"As of year-end 2020, the original scope of 10.7km [of the] Second Niger Bridge is at 53% completion with a completion target of 2022."
"The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is at 66% completion and is expected to be completed in 2022."
"The initial scope of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway is at 66% completion. However please note that the scope of the project has been expanded from the rehabilitation of 92.5km along the 3 sections of the road, to full reconstruction of the entire stretch of 375km..." - @nsia_nigeria
"... as directed by Mr. President; this has extended the completion date. The NSIA is exploring options to shorten the completion timeline for the project." - @nsia_nigeria
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President Macron is convening a hybrid (virtual/in-person) summit on Financing African Economies, May 18, in Paris. France is pushing for greater financial support for African countries, against backdrop of Covid. President Buhari will be attending in person. #PMBinParis
“We are working for a new, more sustainable, more fair way to finance, to fund African economies. President Macron is organising a summit on this specific issue in May, which is very important for us.” — @franckriester, during his recent visit to Nigeria google.com/amp/s/www.thea…
Per @TheAfricaReport: ‘“We want to invest all over Nigeria, not only in Lagos or Abuja. Nigeria is a huge market,” says Riester. He also stressed that France wants to go farther beyond the Francophone parts of Africa, where it is already well represented.’
Patrick Nyamvumba, Rwanda’s chief of defence staff at the time, is a graduate of the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Ghana’s current Chief of Defence Staff, Vice Adm Seth Amoama was a member of Course 21 (2013) of the National Defence College, Abuja - & best all-round graduating student.
In 2019 (he was Navy Chief then) President Buhari presented him with the NDC’s Distinguished Alumnus award.
A 24/7 Command, Control, Communication, Computer, and Intelligence Centre (c4i) in Lagos, for intelligence gathering and data collection.
And ~600 specially-trained personnel — the Maritime Security Unit.
#DeepBlue will also secure the Secure Anchorage Areas (SAAs), which used to be under a controversial private security arrangement that cost users thousands of dollars per day in fees — and which President @MBuhari canceled earlier this year. google.com/amp/s/channel1…
Personal Opinion: Any conversation about devolution or restructuring, that does not have at its center NASS + State Houses of Assembly, is a waste of time. The only practical means of achieving these ends is by amending the Constitution—& only these Legislatures can effect that.
We can talk & talk & talk.
We can set up a million National Conferences, and pay generous sitting allowances and keep the newspapers occupied with juicy proceedings for months.
At end of day, if you can’t transmute all of these into Constitutional Amendments - waste of time!
Personal Opinion: Many of the shrillest voices on ‘Restructuring’ in Nigeria do not, deep down, really care about it
What they want is simply an opportunity to be able to wail eternally about it. It’s a nice topic that can keep u in news headlines indefinitely. (See Next tweet)
This week is Digital Switch Over in Lagos. Means Lagos is switching from Analogue to Digital Broadcasting. You’ll now need a Set-Top-Box (aka decoder) to access terrestrial TV.
UPSIDES: high-quality audio/video, more terrestrial channels, audience measurement for advertisers etc
It’s part of a worldwide shift from analogue TV broadcasting to digital. South Africa has just started, Zimbabwe too.
Nigeria started 2016, 6 States and FCT completed in phase 1, Lagos (April 29, 2021) marks the start of Phase 2.
President Buhari commends USA for returning to the Paris Climate Agreement. #ClimateLeadersSummit
As a vulnerable country, Nigeria has undertaken major environmentally- sound and climate-friendly programs, says PMB. Goal is to cut emission by 20% unconditionally and 45% conditionally by 2030. #ClimateLeadersSummit