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6 Mar, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Infrastructure Updates #Nigeria:

FEC this week approved change of scope of 375km Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Expressway project from rehabilitation to full reconstruction (2 lanes per side).

Next week: Flag-off of #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail revamp (Nigeria’s Eastern Rail Corridor).
Look out for a call for Expressions of Interest (EoI) for @FMWHNIG’s Highway Development & Management Initiative (HDMI). A new @NigeriaGov scheme to get the private sector to invest in road maintenance and management. Phase 1 comprises 12 routes across Nigeria, totaling ~2,000km.
Find out more about the HDMI here (it’s a PPP so oversight belongs to @icrcng) icrc.gov.ng/fg-to-concessi…

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5 Mar
Decoration of new Service Chiefs, this morning at the State House; following NASS confirmation.

—Major-Gen Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff
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—Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff
—Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air Staff.
CDS LEO Irabor: Going from Maj Gen to 4-Star General.

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2 Mar
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
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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).
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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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