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For the Records

MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO THE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES ON PETROLEUM ON THE DRAFT BILL TO REGULATE THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA. 29^th July 2009.

Development Information Network makes the following submissions with respect to the Bill before this Honourable Body.

1.     We submit that the industry regulatory framework should engage deeper work than has been done in the bill, as broad as the Bill currently is. We therefore suggest that in view of the fact that there are other Bills before the National Assembly with impact on the industry, this Bill be withdrawn and be represented as three separate Bills as follows: (more…)

The European Union (EU) has approved six new water and sanitation projects for Anambra State .

The projects are worth N85 million and would be implemented by six local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as grant contracts.

The grants are to support the local NGOs to implement innovation water supply and sanitation projects in communities in Anambra State with the objective of contributing to improved access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation to the people in the State. (more…)

Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has urged the Lagos State Government to impose and enforce handover deadlines on contractors handling projects in the state and to collaborate with the Federal Government to rehabilitate all major roads in the state.

The party said its investigations showed that contractors failed to respect set deadlines when executing building, road, drainage and other projects in the state.”

“Some of the road projects have dragged on for over two years, with the contractors mobilised to site and apparently running on the spot, with little to show for the project lifespan, carrying on as if the projects would last ad infinitum,” DPA said in a statement by its Lagos State Director of Publicity, Felix Oboagwina. (more…)

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 Business Line reports that Indian Oil Corporation Ltd will buy oil from Cairn India’s Rajasthan field at a discounted price to Nigerian Bonny Light crude. (more…)

The 2009 Hoopers Basketball Elite Camp opens in Port Harcourt Nigeria tomorrow with 80 players participating from Nigeria, Republic of Benin and Cote d’Ivoire (more…)

An International workshop on urban water and sanitation reform kicks off today in Kathmandu, Nepal, with four Nigerian water activists participating

Convened by WaterAid UK, the workhsop is aimed at improving civil society participation in water sector reform process in several countries including Nigeria.

Many urban water and sanitation utilities in developing are not able to deliver efficient service to consumers, and are often bedeviled by organisational, technical, financial, and commercial problems (more…)

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Climatic changes may led to the loss of 15000 square kilometres of the land in Nigeria’s Niger Delta and the displacement of at least 28 million people in the region by 2100, a research study has revealed.

The study  entitled the The impact of Sea level Rise on the Coastline of Nigeria conducted by Awosika, L. F., French, G. T., Nicholls, R. J. and Ibe, C. E. also states that a one meter rise in sea level by the year 2100 will cost Nigeria about $9 billion as a result of  human displacement and dislocation of livelihoods.

A Nigerian Non Governmental Organisation, the Community Research and Development Centre (CREDC) in a report prepared on this issue in June 2009, noted that: “while climate change will lead to increase aridity and desertification in northern Nigeria, it will lead to flooding in the southern part especially in the coastal regions. In many communities in the Niger Delta region, several houses have been abandoned by the owners due to floods resulting from heavy and brief rainfall, and many more areas in the region are vulnerable to floods”

Flooding in Benin city, Nigeria

The full report is reproduced below: (more…)

Ojo Maduekwe..Obama told me: 'I am coming to Nigeria very very soon'

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Nigeria’s foreign Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe yesterday claimed that he has received a pledge from US President Barack Obama that he will visit Nigeria ‘very very soon’

Speaking during the formal presentation of three books written by the Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim,  at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos , Maduekwe claimed he personally met  President Obama during the recent G8 meeting in Italy, where  Obama ‘held me by the shoulders, and promised to come to Nigeria, very very soon’

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• Senate President David Mark appeals to Striking university teachers to go back to classes in order not to lose public sympathy #
• Students and Non academic staff of Lagos state University call for removal of the Institutions Vice Chancellor, Professor Hussein #
• Nigeria’s Federal Minister of Power says solution not yet in sight for Nigeria’s epilectic power supply #
• Nigeria’s Senate throws out Presidential that seeks to amend Nigeria electoral laws #
• Lagos state Governor says 5% consumption tac levied on Hotels and Restarants will be used to finance infrastructural development #
• Nigerian oil minister Rilwanu Lukman says the Oil reform bill before the National Assembly will move Nigeria will move in one step from one #

• Nigeria’s Federal Legislators threaten to impeach President Yar’adua over failure to implement the 2009 Budget #