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    Ce Re} | ‘ e (Wy mo | “= Limited ——THE MAGAZINE Ny ay LPG Market eT EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH / @ Sadeeq Mai-Bornu, DMD, NLNG @ Simbi Wabote, Exec. Sec, NCDMB CMC Ne A Lp AUCs: ( tem eC (ole lecelal tprroR CONTENTS Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 Contents From the Editor-in-Chief 4 COVER STORY @ NING Makes a New New Mark in Nigetion 5 Content and Domestic LPG Supply @ NING and Nigeria's Domestic LPG Market 7 © We Ave Deepening LPG Utilisation in Nigeria 9 — Mai-Bornu @ NING Domestic LPG Offtakers 14 © NCDMB Plans Big for the LPG Space —Simbi 15 Wabote @ Opportunities for Investment in the LPG Sector 19 © LPG: Healthier, Cleaner, Cheaper ... and 20 Good Business — Dayo Adeshina OTHER STORIES @ Literature Prize: Power, Politics and A LongList 26 of 11 @ NING Partners with LCCI on World Malaria 28 Day © Troinee Operators and Technicians Tasked To 30 Be Good Ambassadors © Tony Attah speaks at The Business Year 31 Roundtable on Gas @ NING at International Maritime Conference 32 © NING Termed Best Example of Public-Private 33 Partnership Book Reading with Ikeogu Oke 34 WGC and NOG Conferences and Exhibitions 36 @ 87 JVand SCD JV Consortia Win FEED 38 Contracts for Train 7 © NING seeks $7billion for Train 7 Expansion, 42 Repays Shareholders NING: The Moozine | EM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FROM THE Editor-in-Chief am particularly happy to present this edition of NUNG: The Magazine. As always, it is the result of conscientious work and full of exciting stories. In our cover story, we focus on Nigerio’s domestic LPG market. We bring you interviews with people who know that industry well, and you are sure to enjoy their insights. This indudes an interview with Simbi Wobote, the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board. There is also a chat with Dayo Adeshina, whom we spoke fo in his capacity as the President of Nigerian LPG Association. Adeshina now heads the National LPG Exponsion Implementation Plan project in the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria. Besides the insights and rich experience these veterans bring, we have also packed this edition full with practical tips for investment in the LPG sub-sector. In this edition, too, we present for your reading delight the story of the signing of Front End Engineering Design (FEED contracts. That act is an important precursor to taking Final Investment Decision (FID) for our Train 7 project, a game changer in its own right! HER) Mc: the Mopocne Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 Sadeee Mot Borne Deputy Menaging Director In addition to all those, NING paid off outstanding loan of over $5 billion to its shareholders, putting us in a comfortable position in terms of credit rating os we seek $7 billion dollars from the local and international community of lenders for Train 7 development and sustainability activities. With so much significant and exciting stories, now you know why | om particularly happy to present this edition of NLNG: The Magazine fo you. I heartily invite you to enjoy the reading! Sadecg Vai-Boww Deputy Managing Director cover Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 NLNG Makes A New Mark In Nigerian Content And Domestic LPG Supply By Emeka Aghayi a significant demonstration of its commitment to Nigerian Content and jomestic LPG supply, NING was a proud and historic witness to a contract signing ceremony which held recently at Mipo Dockyard in London. The contract was between Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., Lid. of South Korea, a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group and E. A. Temile & Sons Development Company Limited (a wholly Nigerian company). Hyundai Mipo Dockyard will build on LPG vessel for E. A. Temile & Sons who will, in ‘um, charter the LPG vessel to NLNG. in line with NUNG's plan, acquisition of the new vessel will boost domestic LPG volume and evailabilily, thereby deepening and consolidating its contributions to the LPG industry. NING Board had approved the aword to build ond charter the LPG vessel to NLNG, to E. A. Temile & Sons. sienGethruct ‘on a sur oneny one ayuntror age cit agg lo & Sone Develogent Conpany Limted end Hyuie! Mipo cegeet Dociyatd ofS controct sig rerony. Witnessing the controct signing ceremony, Tory Attah NLNG’s Managing Director pointed out that the contract with E. A. Temile & Sons Development Company Limited was a milestone and o first in Nigeria. According to Alteh, “ihe impact of this signing ceremony is two pronged. Firstly, for over 10 years, NLNG has remained committed to the domestic LPG market. At the moment, itis the single largest supplier of LPG in Nigeria as the compary now supplies over 50% of the product in the country, dedicating 350,000mipa. The other dimension to this is NING's commitment to Nigerion content development. A Nigerian company will be managing the construction of this new-build ond will eventually own it. This is o pioneering partnership ond we believe it will impact positively ‘on developing in-country capacity in the maritime sector.” cover NLNG has, in the past, engaged in similar arrangements through the contracts awarded by Bonny Gas Transport (BGT), an NLNG subsiciary, to Samsung and Hyundai (SHI and HHI) to construct six new Dual Fuel Diesel Electric (DEFE) LNG carriers. The Nigerian Content deliverables fied to the contracts yielded, among so many things, training of over 700 Nigerians in ship building, establishment of a globally certified Marine Centre of Excellence on Bonny Island, usage of noteworthy quantities of Nigerian made painis, low voltage cables, aluminium and sacrificial anodes, and furniture in the construction of the vessels in Hyundai and Samsung shipyards in South Korea. To sustain its leadership position in Nigerian Content, NUNG had in the recent past also signed a business to business Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Nigerion Content Development and Monitoring Board [NCDMB), the government agency charged with responsibility for that sector. The SLA was a key strategy for shortening contracting cycle, cutting the cost of projeds_and improving compliance with the Nigerian Content Act 2010. The SLA was the first ofits kind in Nigeria's oil and gas industry and supports Nigerian governments drive to enhance the ease of doing business in Nigeria. As with Nigerian Content, so with domestic LPG supply in Nigerio where NLNG has also maintained a leadership role. NING supplies over 50% of Nigeria's domestic LPG need. The companys intervention in DLPG supply in Nigeria more than 10 years ago, together wih its commitment to deliver 350,000 mtpa of DLPG to the domestic market, has guaranteed product availabiliy, offordabilty and accessibility. Other dignitaries at the contract signing ceremony include the Exec. See. of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Simbi Kesiye Wabote; the Deputy Monaging Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mohammed Balarabe; MD, E. A. Temile & Sons Lid, Alfred Temile; Exec. Vice President, HHI, S. Y. Park, ond MD of HHI, Jay H. Kang. The new LPG vessel is expected to be delivered in 2020. LING: The Magozine Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 From lef Mohommed Bolorobe, Fidelity Bank DMD; Simbi Wabote, Exec. Sec. NCDMB; SY. Park, Hl Alfed Temile, MD Temie; Toy Atta, MD NING and Joy H Kang, MD HH, London ‘Simbi Wabote, Exec. Sec. of NCDMB middle); Tony Attah, MD/CEO NING and officals of Hyundat Mpa Dockyard Celebrating Nigerian Content inthe deol—Tany Attoh, MO/CEO of NING (lef) and Simi Wobote, Exec. Sec. of Nigeia Content Board Company executives of the contact sgning ceremony. feolra3 co ear} For over 10 years, NLNGS: intervention in the supply egress nee a een an cooking gus to the domestic market under the NLNG eee ee ee ee a a LPG supply availability and affordability the development of different parts of Between 2007 and 2017, NLNG supplied over 1,240 kilotonnes per annum (kipa) of DLPG spurring o steady rise in annual Cee ee Ree ee emi a RPA era OT ear tN RR ar) ee eee Lc) ensure steady supply of products. NING's involvement has encouraged huge ee aes eee re giving rise to new facilities in Calabar, Port Harcourt Ae eee nec) eee etleed These new faxilities and the expansion of existing Cee ane tne eke) storage capacity from less than 10kt in 2007 to over FO TOA Met na he cea) . erat Sen In continuous demonstration of its een React ed Rn “helping to build o better Nigeria’, NING has committed fo delivering Re Rage any Ce ee eee) ie Boe ee Cee ORM em Rea ee ae eiicccte) from just six at the inception of the Domestic LPG Scheme to 27 as at end of 2017. NING commissioned a study of the industry. and the Creme peta) aur a nen cas Raed TU hawaii implementation of various interventions across the eT eee eee CN ECR ene eat rsa Zi the Government leading to the establishment of Program Management Office (PMO) to drive the NUNG: The Magazine cover National LPG Expansion Initiative led by the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria NLNG has maintained its leadership role in the industry being a member of the Governing Council of Nigeria LPG Association, NLNG became a member of the World LPG Association 2017. This edition of NLNG: The Magazine focuses on the LPG space in Nigeria. Nigeria is a net exporter of LPG in Africa. The country consumes barely 15% of the volumes it produces. The rest are exported. LPG is the least utilized of the four major cooking fuels ~ firewood, kerosene, charcoal, gas. Nigeria's average consumption per person is just above 1kg, comparatively much less than other West African countries like Ghana (4.7kg) and Senegal (9kg) and significantly lower than similar LDCs (Indonesia ~ 24kg, Egypt - 85kg & South Africa — 8.5kg). Nigeria spends over Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 $1bn per annum on kerosene subsidy ond faces increasing environmental challenges with continuous deforestation as over 50% of households still rely on firewood as cooking fuel. LPG, if given the right attention, has the potential to change all that, hence the focus on it in this edition of NLNG: The Magazine. Among other things, we present a conversation with Sadeeq Mai-Bornu, Deputy Managing Director of Nigeria LNG Limited, who shares NING's vision for the Nigerian LPG space. We also spoke with Dayo Adeshina who heads the National LPG Expansion Initiative in the office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and who was formally the President of Nigerio LPG Association. Dayo brings perspectives as both an entrepreneur in the LPG industry and a key stakeholder among the general body of practitioners. On his part, Simbi Wabote, the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, in our chat with him throws light on the role of NCDMB with regard fo LPG and Nigerian Content. What is your take on the ne proved Notional Gas Polo? ‘The 2017 Notional Gos Policy builds on a lot of work that has Beastie ie tes Yee fo hamess and ‘gos for ‘Nigeria. So | would say that this is ‘the most robust policy that we ‘have soen so far. “The policy itself addresses many. different areas such os tolling which is reolly how to use your plant to process other ‘people's gas into LNG or whatever else, and domestic pricing. I looks at ownership strudure within the gas value chain, environmental protection, linkages to the different industrial First, LPG itself is very close fo my heart, | have been involved in the construcion of nine LPG depots my eyes to the environmental impact and devastation that deforestation and desert encroachment can have. That's fn one side. On the Niger Delta side, the pollution of the environment itself is equally as serious. So we have environmental issues on all sides cand | think that LPG can really help with those, which is why signing of the Gas Policy into law. Talking about opportunities that _ exist in the LPG business in Nigeria, there's a misconception Kea aaa Actually, cooking is 0 tip of the iceberg, The bul of LPG use is industrial. So we can look at the issue of LPG both as fuel and os. Vol. 4 Ne 1, 2018 ‘oil ranspod. The recent accident in Lagos involving a tanker could have been avoided if we had an efficent rail system, So, there is an oppertunity there as well as in shipping. OF course, we don't have distribution terminals and bottling plants. There are also opportunities there. The thrust of the policy itself is gos-based d we have gas based industries os it wos called in the Gas Master Plan, or the use of gas product for iransporiation or in ‘agriculture, NUNG is looking af the opportunities in the domestic space where our size (we have six {rains}, our iquefaction assels, ‘ond our expertise con give us a competitive odvantage. Some of springing up as pioneers in LNG trucking and distribution on a ‘small scale. Their plan is also to use LNG as a fuel for the epee re seen NG ‘around the country, so tage cl va ING es both fuel and product. For us ot NING, LPG will continue to be on area of COVER Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 intervention and, you knew, we that as @ country we can aim for, Often times you are only able to are already talking to the office of lets say, 5 milion tons in the next access one jetty, the NOL the Vice President with a view to ‘10 years. And, as | said, cooking needed to have some flexibility in deepening the LPG sector—os a_i just alip of it. So, we are getting LPG fo the market and we supplier. We supply over 50 per hoping that Government will give found out that there are two incentives and tariffs for people __more jeties that ore there, the who will go into the business of | PWA and the BOP If we invest in gylinders, bottling plants, trucking, those jetties, then we will have barges, and so on. We see taken this to our Board of ourselves mainly as a supplier to our LPG; instead of our waiting ee In ietenty with the enable small oe big players to for them to finish discharging i jon fuel at NOI or petrol at use ony jetty thot forward to ees 100 per cent of the countrys needs. more volume of LPG into the market. In fact, according to the Nigerian Bureau of Siatisics, following our intervention, by March of 2018 the average cos! of fling a 5kg ee cylinder actually sere by deepening of of LPG for national consumption LPG utilisation in Was somewhere around 50,000 Nigeria. tons onnually. But then, we saw Of bout 13.6 fro the prevous that there was increesed demand _ye0r. So price is dropping, and especially around the Lagos area the more volume we are able to nd they had distribution push into the market, ani challenges ot the jeties. So. more people come into the NING made o commitment to the price will , ise and the gas becomes more affordable. The end users tons. Port of th the jetly is not “helping build o better Nigeria — in knowing not play in a space like shipping, but also helping to provide opportunity in that space ligerions, That is exactly what ~ happened in this instance. We cover ‘warded a long term contrac fo ‘@ compeny so that the company can go and raise funds to invest in that business; they develop capocity in-country; they make money ond then they provide employment to Nigerians as well At the same time, through that process, wo have expanded our ‘options for shipping LPG to the local market. We think that is a good model and it is a win-win situation for NUNG, for this particular company and for the Nigerian populace. In the last quarter of 2017, you _and other company officials visited Gas Terminalling and Distribution Limited (GTDL), ‘operators of Nigeric's first fully integrated LPG terminal. We understand that GTDL's LPG- fired generators have led to lower emissions and about 40% KEY CONDITIONS: a)" Tie Magazine | reduction in operating cost. What did NLNG hope to achieve with this visit? First of oll, there is something called 'Go See! as part of our usual practice in NING. So we went fo see what they have. Gas Terminalling is one of the six foundation off-tokers of our LPG—as far back as 2007—so it was an opportunity 10 see and assess their operations and journey so far. We were impressed with what we saw. For example, all the power requirements and central cir conditioning were running on LPG. In fact, they showed us 0 water heater thot wes connected toa 12kg oylinder. We also met another company, Asiko Energy, which works with our OEMs to develop LPG-fuelled applications and equipment relevant to the Nigerian market place in areas like heating, cooling and power generation. So those visits were part of NLNG's effort to deepen our paricipotion in the LPG space and determine how best fo partner with such players as GTDL ond Asiko, This is why | said earlier that LPG as cooking fuel is a small drop in the oceon. The industrial use for LPG is really where you see the opportunity, And this is where NING can be an enabler—in the sense that the more volume we: supply, the better. By the time most people switch fo gos, then businesses will have no choice but fo explore opportuniies in industriol LPG, in auto gas, and so on, But one thing that will make them go info such businesses is security of supply, so Vol 4 No 1, 2078 the LPG has fo be available, accessible, ond affordable, which is where we come in. You used three terms that interest us: available, accessible ‘and affordoble. What is NING doing as a company to make — this happen with regard to LPG? First of all, the availability is there, a you are aware. That is why the NING Board increased our ‘commitinent to supplying the local market with up fo 350,000 tons of LPG per annum. What needs to be done is removal of distribution bottlenecks—which is why we invested in the jetios which | mentioned earlier, but we want more people to invest. And that is beginning to happen. So if you open up the country, then you will see opportunites. | close my eyes and | see this vision of ING and LPG trucks delivering cover energy to.a town the Aber where we have industrial adivity. The moment you have captive power there, that place will came back to life. In Bonny, people comploin that the gos they use is produced in NING faciliy in Bonny, shipped to Lagos, ‘ronsported by road to Port Harcourt, put in @ barge and brought back fo Bonny. The people pay a lot for that. My response to that is that that isthe significance of Bonny Bode Read. When the road is ready, the hope is that investors will come fo Bonny and build LPG plonts. That way we have a botiling plant in Bonny and the oylinders will just go to Abolamabie and get filed The moment we overcome this kind of distribution bottleneck the gas becomes not only accessible but olso affordable. The ffordabilty vill be further enhonced with more players coming in because it will engender competition. NING has a role to play in allthis, which is why we are partnering with the Federal Government through the office of the Vice President who has formed on interministerial commitiee for this That is part of NING's strategy to deepen ond develop that LPG space. This might be the right forum fo address issues relating 10 you give any firm that wants to join NLNG's prestigious LPG off-takers club? I think that more off-tokers ore weleame. They are welcome because in business first of all you need competition; from competition the product becomes accessible cond affordable. Availabilty wil be token care of by us. So the more Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 “if you open up the country, then you will see opportunities. I close my eyes and I see this vision of LNG and LPG trucks delivering energy to a town like Aba where we have industrial activity.” offtakers. We have the more the opportunity for LPG to be embraced as a clean safe fuel. Of course, these offiokers will have to go through cur own rigorous process. It will then be left for the regulator, the Department of Petroleum Resources, to make sure thot sharp practices such as round- tripping do not happen. | think | should mention that there are also other opportunites in the LPG valve chain. | think businesses should not limit themselves to LPG distrbutorship. For example, we talked about trucking by road, production or importation of gflinders,reteiling, and botling planis. But there are other aspects We need inspectors who will go round in estotes which hove piped gas (gas reticulation) to make sure that safety stondords ore kept. Inspectors will look at valves ond ovlinders, for instance, and be able to say, “These have expired”. There is also opportunity for supply of ‘equipment, for shipping ond railway—logistics—which is big business. Ports like Calabar, Burutu, and Koko hove low drafts; big vessels cannot go there. So even if you have a storage facility in Calabar it conno! receive LPG. Borges can be used fo suoply LPG to those places. Indeed, there ore varied opportunities in the LPG value chain. Thank you. MUNG: The ‘eon rc Leica an Ve ire Keer Rea Dee eee Gas Projects 26 Kosa Stree, Orikan, Lagos ee elctesankeneedcriaual Pierce lec pelo ahs -eooGgreeniieldes. Estiaabisasy Cece iy enh oe Fae no) ec Cea ao uae Delete eves Takeda \4 Sapare Street, OF Mobil Rood Daedric cs earn eames kent kan Creal ea aa Pov ct pmu@Vitol.com i ae aed Ce eee a ce eee Aa Petrone tas FPMC (Pipelines & Products Marketing a a Block C, NPC Towers ai esta Reactant geno kd Drennan 14 roy ito ket Re ee cea silt ict Coto Heseleprites mchienresiy ey Poe cL er eer od a Perel ele naa ad ee es] Le oe ia Ro eukensd Se Cun one Seinen Feito Ce Lee and Cece) 7 Port Nove Shoot, Wuse ll, Abvia Cerra ee ote Cee ec Doel 1 Adeyemi Bero Crescent.llupeiu Dae See N ne Cid hah cerned ‘edem.grenigas@amail.com Ecogas Energy Resources Limited Se el ee Cerone eee nee ee ce shina.luwoye@ecogasenergy.com ete) eae ae Te rc ce Poet ee) Re oo Himma merchants limited Pr aed ed cara SE ead Coniaet Person: Bashir Abdulrahman Ce oT Pe otter auc Ce kee oe re ea ae ad Dora Masters Energy Oil & Gas Ltd 21 Remi-fani Kayode Steet hejo, Lagos een [See ener nay ee ete) Peas ceases yah Dea ec Genie ae er Weed pee ony ered AN ene arya sey ee anne oe taeda fete eeerkoe ages enon ea NCDMB Plans Bi for the 5 LPG Space - Simbi Wabote Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 Uh dA Simbi Wabote is the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Manogement and Development Board (NCDMB) where he is responsible for building capacity and domiciling oil and gas industry activities within Nigeria. ‘An accomplished professional in the oil and gas industry, Wabote has been, among other things, General Manager, Local Content Development, at Shell Exploration Production Company in Nigeria (SEPCIN) where he helped develop Royal Dutch Shells local content strategy and framework and supervised Shell Local Content implemeniation across several countries in Africa ond the Middle East, Australia and America. Simbi Wabote spoke to Emeka Agbayi at NCDMB headquarter in Yenagoa and revealed his Boards plans for the LPG industry in Nigeria. Photography was by Gaibo Awoala. MUNG: The Megane | cover Let's talk LPG. What role does NCDMB play in that sector? | am aware that NING today hes the capecily to produce about 40 metric tons of LPG per annum. We did a study with KPMG to understond LPG penetration in Nigeria. We discovered that in country of about 170 milion plus, we have in existence just about 3.5 milion cylinders. Thet tells you that the utilisation of LPG in the country is very limited. As pot of our 10-year sirategic objective, our desire at NCDMB is to enable the penetration of LPG in Nigeria. |.am also aware that thee ore only one or two LPG depots in Nigeria at the moment, When LPG comes ‘o Nigeria, it gets to Lagos before being transported to other parts of the country. NCDMB wants to act as a catalyst and an enabler to ensure LPG penetration nationwide by starting a process to manufacture steel or fibre glass LPG cylinders in-country, ond facilitate the establishment of LPG depots in arees that can be accessed ond then extending this network of depots by opening refill stations all over the country. We haye plans for about three depots within the next couple of years, and to also establish one or two plants to manufacture LPG oylinders, of course also using the gos corridor in order to reduce the cost of manufacturing. That way, if we are able to get LPG cress to the north, for example, it will help us address the deforestation thot we face in this country. You can imogine the number of jobs that will create. Those are some of the plants that can be cited within the Nigerian oil end gos industrial parks. | am WING: The Mapozine sure you know that the imported gas is a bit cheaper than the one manufactured in-country because of the value added tax that is slammed on the one produced in-county. We want to play big in this oreo to bring down the cost of LPG together with NING and other agents of government. eg Cea oT Pur Cee | ee ery Nel manufacture LPG OUT em ele ee Ree Ta CT mu eo med ee a manufacturing. When you say we are working to have in-country production of LPG plants, what specific plans are on ground at the moment? Like I told you, we have done the study. The next step is that we have identified one or two investors who want fo invest in- country for the manufacturing of gos cylinders. As a board, we ore also working to establish a lending facility with the Bank of Industry where we give loans at single digit interest rate fo potential investors working parfculorly in the manufacturing sector. The funding is in four schemes: manufacturing, project financing, equipment financing ‘and community contractors financing. A single digit interest Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 rate, most of those investors who wart to go into LPG manufacturing will get the support of the Board in terms of access to low interest funds. You have spent some time as Executive Secretary of NCDMB. In your opinion, what is the biggest thing you have achieved or that if you achieve, you will look at and tell yourself my time here wos worth it? The biggest achievement since | ‘came in will be the repositioning of the Board, in terms of creating 1a long term vision for the Board as to where we want to be in the next 10 years. We started by getting ourselves together and developing 10-year strategic road map, | might not be in the postion in the next 10 years to see it through, but the way ifs been crafted and couched, it is not a personal agenda. It is o developmental ogenda which | believe anybody who comes when | leave will key into. That is one. Secondly, | have tried to also reposition and restructure the organisation of NCDMB. Because this Board superintends over the oil and gas industry where | am coming from, | am aware of the level of training in that sector and 11am aware of how we felt cbout regulators. So, my initial task was to see how | will build copacity within the board for it fo be able {0 effectively superiniend over the oil and gas sector in a transparent and efficient manner. | carried out an organisational process review with a view to positioning the organisation to help us achieve the 10-year siroiegic intent. We have successfully done that. We brought about a lot of changes. cover We brought about some bit of corporate culture and discipline into NCDMB. We have keyed into the Federal Government's agenda ‘on ease of doing business by creating platforms that enable business transactions. As you know, we also interface with the oil ond gas industry downstream and midstream sector. So we have also imbibed this culture of establishing Service Level Agreements with our customers because when | come nto the Boord, | sew that it was alweys © blame game. The customers are scying the Board is slow; we ore soying the customers are not responding as and when required. So the fist thing we did, particularly with NING, was to sit down and soy, ‘how do we streamline our processes and hold each other ‘accountoble with regard to what we ore supposed fo do?’ So we signed a Service Level Agreement with NLNG last year. One of the key agendas of the Honourable Minister for Petroleum Resources is fo reduce how long it takes us ‘0 award @ simple contract because you know if you continue to prolong the contract cycle time it adds to cost. NCDMB has taken the bull by the horn by being the first organisation or parestatal wihin government to sign an SLA with the private sector We have also enhanced our NOGIC JQS which is our IT platform with which we interact with the public in terms of expatriate quota administration, Nigerian equipment cerificates that we issue, and s0 on. So we have a strategic road mop, what we want to achieve short term, medium term and long ferm, and we ore gradually addressing those. Would you mind sharing with us @ bit of the 10-year long term vision? Part of cur 10-year long form ede eae dle Ce Cre Red) ome ae TT a eld industry spend of $20b. vision is that we want io retain in- country $14b of the annual industry spend of $20b. Currently, since the enactment of the low (Nigerian Content Ad) in 2010 we have been able to claw back $5b. Our aspiration is to claw back as much as $ 14bilion, Secondly, we want to create 300,000 direct jobs. We also intend to establish a dry docking faciliy within the next 10 yeors that can take care of big vessels like your LNG tonkers. We also, within the next 10 years, want to establish five oil and gas industrial parks in most of the oil Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 producing siates in the country so that manufocturers can incubate con entire manufacturing hub within those industrial porks. One of the greatest challenges with manufacturing in this country is power and those industrial hubs will be able to use gas to provide power 24 hours for any industrialist who wants fo set themselves up in the country. We aise wasnt to play in the downstream sector. There's so much folk about modular refineries. We want io be a catolyst in the fobrication and manufacturing of modular refineries in-country within the next 10 years. These are just a bit of some of the 10-year strategic plon that we have. Retaining 14 billion dollars in country is no mean feat; itis in fact a herculean task, but we are poised 10 do thet. If it happens, Nigerians will be grateful fo you for that. 1 remember reading in the NCDMB magazine that African countries are coming to NCDMB for help with implementation of their local content initiatives. That is correct. | always get a lot of speaking invitations from all ‘over Aftica to come and shore the strides we have made in local content development in the oil ‘and gas sedor. The other doy it was Ghana that came knocking fo say look we want you fo share your experience with us and set us on the tight path to locol content development. When | go to international conferences and seminars and we talk about what we have achieved so far within the post seven years itis phenomenal and a lot of them wont to learn from what we NUNG: The Magazine cover have done in Nigeria. Some of them even go as far as wanting to duplicate the Local Content Ac igelf So, | think that in this country, since the enactment of the law we have made tremendous achievements. Before the enaciment of the law there wos no serious component in the oil and gos industry that wos fabricated in- country. Everything was fobricated outside this country, Today, | am proud to say tha! we have about six world class fabricofion yards ihat can handle up to 60,000 metric tons of fabrication in the country. Like you know, all our pipes - bare pipes, coated pipes - wore all imported before the enaciment of the Act. Todey you have two world class pipe mills in Abuja and in Lagos and then you have six world dass coating plants in-country. We no longer allow the procurement of coated pipes from outside the country since we have plants in country that can do these to wihctever level desired by the oil and gos sector. Talking about cables, « lat of cobles are required in the oil and {908 industry and we make bold fo say that all the cables needed - particularly in FPSO construction, including the LNG tankers - are all purchased here in Nigeria becouse they ore all manufactured right here in Nigeria. Same thing with protective coatings - paints. In the past, every drop of paint that we required, we imported. Today we manufadure in-country all the paints required in our oil and gas industry. So, there's been tremendous achievement in terms ‘of what we have done. That is why other African countries want to loarn from Nigeria. But while that is going on, we are already interrogating ourselves as to what the next level will be for us in local content in the near future. We are already talking about ‘extending local content strategic intent to other sectors of the ‘economy, The power sector, ICT, ‘and manufoduring, for instance. Ht we achieve that, we will change the ‘game, and people will sleep easy because we would hove been able to provide jobs for the teeming population of unemployed youths in the country. Is there anything concrete going on in that regard at NCDM6 or with the Federal Government? Ne) TH Tere el) Dee ya ec) by being the first organisation or Felelee cele MLL Cn ar i) CU ees Pad Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 Yes, we are currently consulting with the stakeholders, with the National ‘Assembly, to come up with @ very lear framework that are net in conflict with any international treaies oF bilateral agreemenis such thal we can come up with perhaps an amendment fo the Ac itself to accommodate other sectors of the economy. Those discussions and consultations ave on-going at the moment with members of the Notional Assembly What is your assessment of Nigeria LNG Limited in terms of Nigerian content? To c large extent, NING in terms of local content development as defined by them then, in order fo live harmoniously with their community because when you find yourself on an island, you have fo do things differently in order that the island people are happy with you end can live with you as @ neighbour. Look at the strategy in terms of power supply fo the communiy. | think it was noble thet they did not go there and say we will use this light olone. Today, if you go to Bonny where NLNG § situated, the community hos 24 hours electricity because NLNG realised thot their fortune is fied to the fortune of the community In that respeds, thoy die very well But we sill have a lotto do. Hf there is on opportunity for NLNG to ‘expand their plant, we are: prepared at NCDMB fo work with NING to really improve on their achievements in local cortent. | think they will certainly achieve more given that they will be guided by the provisions of the Act to domicile lot more of their activities in-country. Thank you. alot cover Vol 4 No 1, 2018. Opportunities for Investment Pin the LPG Sector pan aye ma OED EL There ore only four jeties. or coastal terminals tha! con jake LPG in the country. Three in Apapa, Lagos and one ‘in Calabar. This is grossly inadequate for the coastal supply of LPG, which has now become the panacea to the ocute shorfall in LPG suoplies. lnveament is still required in this area fo inereose copoly 1 receive, store in primary storoges for onward movement fo secondary storages. These terminals need ‘0 dot the countrys coastal line, SECONDARY/INLAND STORAGES Also known os bu‘onisation tants, they ore situated inland. Gas moves from the coasial storages to inland storages, In the post, nine 12,000 metrics fonnes inland storages were butt and abandoned becouse of lock of cooking gos ppl. Many of these storoges will need resuscitation and ‘expansion and new ores need fo be sel up ocross the couniry le enhance accessibilly and expond distribution Ba col cl EELS There are about 250 registered LPG bottling olanis in eee ‘about 50% of these are functoring, ‘an increasing level of investments Irth ore bo nyt Eloy ok oF cooking gos supply. There is business sense in reviving the filling plant and building new ones in the hinterlands to supply most of ‘he people who depend on firewood for cooking fuel. Bee This s the most reliable transportation of cooking gas fo. inland storage tanks, Public private-parinership to resurred the railways for ‘his business would not be out of ploce in the scheme of things to tum around the market. aL lel cy Trucks cory the cooking gos from primary storeges to. secondary storages and to the filing plants. Investments ore needed in 20-25 fons bulk trucks and smaller 5-10 fons bobtall trucks. There is also an investment opportunity in mobile filing plants (mounted ‘on trucks) which can go house fo house to fill eylinder. _ This is the mos crifcal component of the value chain, With only 500,000 cylinders to 150m people, there is importation of eylinders or the importation of steel plates fo manufacture oylinders in the country, ‘There is also investment in businesses thot involve distribution of cylinders. Different sizes of cinders con be sold depending on the market, from 1.25kg to 50kg. Rare rely This fs the practice in other parts ofthe world which fs dlso an opportunity here in Nigeria. The rise of modern ‘slales all over the couniry makes this an imperative. Simple manufacturing lechniques can produce accessories such as gos burners, cylinder valve, gas hoses, regulators, ee. Rae Nd This comes in handy for storing eylinders sofely (wholesale) ond getting distributors to market he products to the end-user. In some kind of cylinder-leasing schemes 10 sell LPG, the system of warehousing will ensure a continuum in supply of emply oylinders. PS Ue Sa Distributors con buy cylinders and distribute with their own mmergins. A fortastic wey to go about ths is leasing of oflinders. Imagine driving into ¢ filing stotion to fill your cylinders the way you would fil your car with fuel. With improved cooking gas supply, the downstream sector of cooking {208 could be os rewarcing os that of petrol and kerosene, ae cover Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 LPG: Healthier, Cleaner, Cheaper ..-and Good Business - Dayo Adeshina An LPG expert and passionate environmentalist with over 25 years’ experience in various industries, including oil and gas, power and telecommunication, Dayo Adeshina is Programme Manager, “National LPG Expansion Implementation Plan” in the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria. He is an Industry Council member of the World LP Gas Association (WLPGA), Board Member of the African Energy Association, member Sustainability Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and member of the Energy Institute, London. Adeshina is also the Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Energy. Until recenily, Adeshina was President of Nigerian LPG Association, (NLPGA) in which capacity he spoke with NLNG: The Magazine. You are sure to find the interview engrossing. cover LPG has been steady at about N2500 fo N3000 for the 12.5kg. Then it went up and now hovers ‘at about N4,500 to N5000. What ‘accounts for this increase, in the first place? Lagos has three terminals NAFGAS has the biggest at 8,000 tons capacity; now they ore exponding by another 3000. Then you have NIPCO with 5000, and they are expanding by another 5000. PPMC (NO3) has 4000. Of all those three coastal terminals, only one has a dedicated jetty where your vessel can go in and discharge, and that is NAFGAS. So, when the vessel goes to the other jetties, it has fo wait. Now the way NING has designed this scheme is 1o have a cischarge every week, but we have had situations where it fakes a month and o half to have @ discharge. You and | know that is $45000 a day in demurrage. This is where NLNG's intervention at BOP and PWA come in, so that at the fimes when NOM is congested, we should be able to use one of those two jetties, So i's been jetty constraints essentiolly ‘and, of course, if the market expands - and it will - especially with this new Notional Gas Policy ond more players coming to market, that can increase to two discharges a week. The market as we find it today is largely unbranded which makes us wonder, ina world that is lorgely obsessed with optics and posturing, aren't the current players leaving themselves at a huge disadvantage? You right, but again, look ot where we are coming from. We PTS Ta Ce) Die ea ds Sed Cee ea LS Cet Pa a eal iL eet ee eee acd OE Ta ee Re a] Cs proposed for a policy to be in place; that has only happened in 2017. Now ifs o deregulated product—ownership of cylinders plays a key role and it is something which we are discussing with SON. Because everywhere in the world, ino developed LPG market — and | have been to 35 countries of this world just for LPG — the morket comes fo you. In an undeveloped market, you have to go 10 the market. With that, the markeling is very important, you hove fo be closer to the people — with gas filling facilities, and that is where branding fakes place. Cylinders play a very key role in this. Today we all own the cylinders, but that has to change. In a regulated market, the marketer ‘owns the cylinder, and that’s where the branding comes into play, to differentiate between the eylinders. Where the eylinder does not belong to any particular market, the challenges are Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 enormous, You don't have the history of the cylinder, nobody regulates when the oylinders are due for re-certification. In principle, itis there os @ regulation from SON: 5 years re- certficaion, 10 years re- certfication, 15 years it is pulled out. But, can they trace the ones that are due for re-cerifcation when the oylinders belong to individual owners? More importantly is there a re- qualification cenire in the entire country? ‘And then how do you try and retract the cylinders, because ideally when you take the ojinder {o the filing plant, they should be able to tell you, “no, this is due for the scrap yard" and seize it But will they give you another one? In an unbranded market, who bears the cost? All these things will not happen until there is @ guiding policy in place. Notice that | keep referring back to this policy becouse that is the Bible for any industry. It is very key. So, what we have done in the National Gos policy is recommended that cylinder manufecturing must take ploce because the two cylinder manufacturing factories that we had here both shut down leading fo the emphasis on importation. To de-emphasise that, we made recommendation that for the next two years 100 per cent importation will still be cllowed while we keep trying to resuscitate some of these manufacturing plants ond encourage the emergence of new ones. Its 0 five-year plan. In the third yea, it should be 50 per cent importation and 50 per cent local MUNG: The Megane | EI cover manufaduring, By the fifh year, 100 per cent menufacturing should be going on here. Then you can slam tariffs on imported ojlinders. It is at that stage that you can have a truly branded market. Could you talk us through the National Gas Policy? Whert is its significance for both end users and industry ployers? The importance and the urgency for that policy is for us to be able to have a document that defines the way and manner that the industry will be run. For example, we do not have any building codes for gas. All over the world, if you go to your planning agency for o brand new building or {ocilty, power, weter and gos are token into account. In Nigeria it does not exis. In building codes, there is nothing like gas in there. Bocause there's now a policy, wo can sit down with the Minister of Power, Works and Housing and say we need to have it — and LPG codes are actully in thet policy. That gives you on idea of how for reaching the policy is. In the agricultural sector, for example, © lot of the drying and cooling {aciliies can be un on LPG. In the power sector, we have 7,000 megawatts today sitting idle for lack of gas. But for off grid, Lagos State is doing the Light Up Lagos Projed. Of their 3,000 megawatts, 1000 can be LPG if they want becouse itis localised generation. You are not going to the grid. So, that document captures the essence of the industry, the enforcement, the regulation, the opportunities, and LING: The Mogozine s0 on, The policy gives investors the assurance thot this is a market that is reguloted. In other climes, they have an LPG policy that is constantly updated and reviewed. | have helped review the LPG policies of two countries - while ironicelly, my own country does not have « policy. Now, thankfully, we do. So, that document is extremely important. And more importantly, it has been possed by the Federal Executive Council. That's a stamp of authority, If | go to a bank now all | have to do is thrust the policy at them and they are assured that there is legislative backing. For two or bee U Ie Pome eed Dee CRBC m ay regulated... And ee tr aD has been passed by BU eee Ce ae] Be eed Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 three years when | started venturing inio the LPG business, my dream was fo have a terminal, but no bank would listen. fo me, because they did not understand what it meant to have can LPG terminal. They knew bout fuel, kerosene and diesel, but cooking gas terminal? No! Now, all thet is changing. Techno Gil, for example, is being funded by Access Bank, | believe, to build «@ terminal. About three or four other players are also working on their own terminals. NLNG has committed to delivering even more gas to the market and yet this is not being taken up, what needs to heppen for the market to take full advantage of this offer? The policy document is one step, but we need to take it a step further. When we put thot document together, we were meeting with all stakeholders ‘once a month for over © year, since 2015 - Budget and Planning Office and all the ministries, all stokeholders. We wanted the National Economic Couneil to opprove first before the Federal Executive Council because then we would have the buy in of all the slate governors, and that is critical. | will tell you why. If you dont hove everybody's buy in, it won't work. Ninateen states in Northern Nigeria are suffering from desertification. The only way you can stop it is by having gas ovlinders all over the place. iF people have cylinders and gas they will stop cuting down trees. The only wey ary investor will go cond put up a ofinder foxy there is ifhe knows that there's o cover ojlinder population waiting there. You wont go and spend 120 to 150 millon seling up @ proper filling plant if you have only 20 thousand eyinders scattered in the entire site. You fill 100 today ‘and wait for another one week before you fil another 50, The return on investments is not going to be worth it. We have milions and milions of people in different cities just waiting fo be served. Whats their alternative in the absence of LPG? They are going fo cut trees. We need fo stop that. In stopping that pradiice there needs fo be a massive aworeness campaign. We can do social media, but NTA is critical, FRCN is critical, Radio Lagos, Osun State redio, Katsina State radio, and so on - these are critical, broadcasts in loco! language. Messages need to go out in the local cialects. If you don't have that sersitization programme, the guy who feels thot if he doesn't cook jollof rice with fire wood it wont taste same will go on cutting fire wood, but | have eaten jollof rice in London and it was not cooked with fire ‘wood, but that toste of fire wood was there and | had to osk. The ‘answer is that it was simple seasoning. So, we need fo educate people that [PG is the way to go. is healthier. itis leaner. And itis cheaper too. iis also good business. The governors need fo understand ‘hat the multiplier effect of this thing faking place means that there is employment generation on a massive scale, There's fox revenue on a massive scale. You ore reducing infant mortality and cardiovascular problems. We will save money on importing kerosene that we do not need and make more money from the kerosene for aviation fuel. It's win-win for everybody. Oe Dn co Pure ec Lg updated and reviewed. Thave helped review the LPG policies of two Te RL Pee aor dad Cen ae eee Cea aa TD aR a Which | think leads us to the next question: the relationship between your organisation, NING and, of course, the other operators. And welve heard that falk about how we can develop Nigeria into @ primary hub, but if we dont get that primary level dynamics right then the regional hub will remain a dream. As you know, NING supplies probably 95 per cent of the matket. Our own ospiraiion is to Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 have NING supply 100 per cent, There is no point in having resource in abundance and people can't benefit from it. A lot of the infrastructural challenges that have made it impossible for people fo get the gas are what we are focusing on. Part of the discussions we have had in the past regarding regional hub hos been on the pricing index and how NING can help with o West African pricing index. have seen the commitment and the efforts of NING management, starling form Babs Omotowa when he wos the managing director ond his then deputy, Isa Inuwa to Tony Atta, the present managing director, and the deputy managing director, Sadeeq Mai- Bornu who have been very bullish in their interactions with the Presidency, nudging the government to say this can be done, these are the areos that need your intervention. I have olso seen NLNG's interactions with us, the Nigerian LPG Association, collaborating with the industry. There is also NING's commitment to developing and expanding jetties in Lagos. In your opinion how has NING done in engendering that gas breakthrough in Nigeria? What's left, what's new, what could we do differently? Like | soid | must give credence to the leadership of NLNG - Babs Omotowa, Isa Inuwa, Tony ‘Attoh and Sadeeq Mai Bornu. Government called on you to put 150,000 metric tons into the market. They did not need to call you to increase it fo NUNG: The Magazine cover 250,000. You on your own took it fo 350,000. That shows commitment. You could easily have sat back and said, “Oh this thing is not profitable”, but you knew you had to star from somewhere. | have alvays believed that this market is a 5 million ton market potentially, possibly more. | believe that as Nigerians you are actually commited fo improving the lives of the people. What you ore ‘of engagement with the industry which is critical. Looking chead, in five years’ time, what do you see in the industry? | s00 more ployers. | soe a situation where we will start fo use LPG os second nature, where the gas man comes fo your house, picks up your eylinder, refuels and returns it and in some cases trucks coming to refill gas tonks that supply housing estates. Vol. 4 Nol, 2018 your tonk, These are the kind of things | see. The market is going to get increasingly sophisticated. ‘Competition is going to come into it. Ifs going to be a service culture and that is how it should be. The present scenario of people cheating you while refiling your cyinder without any consequence, no governance document to refer beck fo, the enforcement agencies not thoroughly understanding the industy will graduelly die away. NLNG supplies probably 95 per cent of the market. Our own aspiration is to have NTR van cutee cee aed Pence n de teen ec and people can't benefit from it. A lot of the Cea ee er a Moe impossible for people to get the gas are what we are focusing on. Part of the ee eM Me re regarding regional hub has been on the pricing index and how NLNG can help with OR Coe Ue neni on doing is going to pay off because by the time the sector takes off you are going fo lake over the West AVrica sub-region. So | give credit to NING for taking up that mantle to spearhead the production of LPG, without which the market would not have been able to develop to the siate that iis in now. Yes, they re talking about new ones coming up, but unil then, NING remains the dominant supplier ‘and the dominant force for good in the industry. And more importantly the company has been very recepfive BBY) NG: the moparne I also see LPG making « huge impact in the transport and power seciors. There's market confidence where you call io say you are out of gas and in five minutes somebody comes in o Keke to diop off a filled cylinder ‘and pick up your emply one. Thats where the branding and distribution chain we telked about earlier com Also you can have a technology where we can read your tank level. If you supply hotels, eatery ‘and 89 0n, from here we ean see where your level is and we can send out a truck fo go and refill EGI Corporation in the United States hes only 1 million consumers on their books and they are o fortune 500 company. So it's a numbers game. We have 194 rmillion people here in Nigeria; 100 companies can't service this country if LPG tokes off, and they wll stil be making stupendous money. We reckon that this is « $10.5bn market There 's no way thet the difference won't be clear with a better service culture. You will see regional players, local players and notional players. FEATURE Finally, how do you contend with the onslaught of solar? t doesnt affect us. Solar is good, but fo understand the beauty of LPG, you should visit Gos Terminalling faciliy in loro. 27 offices, oll with fons and air conditioners, hot water, and so on, running on LPG alore. Itis not even connected fo the national grid. Solar cannot compete. Do you know how many miles of solar panels you need to put io generate 500 megawaits. With LPG you can power turbines, power generators; the market is there. ‘And there ore foo many arees for LPG. In transporiation, for instonce, LPG will instantly help reduce the 40 plus milion lites of PMS that we import for cars. Todoy, if you increase the price of LPG in Ghana, there will be uproar because they rely on LPG for use ot their homes and in their cars. | read the other day about lnnoson Automotive making gos powered cars. If you really want to save money, how come all the trucks in the country are not made fo run on LPG. The next set of offical cars mus! be gas-powered. The thing is here, so we are not going outside to go and bring it unlike the PMS thot we have to. import becouse the refineries are not working. I NNPC had keyed in long ogo, all the mega stations from Logos 40 Sokoto will have L7G dispensing points, then you fake all trucks off diesel and PMS. Hts the political will. We sat down with the Vice Presidert of Indonesia and he told us that vihen they came info government, bis wife ee Lys Eye es CO ee aes Ce ee ag ate Lyd Meee Cr Romney be making BY To We reckon that this eT 1) res Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 told him thet there's this gas that is better than kerosene and is goad for the poor people and its clean and all that. Grudgingly, he brought six ministers together and set up an inter-ministerial committee. Six months later he called for their report cnd they said they were sill working on the matter. He said okay and he called Pentamina, go and do this study. They did the study and came ‘back with the report that the government was spending $9 billion on kerosene importation cand that it would cost $2 billion to set up LPG infrastructure. He ‘asked them to go and do it, they soid they hed no money and the Vice President said he would call in Shell, Agip and the rest to undertake the job and Pentomina said, “No, no, no. We'll do the job". And that’s how they did it - in three years. Now that’s « country where the president and the vice do not come from the same pony, but they did it. 's about commitment ond political will, f we really mean fo save money, if we are sineare about improving the power sector, you have 5 million fons of LPG and a potential 10 million tons from marginal field ‘operators, from gas flaring, and from new investors, that are ready to be put fo immediate national service. You should have a cabinet position that reports on the progress being made here; that is how important itis. Thank you. NUNG: The Magazine FEATURE Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 Literature Prize: Power, Politics and a Longlist of 11 By Emeka Agbayi and Elkanah Chawai he struggle for political control and power play dominate the longlist for The Nigeria Prize for Literature, recently announced by the Advisory Board for the Prize. The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited wih cash award of $100,006, is Africa's most presiigious literary prize. The 2018 longlist of 11 plays chosen from 89 entries was selected by a panel of three judges led by Matthew Umukoro, professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Other members of the panel include Mohammed Inuwa Umar-Buratai, Professor of Theatre and Performing Aris and the Dean of the Faculty of Ars at the Ahmadu Bello Universi, (ABU), Zaria; and Ngozi Udengwu, a Senior Lecturer in the Deportment of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The Umukoro-led panel was appointed in February 2018 by the Prof. Ayo Banjo-led Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature which has been administering the prize on behalf of Nigeria LNG Limited since 2010. Entries for the 2018 Prize were received by the judges in April 2018. The longlist for this year’s Prize is as follows: 1. August Inmates by Chidubem Iweka; published by Kraft Books 2. Death and The King’s Grey Hair by Denia Abdullahi; published by Kraft Books 3. Embers by Soji Cole; published by Emotion Press 4. Guerilla Past by Obari Gomba; published FER) M6: the Monarne by Narrative Landscape Press 5. Majestic Revolt by Peter E. Omeko; published by Malthouse Press 6 Melancholia by Dui Johnson; published by Sevhage Publishers 7. NoMore the Taming Hawks by Diran Ademiju-Bepo; published by Dynasty Tales 8. Once Upon an Elephant by Bosede ‘Ademilue-Afolayan; published by Kraft Books 9. Sankara by Jude Idada; published by Parressia Publishing 10, The Rally by Akanji Nosiru; published by Kraft Books 11. Unstable by Dickson Ekhaguere; published by Tiyspect Solutions. Members of the Advisory Board for the Literature Prize, besides Professor Banjo, two- time Vice-Chancellor of Nigeria's premier university, University of Ibadan, are Prof. Jerry Agada, former Minister of State for Education, former President of the Association of Nigerian Authors, and Professor Emeritus, Ban Elugbe, former President of the Nigerion Academy of Letters and President of the West-African Linguistic Society (2004-2013). As in previous years, the contest for Africa's most prestigious literature prize will be keenly contested. The Nigeria Prize for Literature has, since 2004, rewarded eminent writers such as Gabriel Okara (co-winner, 2004, poetry), Professor Ezenwa Ohaeto (co-winner, 2004, FEATURE Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 Le THY EET the King's @ mele atest Rewal AUGUSTINNATES = ’ Cy poeiry) for The Dreamer, His Vision and Chants of a Minstrel respectively; Ahmed Yerima (2005, drama) for his play, Hard Ground: Mabel Segun (co-winner, 2007, children’s literature) for her collection of short plays Reader's Theatre; Professor Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo (co-winner, 2007, children’s literature) for her book, My Cousin Sammy; Kaine Agary (2008, prose) for her book Yellow Yellow. Esiaba Irobi (2010, drama) who clinched the < a prize posthumously with his book Cemetery 7 Road. Others include Adeleke Adeyemi (2011, children's literature) for ff GUERRILLA his book The Missing Clock; Chika Unigwe (2012, prose), for her novel, On Black Sisters’ Street; Tade Ipadeola (2013, poetry) for his collection of poems, The Sahara Testaments, Professor Sam Ukala (2014, drama) for his play, Iredi War; Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (2016, prose) for his novel, Seasons of Crimson Blossoms and lkeogu Oke (2017, poetry) for his collection The Heresiad. The Nigeria Prize for Literoture alternating amongst four literary genres prose fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature - will his yeor be awarded to the best work submitted in the drama genre. NING: The Magas ‘ber of Commerce and Industry (LCC) Nike Akonde, Fomer minister and member of the Scienze Pize Advisory Board, spzaking a the oven NLNG Partners with LCCI on World Malaria Day By Oladapo Kelani part of the conlinued search for long- standing solutions to melaria scourge ind in commemoration of 2018 World ‘Malaria Day (WMD), Nigeria LNG Limited recently partnered with The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to organize an. interactive session themed “Innovations in Malaria Control’. The session which held at the Lagos Chamber, Victoria Island in Lagos, afforded the joint winners of the 2017 edition of The Nigeria Prize for Science an opportunity to present their winning works on Malaria to members of the medical and pharmaceutical wing of Lagos ‘A partion! responds Chamber of Commerce and Industry. also Re pretation created an avenue for industry stakeholders to FEATURE possibly commercialize and advance the novel discoveries in the control of malaria, thus bridging the divide between scientific research, patents and production. Dignitaries at the occasion included Mrs Toki Mabogunie, Vice President, LCCI representing, Babatunde Ruwase, President, CCI, Mr Muda Yusuf, Direcior General of LCCI, Emeritus Professor Alfred Susu, Chairman of the Advisory Board for The Nigeria Frize for Science and pioneer winner of the prize, Chief (Dr.) Mrs Nike Akande, two-lime Minisler of Industry and member of Advisory Board! for The Nigeria Prize for Science, alongside representatives of NING Management. Declaring the session open, Mr Babatunde Ruwase, called for more support fo foster a better stakeholder engagement towards getting more funding for the fight egainst malaria in Nigeria. Also speaking at the event, Chief (Dr) Mrs Nike Akande highlighted the partnership as «@ fulfilment of her personal aspiration to foster Vol. 4 No 1, 2018 the much desired handchake between the

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