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23 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
PMB has cancelled the Secure Anchorage Area (SAA) contract. An arrangement established by the previous Administration, in which vessels berthing in Nigeria paid money to a private company for security inside a ‘Secure Anchorage Area’ within Nigerian Ports. thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021…
“We felt that it wasn’t necessary for people to be paying money to secure their vessels on waters. It is the responsibility of @NigeriaGov through @NigerianNavy & @nimasaofficial to secure at zero cost to the owners.” — @hadizabalausman, MD, @nigerianports thecable.ng/hadiza-bala-us…
“Just between January and July (2020), OMSL received $17 million in revenue for securing vessels and none of those revenues went to the coffers of the federal government.” — @hadizabalausman
“We have given the directive to dismantle because it completely beats my mind how you can justify that activity.” — @hadizabalausman thecable.ng/hadiza-bala-us…

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tolu ogunlesi Profile picture
23 Jan
There’s a recurring misunderstanding/misinterpretation of public procurement numbers/costs, that does no one any good. If there’s going to be a debate let it at least be based on facts/reality not conjecture, not knee-jerk responses.

Another #thread 🙃
A few days ago I complained about a bad piece by @GuardianNigeria, in which they were busied themselves dividing distance by cost and then proceeding to make wild comparisons between rail projects. While also getting cost wrong in some cases.
The nuances of procurement, whether public or private sector, can hardly be accurately conveyed in your typical news headline, especially when headlines are driven mostly by virality ambitions. Always good to try and understand full picture before jumping to conclusions.
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23 Jan
More questions than answers here:

Story says man first flew from Lagos to Atlanta. Then from Detroit to Toronto.

Is that typical? Was there a scheduled stopover in Detroit, between Atlanta & Toronto?

Or was it 2 separate flights: Atlanta-Detroit & then Detroit-Toronto?

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Canada requires a negative Covid-test - so how did he board a flight from the US to Canada without a test?

Note that the US did not require a negative test for inbound travelers (except from the U.K.) at the time he flew. Can that explain anything?

Questions questions

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So I’ve just seen this: confirmation that Delta has an Atlanta to Toronto flight via Detroit. Highly probable it’s the route the man flew (as opposed to two separate flights)
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22 Jan
Some information about the just-launched E-ticketing platform for the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC)

#Thread
The contract is for the “Design, Development, Deployment and Management” of a “Secure Automated Fare Collection System” for the NRC.

According to @icrcng and @MinTransportNG, it’s a 10-year Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract, funded by the contractor, @secureidltd
“This is a PPP where the private sector will invest money to develop, deploy and operate an integrated ticketing solution.” — DG @icrcng on the day he presented the Full Business Case (FBC) Certificate for the concession of the E-ticketing system to @ChibuikeAmaechi, Sept 2019.
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21 Jan
There’s a significant new development in the education sector in Nigeria. Yest the Federal Cabinet approved an Executive Bill proposing a number of key reform items, covering new funding for teachers, extension of retirement age, etc. Bill will now be sent to NASS for passage.
What this Bill—Harmonized Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Bill 2020—is essentially trying to do is give full legal backing to a number of Teaching Sector reforms & incentives already approved by Pres @MBuhari in Sept 2020.

Here are some of those reforms & incentives:
Approved by PMB:

1. Extension of Teachers’ Retirement Age to 65 & Years of Service to 40, & introduction of a Special Teacher Pension Scheme

2. A new Special Salary Scale for teachers in Basic and Secondary Schools, incl special allowances for rural postings & science teachers
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19 Jan
Nigeria getting 100,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine—expected by early Feb—through #Covax facility. Will be stored in this Abuja facility (video). (Still a drop in the ocean, but negotiations ongoing to acquire more—with focus on the ones that can be stored at warmer temps).
Update here: @NigeriaGov through @NphcdaNG says it has capacity (cold chain) currently to store 400,000 Pfizer vaccines. The vaccine requires extremely low temperatures, so the 🇳🇬 focus is primarily on other vaccines that can be kept at warmer temperatures.
More information on Nigeria’s rollout of the first batch of Covid vaccines (Pfizer) arriving early February through the #Covax facility.

Speaking: @drfaisalshuaib, ED @NphcdaNG. He answers the question: who’s getting vaccinated first?
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19 Jan
Just seen a very poor piece from @GuardianNigeria. Trying to Compare rail projects while getting basic facts wrong & making embarrassingly pedestrian (no pun intended) points.

#LagosIbadanRail = 156km distance but actual rail length close to 400km because DOUBLE-track—not SINGLE
If you’re going to compare projects get the actual facts, don’t just bring calculator and be calculating nonsense upandahn, lol. So, for example Abuja-Kaduna is 186km distance but single track, while Lagos-Ibadan is shorter distance but double-track. That’s just one example.
Journalistic rigor and common sense demand that if you’re going to compare road or rail projects you can’t simply do ‘cost divided by distance’ and publish a story. Project specs for example have to matter: is it single/double tracks, for e.g. for rail, and No of lanes for roads.
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