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Governor Emmanuel eulogizes Chidi Izuwah’s legacy at colloquium
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Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, in a memorial colloquium organized in honour of the Director-General of Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC), late Engr. Chidi Izuwah, on Monday, eulogized the deceased and his indelible legacies.
Delivering his goodwill message at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, Governor Emmanuel, who was represented by the State Commissioner for Special Duties, Rt. Hon. Okpolupm Etteh said late Izuwah, with whom he “had a vital and good relationship spanning decades,” will be greatly missed by the people of Akwa Ibom State and Nigeria.
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writes that the move to abolish container deposit will reduce losses due to illegal charges imposed on importers by multinational shipping companies
Nigerian ports are said to be among the most expensive place to do business in the world. Aside from the cost of doing business, there are multiple challenges that have left observers’ wonder how a people can descend to a level that defy human reasoning.
Efforts to resolve the multiple problems, which include poor infrastructure, poor traffic management, corruption, racketeering and pilfering has never yielded any positive results.
This is not to say that government agencies are not trying. They are trying but entrenched interests who have made an industry out of the crisis in the ports have ensured that every effort made to restore sanity is frustrated.
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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
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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.
FG engaging in projects to create jobs, end insecurity – Amaechi
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By Marie-Therese Nanlong
Again, the Minster of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi has reiterated that the essence of some of the projects carried out by the federal government is to create jobs so that cases of banditry and insecurity can be reduced.
He pointed out that the reason why there is crime is because the rich men who had ran this economy from the beginning did not create jobs saying, “I don’t know why Nigerians always think that we were the first to be in government, before we came, there were previous governments, if they had ran the economy in the way that created jobs, today, even if there would be criminals, there would be very few criminals.”