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2) Name: Confluence Stadium
Capacity:20,000 all seater
Roof: Partially covered
cost:N3.42 Billion
Turf: Artificial/synthetic
Location: Lokoja,Kogi State
Others: Electronic Scoreboard/ flood light
Contractor:?

katsina stadium

It seems that State Government across the nation have finally woken up to the challenge of providing good sport venues/infrastructures in the country, I was watching the NGGT in Kogi and was impressed with their stadium.
If you are a sport lover and happy about the new trend in sport development in nigeria you are welcome to post images of the various stadia under construction in the Country on this thread for am not sure if the ones am about to post is a conclusive list,If you know any that i omitted or you have better images please feel free to contribute.

Welcome! we rarely have things to celebrate in this country but i believe we should celebrate this.

First is Katsina state stadium.
Capacity :35,000
Roof: partially covered
Cost:?
Turf:artificial
Location:Katsina State
contractor:CCECC
Name: Karakanda Stadium in hausa/Rhinocerus stadium in English

In a bid to become a significant contributor to the future development of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria, a wholly owned subsidiary of Heritage Oil Plc has entered into a joint venture agreement with Bayelsa Oil Company Limited, owned by the Bayelsa State government, to establish an indigenous Nigerian oil company called Petrobay Energy Limited.

Heritage will obtain a 45 percent equity interest in Petrobay which combines Bayelsa Oil Company’s network of longstanding relationships in Nigeria with Heritage’s strong technical track record, diverse geographic expertise and financial capability. A number of upstream assets in the state of Bayelsa and the larger Niger Delta region have been identified and Petrobay will engage in both bilateral and competitive auction processes to acquire these licenses.

Tony Buckingham, chief executive officer, said in a statement posted on the company’s website: “Heritage Oil is honoured to be entering into a commercial strategic alliance with the state of Bayelsa through the joint venture, Petrobay, with Bayelsa Oil Company. Petrobay will be uniquely positioned to acquire and develop hydrocarbon assets in the Niger Delta, where we can bring exploration and production expertise that, harnessed with the energy and aspirations of the people and state of Bayelsa, will generate value and benefits for all stakeholders. Petrobay will develop close relationships with local communities and other stakeholders in the Niger Delta in recognition of the key role their support plays in securing assets and delivering safe, stable and productive operations. This alliance reinforces Heritage’s commitment to a country with huge potential and the Company is well placed to play a significant role in the future oil and gas industry in Nigeria.”

Henry Seriake Dickson, Governor of Bayelsa State, said: “At a time when people are divesting oil assets in this area, no mention is made of our involvement. Today, that era of standing by and non-participation has ended. What we have signed is going to blossom and move from strength to strength and be strong enough to compete favourably with other competitors in the upstream and downstream sectors of the industry. Let me announce to all those stakeholders in the industry that Bayelsa State is ready for active participation in the oil and gas industry.”

Petrobay will enable Heritage to build upon its current interests in Nigeria. Heritage’s footprint in Nigeria was established in November 2012 on the completion of the acquisition of a major interest in OML 30 through its interest in Shoreline Natural Resources Limited. Shoreline acquired a 45 percent interest in OML 30 for cash consideration of $850 million, with the National Petroleum Development Company holding the remaining 55 percent interest.
http://businessdayonline.com/2013/11/heritage-bayelsa-oil-company-mull-new-oil-firm/

wirinet: This Nigerian so called federation should be called a voodoo federation. So the federal government just call the states and tell them this is your share of this month's oil receipts without showing the revenue profile of the federation or where the money is coming from. Because obviously tge governors have no idea of how much money they are entitled to or whether the money is coming from the federation account, the excess crude account or even President Jona's personal account.
If the excess crude account is supposed to belong to all three tiers of government ( as savings for the rainy day), how come the federal government shared it without informing the states where the money is coming from? they most likely assumed the money being shared must have come from the regular monthly oil receipts.

Even the national assembly have no idea of what is going on with the national finances. Left to me we should not waste time and so much money pretending we are operating a democracy and just have the president as absolute monarchy, who can do and undo and is not accountable to anybody.

I thought Tompolo and co have been contracted with billions of naira to protect our pipe lines and water ways, how come oil theft is such a problem that is causing us such huge shortfalls in our revenue?

what do you think is the purpose of the FEC meetings? do you think its only to share and recieve checks? That is the venue in which all the revenue profiles, receipts and all are discused and disclosed. Is Amaechi not part of the FEC? stop propagating lies to cover for this insincere governor.

In just a matter of 18 months Amaechi's politics will be tested at the polls and all this his APC leaning gra gra and his SS sabouterism tendencies will be judged by the Nigerian people at the poll.

Politics is not only about dancing Skelewu but also about strategic thinking.

When Tinumbu was opposing Obasanjo's administration in the early 2000s he did that first because he was an opposition party gov. and also he was protecting the SW regional interest.

Which regional interest is Amaechi protecting? and Amaechi is a member of PDP same as the ruling party.

This only shows what a selfish politician Amaechi is, it will be interesting to see Amaechi fight against the interest of his region/family and win soon time will tell.

wiseguy: So because fg released the statement we automatically believe it to be true. Not just Amaechi, most govs have in recent times queried the state of our economy and accrued revenue.
We need to ask some questions:
1. Why is there a shortfall when oil revenue has not gone below the budgeted benchmark?
2. Are the states aware that the amount being disbursed is from the ECA?

Have you herd of nigeria losing money due to oil theft? or you only have selective hearing.

donedy: Please help me preach this brother with complicated complex.

Yeah,If God wanted everyone in the world to look the same, dress the same, speak the same language etc. he would have created us all the same.
We should all learn to embrace our differences and be proud of who we are and our heritage and stop self hate.

fatwallet: Thats why other countries dont take Nigeria seriously.you have a president wearing cowboy hat and gown from 18century ,the soccer players jerseys are extra large and obstructs flexibility,the police uniforms are extra large for the skinny officers,Most Nigerian police officers have very bad body odour.
Until africa get our poo right we will continue to be laughing stock of the world. Lets face it and stop deceiving ourselves :most of the traditional nigerian culture except the food are backward and incompatible with modern advanced and progressive society.do you see japanese wearing robes? are greeks still wearing robes? only africans are backward like this,we did not even explore beyond our villages .thank God for progressive cultures such as English,portuguese and japanese we would still be living in mud huts.
nigeria doesn't even have to invent anything all nigeria has to do is implement what has already been invented.
as an official language ,English,suit and tie is a universal language and dress code. majority of the streets and cities should be named in english after the geography and features. like Calabar,Port Harcourt , cross river state, ,Allen Avenue ,Talltree Road,Hillside Avenue,Uphill Road etc those names sound more appealing and non tribal.

nigeria also needs well planned and organized suburbs,buy all the lands,demolish everything and build modern homes and apartment buildings neatly. demolish all villages and move them to the cities.use the lands for commercial agriculture and wind turbines.

change the Naira to Nigerian Dollars

the only thing you failed to mention is that we should also all buy bleaching creams and bleach our black skin to white! what a slowpoke you are. Self hating black man.

APC=Bad looser, Because they did not win therefore the result should be canceled! nonsense. APC lost woefully as predicted.

uyo4

some of the housing estate built by the state govt. in Aks

franksunny: APC IS TAKING OVER, I AM NOT SAYING THEY ARE GOOD, BUT WE ARE GIVING THEM A TRIAL

in just a matter of hours you will see APC lose the election woefully as i predicted! watch out.

APC will fail woefully in Anambra!Am calling it right now

owolabifunke14: Is this april fool?

I wish it was but no, this guy is for real.and its november lol

a must watch video,Nigerian Lawmaker/ Congressman claiming that the oil in bayelsa belong to jigawa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6GGPu286U

all pictures above were captured from these video if you wanna see more cool roads/infrastructures in the state watch the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nzEDA0i4Q

[quote author=St. Edwin]The roads are the same. All the poster does is to take different shots of the same road at different angles. The bridge there is the same as the one in the opening page.....
This is just sheer deception and a propaganda to make Akpabio seem like he has been working when he hasn't done much.....[/quote]

finestprince: Pls try to write the names of the road or their location am in uyo wil luv 2 see some of this project tanks

has akpabio done anything in Akwa ibom state? haters like you are blinded by your political bias, so much that you are disassociated from reality even when it stares at you.

iterator25: @ujoinme - pls post pictures of the new stadium

Updates on the new stadium projects are posted on this page as the pics are made available you just have to go back some pages on the thread and check it. or check this thread that is exclusively on the new akwa ibom stadium https://www.nairaland.com/1339184/finallyan-ultra-modern-stadium-being-built

APC will fail woefully in Anambra!

uyo3

excellent road network in Uyo Akwa Ibom state,Nigeria

pic 2,3 and 4 = ikot ekpene plaza

More of akwa ibom

pic 1= new bridge @ Abak built by berger nearing completion

abialic: Meet ur former classmates here: www.facebook.com/mbhsoron

Thanks for the link to the schools website, its great to know that there are a few decent structures left in the school. thank you.

uyo 3

uyo 1

was trying my hands on the image capture from video. the images are terrible, sorry about the quality lol but like anything i will get better.

Nearly three hundred Liberian refugees in Nigeria flew home on Monday, October 28, 2013, on two chartered Arik Air flights from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos under the sponsorship of the Government of Japan and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Excited about finally returning home, many had lived at the Oru Refugee Camp, Ijebu-Ode, in Southwestern Nigerian State of Ogun since the outbreak of the Liberian civil war in 1990. The IOM classified them as stranded Liberian migrants who had not benefitted from UNHCR's coverage.

Weeks before their departure, the Embassy of Liberia in Abuja and the IOM screened the migrants and supervised their medical checkup and vaccination at the Oru Camp.

Upon arrival in Liberia, each migrant received US$275.00 from the IOM: $200 as reintegration package and $75.00 for local transportation.

The migrants were full of praises for the Governments of Liberia and Japan for making the trip home possible. Most of them have made plans to establish small businesses with their resettlement money.

Mamie Attia, a single mother with four children who acquired catering skills in Nigeria,plans to open a restaurant: "my children father passed away... I am now the mother and father and it's not easy on me. If not government brought the opportunity I don't know how I would have gone home.I will open my restaurant with the money and send my children to school."

Another migrant, Fatu Lamadine, described life as a refugee as "sometimes good sometimes bad". Fatu, who returned home after living for six years in Nigeria, was also grateful to the Government of Liberia for the repatriation exercise.

I have been in Abuja several times over the past couple of months, looking at proposed new hotel projects there – just ideas at present, and it will be several years before any of them are ready to welcome you.

For those who don’t know Abuja, it is the capital of Nigeria – Lagos was the capital until 1991, when the government moved north, to the centre of the country. They started planning the city in the 1970s, started construction in earnest in the 1980s, and are still building today. Whilst commercial activity is at a low level compared with Lagos, Abuja is the administrative and political heart of the country. If you are doing business with the federal government, which controls vast swathes of the economy, then you have to visit Abuja. And if you want to meet a minister, well, the wait can be measured in days! Abuja is also a good place to waylay the state governors, who are frequent visitors, as it is from the centre that funds are doled out to the regions.

For all of these reasons, it’s strange then that in the capital city of Africa’s most populous nation, there is not, currently, a single internationally-branded hotel under construction. Plans aplenty, and that’s where we come in, but nothing on-site. Not that there aren’t several other, non-branded hotels on the way. The Ibeto Hotel, in the Gudu district, is due to open very soon, and from what I saw of it recently, it should be a really nice hotel. The AES Suites has opened in Jabi, and although somewhat eccentric in terms of the design (it’s obviously designed only for short people, as even I had to duck when I went through any doorway), and ignoring the ridiculous hype about it being a ‘6-star’ hotel, it’s an acceptable mid-scale hotel.

- See more at: http://www.businesstravellerafrica.co.za/archive/2013/august-2013/industry-comment/an-eye-on-west-africa#sthash.czjG9XHS.dpuf

According to eTurboNews, Alex Van Elk, Managing Director of Arik Air, believes in the future of a profitable low-cost airline in Nigeria.

The Dutch-born Van Elk said that he was already mobilising French investors for that purpose. Although he would not disclose the name of the new airline for now, he promised that it would become operational in the next 10 months.

According to Van Elk, "we have made contact with Nigerian authorities and they are quite pleased with our plans and assured us of government support".

He stressed that the airline would succeed because it would be devoid of the mistakes associated with most Nigerian airlines, such as poor revenue accounting, acquisition of aging aircraft, lack of good reservation systems, heavy cost of overheads and ambitious route networks. The emerging low-cost carrier he said would not venture into unprofitable routes and would be run professionally with the right calibre of staff.

He also disclosed that the airline was consultations with big carriers in Europe, Asia and Africa for interline arrangements, stressing that the responses had been very encouraging.

Van Elk further added that the airline fare would be very affordable, but noted that there would be no in-flight refreshment.



- See more at: http://www.businesstravellerafrica.co.za/news/arik-boss-to-start-low-cost-airline#sthash.qZ9HlvSJ.dpuf