Amaechi Never Asked Bala Usman To Award $1.5billion Channel Management To Two Chinese Companies Transport Ministry
There is the need for NPA to know that they should purchase their own equipment and not award any contract.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 11, 2021
The Federal Ministry of Transportation says its minister, Rotimi Amaechi never asked the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman to award $1.5 billion channel management to two Chinese companies.
A national daily had on Tuesday claimed Amaechi requested that the two companies be selected to manage Bonny and Warri Channels, a request the NPA rejected because it violated due process.
Festus Akanbi
The suspension of Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority last Thursday by the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, against civil service rules for the removal of heads of MDAs, was the culmination of the personal desire of the minister to remove Hadiza and truncate her second term as Managing Director of agency.
Hadiza was not told what her offences were or formally communicated, before her suspension was announced by the presidency.
Not querying her or making her aware of her offence(s) before suspending her is a clear breach of the processes stipulated in the governmentâs own regulation for disciplining heads of government agencies. A government circular dated May 19, 2020, and endorsed by the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, stipulated that when there is an issue of impropriety against the head of an agency, the federal government requires a minister, through the permanent secretary of t
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Lekki Port reaches 50% of breakwater’s construction
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By Godwin Oritse
CONSTRUCTION of the Lekki Deep Sea Port has reached 50 percent with the completion of the 1,909 meters long core of the main breakwater while work on the quay wall and landside infrastructure has reached advanced stages.
The milestone of the completion of the core of the main breakwater, according to the management of Lekki Port, would enhance the construction of other parts of the port scheduled to be completed before the end of 2022.
Managing Director, Lekki Port, promoters of the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) Enterprise Limited, Mr. Du Ruogang, disclosed these while briefing the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Dr. Magdalene Ajani and other key stakeholders in the project including the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman; the Director-General, of Nigerian Maritime Administrative and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh a
Eromosele Abiodun
The effort by Nigeria to have a new seaport with better facilities is gathering momentum as the Core of Main Breakwater at the Lekki Deep Sea Port has been completed and construction 50 per cent completed.
The Managing Director, Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited, Mr. Du Ruogang, disclosed this recently, during the first quarterly monitoring visit by the Federal Ministry of Transportation to the project site in Lagos.
The Lekki Deep Seaport Project was awarded to the Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited by Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on a build-own-operate-and-transfer (BOOT) agreement. Under this agreement, LFTZ is required to develop, finance, build, operate the port for a period of 45 years and transfer it to NPA thereafter. Slated for completion late 2022, the project is the single largest private investment in infrastructure in Nigeria being developed on non-recourse project finance basis with majority of financing being raised internationally.