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By Emmanuel Addeh
For the first since its take-off last year, the $2.8 billion Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project received a boost recently when a Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) operated train delivered 96 pipes from Warri, Delta State to Itakpe in Kogi State.
The Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano (AKK) project is a 614km-long pipeline being developed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to transport natural gas from southern Nigeria to central Nigeria and thereafter outside the country.
It is planned to be developed on a build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) basis under a public-private partnership (PPP), supervised by Nigeria’s Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).
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The Federal Government is in the process of bringing in foreign experts to comprehensively audit the multi-billion naira Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, as the foreigners are expected in the country soon.
It was gathered on Friday that the experts would have been in Nigeria since 2020 but the process was halted by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant shutdown of airports globally.
Officials at the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, however, told our correspondent that moves to get the foreigners into Nigeria had continued.
They stated that in no distant time, the experts would arrive the country and commence the audit at the facility in Kogi State.
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
The Federal Government, Friday, urged a steel firm, Premium Steel and Mines Limited, based in Warri, Delta State to commence full capacity steel operations towards creating jobs for youths in the mining sector and industrialising the country.
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc Olamilekan Adegbite, stated this while on a visit to the company, where the company’s management was assured of the government’s support and drive to actualize diversification of the economy through the solid minerals sector.
Adegbite made it known in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Ayodeji Adeyemi, who also maintained that it is the government’s resolve to ensure company’s like this are given support to grow and develop the sector by creating jobs and industrialise the economy.