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Aug 26, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Will share highlights from this new presentation, delivered yesterday in Kano, by @tundefashola, at the 28th Meeting of the National Council on Works.

(As far as memorable phrases go, he's a champ. "Incremental Power", and now "Season of Completion")
One of the biggest changes PMB has brought to road #infrastructure in Nigeria is in the area of financing. A lot more financing available for roads, highways, bridges under PMB than prev govts (even when oil prices were $100-avg for years). #PIDFund #Sukuk #ExecOrder7
In 2015, outgoing govt budget 18 billion for all the Federal roads in Nigeria - less than even Lagos' roads budget for the year

In 2016, with an even lower avg oil price, new Govt budgeted 260B, & released 198B = 76%

2020, inside Covid, 227B budgeted for roads, 100% released!
PMB's is the first Federal Government in Nigeria to issue Sovereign #Sukuk. Four issuances so far, all for road infrastructure:

2017: 100B
2018: 100B
2020: 152B

Latest - 2021: 250B

Close to 2,000km of Federal road (reconstruction) achieved with Sukuk 1,2,3.

Source: @FMWHNIG
There's #ExecOrder7 as well, in two categories: the main category, that has companies like MTN, NLNG, Dangote Group participating (180km of road contracted so far), and the second category, which has @nnpclimited financing the reconstruction of 1,800km of roads across Nigeria.
Road Financing under Multilateral Loans/Grants.

Source: @FMWHNIG

-Mokwa-Bida
-Akure-Ilesha
-Joint Border Bridge at Mfum (Nigeria)/Ekok (Cameroon)
-Dualization of 221km Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi Road (road users have been testifying on Twitter to the progress being made).
According to @FMWHNIG,

All of these road construction/rehabilitation projects have created more than 300,000 jobs since 2016; reduced journey times significantly, and created tens of billions of naira in business for suppliers of diesel, cement, sand, laterite, steel, etc.
Major suppliers and sub-contractors benefited from 45 Billion Naira worth of business from Julius Berger alone in 2020.

That's money in the pockets of Nigerians. Hence why it's shameful and laughable when some people say you cannot grow/develop an economy with infrastructure.

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May 29
Been searching for National Anthem related stuff. And found this:
Competition Announcement for a National Anthem for Nigeria, published in FEDERAL NIGERIA Magazine, January 1959 edition
Closing: March 31, 1959. Prize: $280
Open to Nigerians & Non-Nigerians home & abroad.
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So, looks like there were 4 Competitions in all, in 1959, the year preceding Independence:

National Flag - Open to Nigerians only
National Anthem (lyrics) - Nigerians & Foreigners
National Anthem (music) - Nigerians & Foreigners
Independence Stamps

All with prizes attached. Image
Submissions came in for Nigeria's new (Independence) Anthem, from all over the world: USA, UK, Ghana, French Cameroons, Senegal, Algeria, Cyprus, South Africa, Belgium. Image
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Jan 12
A #thread of departing Ambassadors talking about Nigerian Food (and Pepper!!!).

Let’s start with France’s Emmanuelle Blatmann (2024):

“I will be very honest with you and blunt, I will not miss the pepper soup because it’s too peppery. You people tried to kill me several times. I will be eating all sorts of things with my eyes red and crying, I have smoke coming out of my ears. I am exaggerating but honestly, why do you put so much pepper? In the North, it’s better but in the South West, my God! But I like the jollof rice, I like the moimoi and the puff-puff.”

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Pirjo Suomela-Chowdhury (Finland) (2018):

“Nigerian food in general is spicier than food in Finland, but I do really enjoy suya, jollof rice, and pepper soup. My family has even ventured into things like giant snails and goat’s head (laughs).”

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Mary Beth Leonard, USA (2023)

“Great food. You know everybody loves their Suya and their jollof rice. And I am a big fan of pepper soup; I really like a lot of spice so I will bring that with me.”

“Nobody ever believes me when I say I like spicy food and a bit of pepper soup. But of course, you can’t be a Nigerian and not appreciate suya and jollof rice. I can say I had fun eating amala at Amala Skye in Ibadan with our visiting pianist who came last year. It was lovely.”



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Dec 4, 2023
Gather around, folks.

Would like to share excerpts from this recent speech ON INFRASTRUCTURE from Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, delivered at a Dinner in Lagos a few days ago.

He opened it guns blazing. Hit the ground firing.

This is a thread, so, stay with me. Image
But lest you think the speech was primarily about gbajue presidential candidates, it wasn’t.

It was instead about the power of infrastructure, why the @MBuhari Administration focused obsessively on it, and how heartwarming it is that @officialABAT is equally prioritizing it. Image
BRF outlines some of the prioritizing principles behind the Buhari Infrastructure Program:

—Roads leading to and out of Airports and Seaports

—Roads leading to international borders

—Bridges (the Buhari Admin delivered new bridges across Nigeria’s two main Rivers, Niger and Benue)

—Roads connecting critical agro-producing areas.

—Roads within tertiary educational institutions

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Sep 11, 2023
I want to tell the story of how this State House / Presidential Villa logo came to be. You may have seen it on some publicity materials (State House Press Briefing banner from prev admin, etc) from the State House.

It’s a thread. Image
Sometime in Feb 2016, shortly after I was appointed by PMB, I thought, everyone knows what the White House looks like, why isn’t there a similar visual equivalent - a symbol - for the Aso Rock Villa, seat of the Nigerian Presidency since 1991.
Good question, eh. Then a challenge came up. The White House is a single building, that houses both the residence and the office of the US President.
Aso Rock on the other hand is a sprawling assemblage of buildings. President’s residence and office are separate buildings.
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Aug 16, 2023
Some History:
In 1999 Obasanjo created a "Ministry for Cooperation and Integration in Africa."
Didn't last very long.
OBJ also created the Ministry of Environment, in 1999.
In 2011, GEJ created "Communication Technology" and "Trade and Investment" ("Industry" added in 2013)
PMB created the new Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in 2019
—Added "Digital Economy" to "Communications" also in 2019
—Added "Innovation" to "Science and Technology" in 2021
—Added "Aerospace" to "Aviation" in 2023
PBAT has:
—Created a new "Ministry of Art, Culture and Creative Economy."
—Added "Ecological Management" to "Environment"
—Split "Finance" and "Budget/Planning", and renamed "Budget & National Planning" -- now "Budget & Economic Planning"
—Added "Sanitation" to "Water Resources"
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Jul 7, 2023
Taiwo Oyedele an excellent candidate to lead this Tax work. Was Vice Chair of the National Tax Policy Implementation Committee(NTPIC) set up to implement the 2017 National Tax Policy(NTP) for Nigeria. It was that work that led to introduction of the Finance Acts 2019—2022
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The then Minister of Finance, @HMKemiAdeosun set up, Aug 2016, a National Tax Policy Review Committee (NTPRC), chaired by Prof Abiola Sanni. NTPRC produced a revised National Tax Policy for Nigeria (FEC approval Feb 2017) updating the original Tax Policy first developed in 2012.

Following the FEC approval of the revised Tax Policy 2017, @HMKemiAdeosun set up a National Tax Policy Implementation Committee (NTPIC) in April 2017. That Committee submitted its report on February 2, 2018. Its work produced drafts of 2 Executive Orders and 5 Amendment Bills.





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