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2 Mar, 7 tweets, 3 min read
NAIA for the arrival of Nigeria’s first batch of #COVID19 vaccines. #YesToCovid19Vaccine
Nigeria getting about 3,924,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in this first batch under the COVAX Facility. Will arrive around noon today. #YesToCovid19Vaccine
Vaccine Don Land. Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
#YesToCovid19Vaccine
More vaccines exiting the Emirates Boeing 777-300. #YesToCovid19Vaccine
The Vaccines.

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28 Feb
Prev tweet. This language thing fascinating. When you do transliteration of “Onion” from Arabic to English you get ‘basal’/ ‘basala’/ ‘al-basal’

Hausa lang. borrowed it almost intact as ‘Albasa’

Yoruba borrowed it as ‘Alubosa’ (cos Yoruba likes splitting consonants with vowels)
No doubt Yoruba did quite a bit of borrowing from Arabic and Hausa.
Where Yoruba has a clear lending edge is in words that have to do with partying and merrymaking lol. Hence why ‘Owambe’ and ‘Aso-Ebi’ have become universal ‘Nigerian’ language 😀
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25 Feb
MD @nigerianports, @hadizabalausman on Channels Sunrise now, speaking about port decongestion efforts. The new electronic call-up system, ETO launches on Saturday Feb 27.
The plan is for the electronic call-up system for trucks to work in conjunction with a network of approved Truck Parks (8 approved so far).
.@hadizabalausman: There will be glitches and teething issues in the deployment of the electronic call-up system, but we must start. We will address the issues as they arise.
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22 Feb
Last Thursday, @NigeriaGov and Siemens AG signed contract for the pre-engineering phase of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI). Recall that the FGN payment was approved last year. FGN has set up an SPV known as the FGN Power Company to work with Siemens to implement.
July 2020:
A recap of what the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) will cover. (Used to be known as the Nigeria Electrification Roadmap - NER).

Three (3) Phases in all:
1: Target of 7,000MW operational grid capacity
2: 11,000MW
3: 25,000MW
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18 Feb
The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Assessment (ESIA) of the proposed rehabilitation & reconstruction of the 1,443km Port-Harcourt—Maiduguri Narrow Gauge Railway (65 LGAs, 12 States) & accessories is now on display nationwide, for public input: ead.gov.ng/eastern-railwa…
The new proposed “accessories” to the PH-Maiduguri Line are as follows:

—Bonny-Onne-Elelenwo-Ubima-Owerri Branch Line in Rivers & Imo States

—Port Harcourt Industrial Park

—Bonny Deep Seaport (Capacity of 100,000DMT container vessel & 50,000DWT bulk vessel, on Bonny Island).
The revamped PH—Maiduguri Line will have the following additions constructed:

216km Gashua Branch Line: Goniri—Gashua narrow gauge

200km Kaduna Connecting line: Kafanchan—Rigachikun narrow gauge

35km Jos Branch line: Kuru—Jos n.g.

New Rigachikun & Assa Transshipment Stations.
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9 Feb
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
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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