as well as leakages.

The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, represented by the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Mr. Tunde Adelana disclosed that the multibillion Naira factory was another evidence and validation that the efforts of the board was paying off in real terms in the oil and gas industry. This, he said is another attestation to the fact that Nigerians can develop the required industry capability once the enabling environment is in place.

“The opening of the factory is indeed worthy of celebration. Looking back at the years of pre-NOGICD Act, investors like B.G Technical would probably not be able to compete in the area of pigging services due to the preponderance of foreign goods and services,” he noted.

“ I would like to encourage other companies across sector to always strive to develop their capacities and capabilities-human and structural-as the focus of local content development is not to compromise quality but to ensure that work done by local companies can compete with that of their counterparts in any part of the world,” he added.

In his speech, Jock, said NNPC had the mandate to utilise local resources in the execution of projects in the upstream sector in line with the NOGIC Act.

“ My commitment from NAPIMS is that we are going to support B.G Technical so that the investment made to domesticate technology and create jobs in-country would not go down the drain,” he said.
The Chairman of Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Bank-Anthony Okoroafor said the opening of the factory owned by one of the members was a plus for the association as frontline in the push for domestication of technology in Nigerian oil and gas industry.
He said the association was happy with one of the members making such a huge investment as the only way to empower Nigerians.

“This is the only way Nigeria can grow her gross domestic product (GDP), preserve the foreign currency earnings and create jobs for the populace. It is an exciting time and PETAN will continue to dedicate time and resources needed to promote domesticate technology,” he assured.

In his remarks, the General Manager, Nigerian Content, Shell Petroleum Development Company Mr. Chiedu Oba commended the management and staff of B.G Technical for the commitment towards the establishment of the factory with huge resources at a time of economic downturn.

Earlier in his address, the Managing Director B.G Technical, Mr. Geoff Onuoha said the factory was initiated to bring an end to the importation of pipeline pigging products, boost availability of mainly quality products and help to preserve foreign exchange earnings for operators and the federal government.
Onuoha lamented that the challenge facing indigenous manufacturers in Nigeria was that it was cheaper to transport goods from United Kingdom (UK) to Gabon than from Nigeria to Gabon because of the bottlenecks of export from getting regular transport.

“Between UK and Gabon there are possibly three to four cargo flights a week. While between Nigeria and Gabon there is no cargo flight. So, cargo flight drops your cost drastically. Those are things that count and I believe with time those factors militating against us will become a thing of the past overcome,” he added.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/12/bg-technical-inaugurates-first-pipeline-pigging-products-factory-in-wafrica/

ALA IMO STATE WU OKE MBA !!! IMO STATE THE HEART OF THE EAST IS ON THE RIGHT PART TO INDUSTRIALIZATION.


BG Technical Inaugurates Multi Billion Naira First Pipeline Pigging Products Factory in West Africa in Owerri, Imo State

April 12, 2016

Ejiofor Alike

BG Technical Limited, 100 per cent indigenous firm has completed and inaugurated first pipeline, pigs and accessories factory in Nigeria and West Africa.

The inauguration of the factory located in Owerri, Imo State, was performed at the weekend by the Acting Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Patrick Daziba and the Group General Manager of the National Petroleum and Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), represented by Mr. James Jock.

The factory is expected to generate foreign exchange for Nigeria and help to provide quality products for the maintenance of pipeline so as to prolong life span and reduce cases of pipeline rupture as well as leakages.

The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, represented by the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Mr. Tunde Adelana disclosed that the multibillion Naira factory was another evidence and validation that the efforts of the board was paying off in real terms in the oil and gas industry. This, he said is another attestation to the fact that Nigerians can develop the required industry capability once the enabling environment is in place.

“The opening of the factory is indeed worthy of celebration. Looking back at the years of pre-NOGICD Act, investors like B.G Technical would probably not be able to compete in the area of pigging services due to the preponderance of foreign goods and services,” he noted.

“ I would like to encourage other companies across sector to always strive to develop their capacities and capabilities-human and structural-as the focus of local content development is not to compromise quality but to ensure that work done by local companies can compete with that of their counterparts in any part of the world,” he added.

In his speech, Jock, said NNPC had the mandate to utilise local resources in the execution of projects in the upstream sector in line with the NOGIC Act.

“ My commitment from NAPIMS is that we are going to support B.G Technical so that the investment made to domesticate technology and create jobs in-country would not go down the drain,” he said.
The Chairman of Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Bank-Anthony Okoroafor said the opening of the factory owned by one of the members was a plus for the association as frontline in the push for domestication of technology in Nigerian oil and gas industry.
He said the association was happy with one of the members making such a huge investment as the only way to empower Nigerians.

“This is the only way Nigeria can grow her gross domestic product (GDP), preserve the foreign currency earnings and create jobs for the populace. It is an exciting time and PETAN will continue to dedicate time and resources needed to promote domesticate technology,” he assured.

In his remarks, the General Manager, Nigerian Content, Shell Petroleum Development Company Mr. Chiedu Oba commended the management and staff of B.G Technical for the commitment towards the establishment of the factory with huge resources at a time of economic downturn.

Earlier in his address, the Managing Director B.G Technical, Mr. Geoff Onuoha said the factory was initiated to bring an end to the importation of pipeline pigging products, boost availability of mainly quality products and help to preserve foreign exchange earnings for operators and the federal government.
Onuoha lamented that the challenge facing indigenous manufacturers in Nigeria was that it was cheaper to transport goods from United Kingdom (UK) to Gabon than from Nigeria to Gabon because of the bottlenecks of export from getting regular transport.

“Between UK and Gabon there are possibly three to four cargo flights a week. While between Nigeria and Gabon there is no cargo flight. So, cargo flight drops your cost drastically. Those are things that count and I believe with time those factors militating against us will become a thing of the past overcome,” he added.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/12/bg-technical-inaugurates-first-pipeline-pigging-products-factory-in-wafrica/

Is Umunelu in Imo State ? I thought it is Rivers State.

ROYALD:
Imo go better

Imo to represent Nigeria in Slovakia for the 2016 world schools debate

Students from Imo state will be representing Nigeria in the 2016 World Schools Debate that will hold in Slovakia late this year. The students qualified to represent the country in the inter-continental academic event after they had emerged the overall winner at the president’s Inter-SUBEBS debate completion in the country.

Miss Precious Nnabugo, precious Etoh, Favour Nneji, Oluebube Duru and Goodness Nwanebu had represented Imo state in the President’s Inter-SUBEBS Debate Competition and they came first out of the thirty six states in the country that took part in the academic venture, with the team and their handlers visiting Governor Rochas Okorocha, Monday, March 28, 2016 to inform him about the lofty development.

Addressing the students and their coordinators, Governor Okorocha commended them for doing the state proud and also urged them to do the nation proud by emerging the best in Slovakia, stressing that their winning the President’s Inter-SUBEBS Debate competition was a victory for Imo people and a kind of vote of confidence in the free education programme of his administration.

Governor Okorocha’s words, “let me say first of all, how happy I am that in my time my children will be representing the entire nation outside the country. This is a victory for me, victory for Imo people and victory for the free education programme of the state.”

He continued, “There is no other way to explain this development than to say, it is the outcome of the free education programme of the state. It is a feat. I charge you to go and conquer the world for the nation, as you conquered the nation for the state. Go and shine in Slovakia.”

To encourage the students to do well in Slovakia, the governor promised to give them scholarship to study in any country of their choice if they come first.

The coordinator, Mrs.Adim Madumere Chinwe had earlier commended the governor for the free education programme, promising to leave no stone unturned to ensure that the team shines in Slovakia to the extent of emerging victorious.

http://imostategovernment..com.ng/2016/03/imo-to-represent-nigeria-in-slovakia.html