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Mar 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Project commissionings I’m looking forward to:

Completed:
Second Niger Bridge
Loko-Oweto Bridge
700MW Zungeru Hydro Plant
40MW Kashimbila Hydro Plant

Almost completed:
Lagos-Ibadan Exp
Apapa-Oshodi-Oworo Exp

In progress:
AKK Gas Pipeline
Abuja-Kano
Bodo-Bonny
Abuja-Makurdi
This is exactly what @MBuhari has also been doing over the last couple of years, with #PIDFund #PPInigeria #ExecOrder7 #SukukBond #RailUPng etc etc
The list above is of course not an exclusive one. Not to talk of all the major projects already completed & commissioned—like the billion-dollar Lekki Deep Sea Port, 3 Inland Dry Ports, Lagos-Ibadan & Itakpe-Warri SGR, ~$20m NSIA healthcare investments (Lagos, Kano, Umuahia), etc
Still on completed and commissioned by @NigeriaGov, you have thousands of kilometers of roads and bridges across Nigeria, including (but not limited to) the following:

Banner source: @FMWHNIG Image
Under 'ongoing', you have the Port Harcourt Refinery Revitalisation (to restore 210,000bpd capacity), scheduled for completion 2023/24, and then, following somewhere behind in terms of schedule, Warri and Kaduna Refineries:

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Mar 14
Nigeria's new Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2022—Enabling legislation for @NigeriaGov's Ease of Doing Biz reforms—has now been gazetted (Feb 17, 2023).
It was assented to by President @MBuhari in February 2023. A very important piece of reform legislation.
Biz Environment reform is a journey, and @MBuhari has shown commitment to that journey, laying a solid foundation, through:
—Presidential Enabling Biz Env. Council (PEBEC)
—@bmenigeria
—Executive Order 1, 2017
—Companies & Allied Matters Act, 2020
—Business Facilitation Act, 2022
The Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2022 is really interesting. It mandates @NigeriaGov Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) "which provide products and services" to "PUBLISH a complete list of requirements to obtain the products & services."
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Mar 12
"Compared to the heavy military & police presence on this road 6 years ago, there were only 5 military checkpoints from Gombe—Biu now... Travelling this road now... showed how much progress @HQNigerianArmy has made in fight against insurgency..." sunnewsonline.com/biu-bornos-cos…
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"The last time this reporter visited Biu six years ago, Boko Haram was still claiming swathes of territory in Borno State. Though less active in this part of the state, there were occasional raids, which made travelling by road risky. But things have changed for the better."
"The Nigerian Army University, Biu, occupies several hectares of land by the right, adding to Biu’s scenic beauty with new, modern buildings. Established 4 years ago, the University just had its first set of graduates. Biu has always been a major academic centre in the Emirate."
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Feb 23
I saw a Bloomberg correspondent tweeting that Nigeria has lost its leadership role in West Africa.

Not really surprised by that take (considering the source), but let me just explain—with 'receipts'—why it's BS.

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Apart from the obvious fact that Nigeria remains by far the largest economy in West Africa, and that the economy of Lagos alone is bigger than that of any other West African country...
Nigeria's contributions to stabilising West Africa in recent years have been unparalleled: Whether by carrying the bulk of the burden of financing the MNJTF
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Feb 19
The only sellable thing for this presidential election is RECORD. Show us what you did in the previous political positions you held. What you innovated, implemented. The teams you assembled and empowered. The lasting legacies you left behind.

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“I will, I will” or “This is how China /Bangladesh/ Indonesia did it” or “You will see when we get there” won’t quite cut it.

Show the past workings: what you did, the fresh thinking you brought, how you mobilized financing for it, who you assembled to help do it.
That PMB was going to be Nigeria’s most impactful infrastructure President was evident from his PTF and Petroleum Commissioner record.

That he was going to decisively degrade and defeat Boko Haram (yes, BH/ISWAP degraded/defeated) was evident from his record against Maitatsine.
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Feb 19
BAT talks a lot about his record as 2-term Governor of Lagos

AA talks a lot about his record as 2-term VP

Kwankwaso talks a lot about his record as 2-term Governor of Kano

But you have one man who prefers to say "I will, I will" as if he wasn't a 2-term Governor as well.
@officialABAT’s FISCAL and JUDICIAL reforms alone as Governor of Lagos State put him in a class by himself. These are reforms that several other States have copied.

Tell us one significant, replicable governance reform the LP candidate introduced as Governor. Just one.
Even the return of schools to their original Mission owners, that PO tries to sell as a revolutionary achievement of his in Anambra, Ngige had kicked it off as Governor.

And long before then, BAT had started it in Lagos. Facts only.
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Feb 19
"I have a track record my competitors cannot match. We quadrupled state tax revenues, putting those funds directly to work through investing in public services and infrastructure." — @officialABAT
"A legacy of technocratic governance was instituted [in Lagos State] by enlisting talent from the private sector." — @officialABAT
"The squeeze on foreign reserves caused by importing fuel will be eased by increased refinery capacity due later this year, not least by the Dangote refinery located within the Lekki Free Trade Zone (created in Lagos in 2006)." — @officialABAT
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