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9 Feb

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You can watch the #KanoMaradiRail groundbreaking ceremony live on @NTANewsNow

#KanoMaradiLine is a standard gauge rail line; contractor is Portuguese firm, MOTA-ENGIL; cost is ~$1.9 billion.

This is the route: Kano-Danbatta-Kazaure-Daura-Mashi-Katsina-Jibiya- Maradi (Niger Republic) - 284km length — plus a 94km branch line to Dutse in Jigawa State.

#KanoMaradiRail

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7 Feb

@ChibuikeAmaechi

Minister of Transportation @ChibuikeAmaechi has just been a guest of @seunokin on Channels. Lots of interesting things said about rail and ports. Let me share the ones I can remember

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The $1.9bn Kano-Katsina-Maradi Line which will be flagged off this week (groundbreaking) by PMB is one of Nigeria’s strategic attempts to position itself to take advantage of Niger’s landlocked status. The line will connect from Kano to the Apapa Port in Lagos.

According to him, the financing being negotiated will come mostly from Europe.

Also, he says Maradi, the terminus of the line, is only 20km from the Nigerian border. Plan is for Maradi to have an Inland Port Complex that will process goods coming from or going to Apapa Port.

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6 Feb

I think the big lesson here is that this vaccine allocation and distribution is a ‘constantly developing situation.’ The media and everyone else must approach it with that context. Plans and strategies can change anytime, even while the ultimate goal remains the same.

@_AfricanUnion

So we’ve seen Covax modify initial distribution arrangement for Nigeria. But timelines so far intact.

Note that Covax is not the only facility Nigeria will be benefiting from, there’s also the @_AfricanUnion one (which I imagine’ll be discussed at ongoing 34th Assembly Session).

The WHO has also made it clear that there’s one milestone still to be crossed with the AZ vaccine - it has to be formally listed by it for emergency use. But this listing process is “ongoing” and outcome “expected soon.”

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29 Jan

@NigeriaGov

Opportunity Alert: @NigeriaGov’s Highway Development and Management Initiative (HDMI). Pay attention.

HDMI is a new program that has (in Phase 1) identified 10 Federal highways (= ~2,225 km) for private sector investment and participation.

According to @tundefashola:

#Thread

The 10 Federal highways in Phase 1 of the HDMI

The basic idea is to get the private sector to develop and manage key federal roads, as a way out of the funding limitations that have historically existed.

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28 Jan

So that’s how I went to Idu Station yesterday to see the new Automated Fare Collection system at work. Told that 85% of tickets bought for the 7am to KD were bought online. People are abandoning their initial skepticism and starting to trust the system more. Here’s what’s changed

Anyone familiar with rail travel between Kaduna and Abuja in the last few years is fully aware of just how stressful getting tickets can be. People showing up several hours ahead and not even sure they’ll get a ticket. A whole industry of touting arose to fill the gap. Naturally.

In Dec 2020, NRC finally launched its Automated Fare Collection (AFC) System, for the Abuja-Kaduna Line. The contract (I’ve talked about this in a previous thread) covers among other things Speedstiles, Validators and Ticket Vending machines at all the Stations. Rollout ongoing.

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26 Jan

Fulani man born in Abeokuta 47 years ago (to a father who moved there 80 years ago);speaks more fluent Yoruba than a lot of Yoruba people I know. These migration stories are far more common than we acknowledge; these are the narratives & reality we don’t highlight enough.
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Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in Zungeru, in today’s Niger State. As was Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, 29 years after Zik. Bola Ige’s memoir is titled Kaduna Boy for a reason. Their parents traveled far from ‘home’, in search of better lives, or simply pursuing business interests.

No, this is not a call to gloss over the very real ethnic and religious differences that exist, and the justifiable grievances that many hold, either inherited, or from personal experience. But those are not the only narratives that exist, or that should be actively promoted.

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