₦airaland Forum

femisplash:
With the US, UAE very much invested in this project as well as top global financiers such as the Islamic Development Bank, OPEC fund, European Investment Bank, the project could be said to be as good as done. Conceptualized in 2016, nine years after, the source of funding for its take off is pretty much settled. For many reasons, this project pushes Nigeria as a frontier, it is going to boost Nigeria's economic power. Russia is not only a military power but its gas resources makes her a major economic power house, despite tons of sanctions aimed at suppressing her earning power, Russia is still holding strongly. Europe's demand for her gas is a no brainer to the extent to which Russia is staying afloat the tons of sanctions imposed on her, in the process, improving her local currency to boot.
In the same vein, Nigeria promises to hold an economic bargaining power in the near future.
Europe is going to be a winner as much as African nations by which this project will certainly improves regional energy access, regional integration, as well as regional trade.
However, this must not be confused with Nigeria-Algeria gas pipeline project. This is also another $10billion gas pipeline project known as the Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline deal which would see gas pumped through the undersea Mediterranean pipeline, transmitted to Italy, Spain and other parts of Europe. It could also be loaded into liquified natural gas tankers or vessels for exports. This pipeline passes through Niger Republic to Algeria - one of the largest gas deposit in Africa behind Nigeria.
In conclusion, Nigeria is running two mega pipeline projects side by side, a $25b gas project to Morocco and a $10billion gas project to Algeria.

It appears that Morocco is now the driver of the project, looking at the Phase 1 of the projecf

World Bank, always speaking from both sides of their mouth.

Majorly due to job and school requirements.

Have a fruitful and peaceful Hajj, brethren

Jazakumullahu khayran. May Allah bless us with upright offsprings

Uba Sani facilitated the loan while Elrufai was in power. Today, it's come back to haunt him and he's sponsoring media attacks against his estranged former boss.
To be fair to Elrufai, he promised to undertake URBAN renewal and he picked a city in each of the senatorial zone - Kaduna in Zone 2,Zaria in Zone 1& Kafanchan in Zone 3. And he did fairly well in execution of the projects therein. The urban renewal program was more about roads than any other infrastructure. But in terms of renovation of hospitals and schools, all parts of the state benefited. One good thing with Elrufai was he gave the chairmen a free hand with their finances. For the first time in many years, the serious ones amongst them were able to execute projects in their localities.
I don't support dollarised loans but Uba Sani is reaping what he sowed and fertilised

Good of him. Though 2045 no be here o.

Tinubu has successfully weakened the matrices of LP and PDP. I see no window for their recovery

NCE is the have been made worthless by our terrible education system. A Grade 2 (graduate of teachers college) of those days is more sound compared to an average NCE graduate of today. The malaise is gradually been transmitted to B.Ed

Tinubu is tactically prioritizing Lagos projects far above others

Land grabbers supported by the evil United States. They will not succeed. Palestinians are no pushovers. They might not have the weapons, the backing of world superpowers but they are an epitome of dedication and resilience. It's interesting how the world is looking askance while scores of innocent people are killed in broad daylight

The pictures say the contrary

Streetinvestor2:
That was the target from on set. The other part na political stories a d campaign

You get the plot. BAT only appended 'Calabar' to the project to give it legitimacy by the public. He knows the outrage that'd have followed a contract award to build a <150km road at 2+ trillion Naira.

It is good to take ownership if govt is not forthcoming. Can you post the before & after pictures of the villages turned towns?

I feel it is wrong to end the scheme. What it needs is a thorough review. The program should be refocused on only STEM courses. There's no way you can tell me that Chinese universities don't offer better engineering programs than ours. Send students meritoriously to the likes of China and Turkey and you'll see wonders.

Let's get it clear . NMDPRA, the independent regulator that oversees refineries, reported that PH and Warri were active in Q1 2025 but the latter shut down in January. The shutdown was as a result of the malfunction of a sub unit of the distillation section, the main heater. Why then is this so called energy expert spewing an ultra pessimistic view that the refineries will never be back? In his warped logic, it's better to build a new 60k bpd refinery than to rehabilitate a combined 445k bpd capacity refineries. Even if the govt owned refineries were to operate at 50% of their capacity, it is more cost effective to go for the latter option.
I know we have a big trust deficit in relation to our govt. But it's good separate reality from fiction

The Prof seems to be Igbo, which punctures the argument that his tribe is been discriminated against in the military. The Chief of Air Staff is a Hausa man and he approved the promotion without considering wherever the Prof came from. T

A good one from NAF

NwokoloOwa:
Wike is a very active and proactive human being. He covers all angles. I like him for that. He also has his ears, eyes, legs, arms are just everywhere.

I was at the ICC late last to enquire using there for a conference and was highly disappointed at the pace of work and even the finishings. Julius Bergers involvement in contracts in Nigeria should be reevaluated. They have grown so big and now clearly working in cross purpose with government. It's same thing they did with Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway until the government through Umahi revoked a part of the contract.

On the other hand I doff my hat for the Chinese guys CGC, very consistent and diligent in their delivery of projects nationwide. They are really doing great jobs in Abuja and other parts of the country and with less noise and grandstanding.

Forget about what Umahi is blabbing about that Abuja Kano road, Julius Berger did a good job there. Perhaps the best or second in the country.

Releasing their arrears after the value has been eroded. Before our eyes, lecturers and professors are becoming paupers. A free advice to ASUU, when next you're fighting fight for the welfare of your members and not the university infrastructure.

That's why the quota system should be reviewed. We can't be wasting job slots because some people are tired being Nigerians. The height of patriotism is putting one's life in the service of the country, and its main arena is the military. Thus, any demography that doesn't believe in serving the military doesn't believe in the country as a whole.

stagger:
Oga, for how long do we keel maintaining roads built in the 1970s? New ones have to be built.

That's true. We should completed reconstruct the old ones and widen them. After a significant achievement doing that, we can go start building greenfield roads through virgin territories

Obaofaba:
Once it's completed, you can be using the existing one.

E no be by force Mr 16 century.

I'm glad you put a conditional phrase up there, remember to quote once the condition is net so that we can know the duration and funds spent

[quote author=PressMyButton post=135013147][/quote]Super highway abi super conduits for siphoning funds? Make a good fix of the existing infrastructure rather than starting new ones.

Putinofrussia:
Leave religion out of it.Nobody made the Sultan the leader of all Muslims in Nigeria.
Ooni of Ife is more influential than the Sultan because his influence is beyond Nigeria.
He is the only king that has influence beyond Nigeria,up to Cuba,Brazil etc.He is well revered even without the influence of the FG.

For your information, the FG/colonialists only waned the influence of the sultan. His mandate extends into parts of Niger Republic. We should also note that being influential beyond the shores of the country doesn't mean that one will is the most influential within the country. The Yorubas reached places in the Americas due to the Atlantic slave trade

Obviously the list was compiled by a Yoruba. The person biasely populated the top spots with Yoruba monarchs. There's absolutely no monarch that is as influential as Sultan of Sokoto who is the leader of all muslims in Nigeria. Traditionally, all the northern emirs defer to him including the influential emir of Kano.
The next in position should be Ooni of Ife because the whole Yoruba race defer to him. The Oba of Benin follows up close because the Binis are not as populous as the Yorubas.

BAT and his people thrive on propaganda. BH was decimated during Buhari admin. They shouldn't give them an inch to resurrect.

Think9ja:
I don't understand this country at all.

How can you blame a lawmaker for a security issue? Tinubu controls the Police, DSS, Nigerian Army, National Intelligence Agency, Civil Defence, Customs, Immigration and every other security architecture in Nigeria, but it is Ndume that should be ashamed that 120k southern Borno people are in IDP camps? What level of ignorance is this?

He went further to say he should mention projects he has done for his people. For goodness sake what kind of project is he talking about?

The other day the clowns on Arise TV are saying Senator Imasuen didn't do the road to his house. Only Abati reminded them that that is not the job of a lawmaker.

Senator Akpoti started a medical outreach programme for her constituents and people on nairaland are saying she's the best senator.

Asin, which kind school we de go for this country sef? So many so called graduates from the so called top universities don't even know what a lawmaker should do and shouldn't do. And when those lawmakers pad budget, you turn around to call them all sorts of names.

Where do you expect them to get money for all these projects?

A senator's job is to make laws and perform oversight functions. Anything else is out of magnanimity.

I swear a lot of Nigerians are not properly educated

Oga Nigerians have changed the functions of federal legislators. The job is no more gauged by lawmaking but by number of projects the lawmaker attracts to his constituency. It's quite unfortunate

Good move. If the Niger Delta states were serious, they should have acquired oil mining licenses several years ago. Just imagine the revenue boost for a state which has a company that produces 50k barrels per day! No be everyday you go dey blame FG

DeOTR:
I'm not sure this is the number of generated NIN. It's possible to enroll multiple times, you can only get a single NIN out of any multiple enrollment. I maintain that there's no way Kano State is up to 10million in population

Yes. There's no way Lagos is up to 12 million except if they are counting the fishes in the lagoon.

RepoMan007:
Kano is a border town/state with lots of immigrant(hausa speaking). That has also influenced settling patterns.

Kano is not a border state

Buhari friend