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The 'Foolish Man' and his mega refinery complex

Chief Bayo Onanuga writes; Some years ago, Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man invited media leaders to a luncheon at the Protea Hotel in Ikeja to mark his 55th birthday. Some of his guests sat around him at the centre table. They chatted freely. Discussions about our country, and the state of the economy soon veered into discussing the absurdity of our country, being a major crude exporter, and also a major importer of refined petroleum products. Our colleague from a major business paper said the local conditions were unfavourable to any investor who wanted to build a refinery. He then made a remark that I believe he would live to regret: "Only a foolish man will build a refinery in Nigeria". Aliko who had listened to all our business and political pontifications, interjected: "I am that foolish man". A pin-drop silence enveloped the table as he dropped the unexpected news: "My company has just decided to build a refinery in the country. But we are doing it big". Those were his exact words, as the multi-dollar billionaire told us he was willing to spend close to $9 billion on the project. The media big man became speechless. The rest of us caught the contagion of being flummoxed as well, as Aliko expatiated on the project. He said it will be a petrochemical complex. As the project was still on the drawing board, he did not tell us it will be the biggest refinery in the world, capable of processing 650,000 barrels of crude daily. All the hint he gave was that it will be 'big'. Our takeaway was that it will be big like Aliko's involvement in cement, sugar, pasta, and other businesses. He didn't say it will include a fertilizer plant and a power plant that can supply enough electricity to Nigeria's South West, excluding Lagos. Initially billed for Ogun State, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery surprisingly shifted location to Lagos, just opposite the creek separating the two states. Governor Dapo Abiodun may want to probe his predecessor, Ibikunle Amosun, why he allowed the complex to move to neighbouring Lagos. The gigantic project, which cost $15 billion, is now sitting in all majesty in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Ibeju-Lekki, covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares, seven times the size of Victoria Island. The complex is the world’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels per day Petroleum Refinery with 900 KTPA Polypropylene Plant. It comes with a 435 MW Power Plant, which will be able to meet the total power requirement of Ibadan DisCo of 860,316 MWh covering five States including Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Kwara, and Ekiti. The refinery, according to its fact sheet, can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement for all refined products, including Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosene, and Aviation Jets. It will also be able to produce a surplus of each of these products for export. Designed for 100% Nigerian Crude, the refinery has the flexibility to process other crudes. No wonder it is located near the seashore. Today President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the gigantic petrochemical complex. Just as we rejoice with Aliko Dangote and the Dangote Group family, we need to give kudos to the Buhari administration for ensuring that the complex comes to fruition, by ensuring that it was not starved of needed foreign exchange and taking a stake in it. For Aliko, all is well that ends well. The complex will bring to an end our country's many decades of shame, for being unable to refine its crude and having to depend on importation, wasting scarce forex. The 'foolish man' of 11 years ago has demonstrated once again that he is a man of wisdom, a peerless shrewd investor who sees clearly the 'bigger picture' when his compatriots are bogged down by parochialism and immediate monetary gains. Read the full article

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Ogun APC Felicitates Governor Abiodun on National Award

Ogun APC Felicitates Governor Abiodun on National Award

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has felicitated the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, on the award of excellence for industrial revolution presented to him over the weekend by the President of the Federal Republic, President Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement issued in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on Saturday and signed by the Chairman of APC in Ogun State Chief Yemi…

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Tinubu, Shettima, APC governors meet Jonathan

Tinubu, Shettima, APC governors meet Jonathan

Former president Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday met with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu who paid him a visit at his ABuja residence. Tinubu was accompanied by his running mate, Kashim Shettima and some governors of APC extraction including Dapo Abiodun of Ogun; Simon of Plateau and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, among others. Apart from a picture that…

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Dapo Abiodun Meets Tinubu In Paris (Photo) 

Dapo Abiodun Meets Tinubu In Paris   Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has met with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, in Paris, France. The duo of Tinubu and Abiodun are members of the ruling APC. Sharing a picture on his social media handles, Abiodun said he spent quality time with Tinubu, the national leader of the APC. According to him, the two…

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Knee surgery: Gov Abiodun visits Osoba in London

Knee surgery: Gov Abiodun visits Osoba in London

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has visited former Governor Olusegun Osoba in London, where he is recovering after a knee replacement surgery. Abiodun, who just returned from a foreign trip said the octogenarian was recuperating well. The governor said he would be happy to welcome Osoba back to Nigeria in no distant time. On his verified Facebook page, Abiodun shared a picture of himself and…

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Abidemi Rufai Reportedly Defraud $350,000 From US Government -

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Abidemi Rufai Reportedly Defraud $350,000 From US Government -

Abidemi Rufai, the suspended Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, purportedly duped Washington State Employment Security Department utilizing 10 distinct methods, a court report got by The PUNCH has uncovered.

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In the record, Rufai was said to have submitted more than 100 cases to the Washington Employment Department, and had likewise presented extra cases to the state labor force offices for different states.

The Nigerian supposedly did the plan by utilizing the taken characters of American laborers.

“In this manner, Rufai caused and endeavored to cause, the Employment Security Department to pay out government and other joblessness benefits in overabundance of $350,000, and falsely made different states pay out extra advantage installments,” a piece of the archive peruses.

Rufai’s misrepresentation prosecution, capture and detainment

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The PUNCH reports that Abidemi Rufai has been in authority since his capture on May 14, 2021, at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York.

He was consequently accused of duping Washington State Employment Security Department of more than $350,000.

The arraignment thusly prompted his suspension as a Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties, Abidemi Rufai.

However he applied for abandon Wednesday, May 19, 2021, the application was denied as his sibling couldn’t manage the $300,000 “guarantee” bond.

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The suspect was subsequently confined at the Western District of Washington from where he is going to additional court procedures.

Be that as it may, the 42-year-old Nigerian had denied the criminal allegations recorded against him.

The plan Rufai supposedly controlled

The suspended Ogun lead representative’s assistant supposedly endeavored to cheat the US organization utilizing a Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act ordered on March 27, 2020 in the United States

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The CARES Act approved roughly $2 trillion in help to American laborers, families, and organizations to relieve the monetary results of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CARES Act subsidized, and approved each state to direct new joblessness benefits. These advantages include: Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), which gave an advantage of $600 each week per jobless laborer as well as existing advantages.

Others are Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, which stretches out advantages to independently employed people, self employed entities, and others; and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Assistance , which expands benefits for an extra 13 weeks after normal joblessness benefits are depleted.

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CARES Act joblessness benefits are subsidized by the United States government through the Department of Labor, and regulated at the state level by state offices known as state labor force organizations (SWAs). The Washington Employment Security Department is the SWA for the State of Washington.

CARES Act joblessness benefits are approved, moved, dispensed and paid regarding a cross country crisis announced by Presidential Proclamation 9994 (viable as of March 1, 2020) and a Presidential revelation of a significant debacle for the State of Washington concerning the COVID-19 pandemic that was given on March 22, 2020.

The trick

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Among the charges evened out against the 42-year-old Nigerian is a trick.

The report expressed that Rufai and other co-schemers started their moves no later than approximately April 27, 2020, and proceeding through to some degree approximately June 2, 2020, at Olympia, inside the Western District of Washington, and somewhere else.

“Rufai, a/k/a Sandy Tang, along with others known and obscure to the Grand Jury, schemed, confederate and concur, together and with one another, to submit the offense of wire misrepresentation infringing upon Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.

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“That is, ABIDEMI RUFAI, along with others known and obscure, with plan to swindle, purposely contrived a plan and guile to cheat, and to acquire cash and property, through substantially bogus and false misrepresentations, portrayals, and guarantees. To execute and endeavor to execute the plan and ingenuity to cheat, ABIDEMI RUFAI, along with others known and obscure, intentionally sent, and caused to be sent by wire correspondence in highway and unfamiliar business, works, signs, signals, pictures and sounds,” a piece of the archive added.

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“Woke Up Missing You, Love You Bro” – Davido Remembers Late Friend, Dj Olu

“Woke Up Missing You, Love You Bro” – Davido Remembers Late Friend, Dj Olu

Nigerian superstar singer, Davido, today remembered his late friend, DJ Olu who mysteriously died months ago Banana Island, Lagos. Dj Olu was Billionaire Dapo Abiodun’s son and was among his three friends that died at that time last year. Davido shared a picture of the late DJ Olu on social media revealing that he misses […]

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Governor of Ogun State, H E. Prince Dr. Dapo Abiodun; Awujale of Ijebuland, HRM, Oba (Dr.) Sikiru Kayode Adetona and Former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniels all pictured together at the Heritage Reception held in honour of the Governor at the Palace of the Awujale in Ijebu Ode. . #ogunstate #dapoabiodun #ogd #awujaleofijebu #featinternationalblog #featmedia #featentertainment #ijebu #ijebupeople https://www.instagram.com/p/ByhnERQBqdX/?igshid=qc0x7hwr0p8m

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Amosun needs a refresher grammar class

By Victor Ojelabi Recent statement credited to Senator Ibikunle Amosun, positing that he inherited a failed state from OGD is at best ludicrous. Amosun, who is at the twilight of his administration has embarked on a self-adulating adventure across all news media, as a last palliative to his badly bruised ego. One of his strategies is to promote the narrative that his administration was too remarkable to be compared with any other and as such deserves the eminence of being succeeded by a person of his choosing. It is no longer news that his ubiquitous effort to foist Akinlade on the people of Ogun suffered hard punches both at home (in his party APC) and abroad (with APM). This was despite travail at frustrating opposition during political campaigns and the loose-belt election budget, reported to have been funded from state treasury. Aftermath of the shocking defeat to Dapo Abiodun (a candidate who barely had the chance to campaign in the state without resistance, or even implement his plan for billboards, posters and other OOH), Amosun has been engaged in vile attacks on everyone he feels had a contribution to Dapo’s success. Social media even made a mockery of his fruitless flights to Abuja for picture panorama with the president in a bid to appeal to Buharists. It is therefore not strange that OGD is on the lips of Amosun at this moment. First, we all know how Gbenga Daniel surreptitiously used his political structure to ensure Dapo Abiodun’s victory. Second, how can the almighty Amosun not find a way to explain how unpopular his government has become. His error though is that he drew a mirror too close to his hanging balls while trying to reflect the nudes of his predecessor. That Ibikunle called OGD’s government a failure, means one of these two things; its either a case of psychosis or a pitiful deficiency in grammar. For what it’s worth let’s treat Amosun’s claims of achievements on its merit and juxtapose with that of OGD’s, to provide perspective. Amosun claimed that when he assumed office in 2011, investors were running away from the state, “because of high level of insecurity”! Well, that may be a figment of his imagination, because during OGD’s 8 years, major multinationals, among several industries, built and opened their factories in Ogun. Nestle Foods, Dangote Cement at Ibese, Multirex Cocoa Industry, Coleman Wire & Cable, to mention a few, came on stream to provide jobs for Ogun people. The facts are there to be verified. On the contrary, during Amosun’s administration, PZ Cussons, Glaxosmithkline announced their exit. On the matter of insecurity, Amosun’s administration had its infamy on matter of insecurity. Under who’s watch was the scary rein of the’ Bado Boys’ of Ikorodu/Sagamu, the militancy at Arepo? Amosun claimed his government grew the state IGR from N700million to N7billion.Even though this cannot be verified, let’s still take it for a fact. The import of this is that the government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun had an extra monthly income of about N6.3billion that his predecessor hadn’t! Judging by this, what was Ogun doing among the committee of debtor-states with respect to workers’ salaries and allowances? Lagos state who is famous for its sporadic IGR growth owed none during same period, a proof of independence, the glory Senator Amosun is trying to lay claim to. More so Amosun’s strategy was to use part-payments as gloss, so he could confidently claim not to owe. But as at press time the total deductions from Ogun state worker’s pay was estimated to be over N20billion. There is general anxiety among workers that they may never get their monies, and definitely the debt will be passed on to the new Dapo Abiodun’s government. The OGD’s administration that the Senator claimed left a failed state, didn’t leave a wage-debt burden. It is also appalling that during this period (last four years) the state is estimated to have made an extra N302billion income besides federal allocation (going by Amosun’s IGR claim)! There is not doubt that the masses were the last thing on the mind of this administration. Amosun ran an elitist government, which was in sharp contract to Gbenga Daniel’s inclusive government. The roads and bridges Amosun and his Chinese friends built across the state were at the expense of people’s livelihood. The essence of infrastructural development is to enhance livelihood not kill it. Pulling down shops, houses that the poor’s live-line, with was no big deal to his government. OGD had a more humane approach to infrastructure development. When OGD was to embark on the dualisation of the Abeokuta-Kobape-Siun-Sagamu highway, turning it into a 37.5 -kilometre express road, he first built brand new brick houses with electricity for the owners of houses on the projects path. These were people who owned mud houses, and lived with no electricity. It was only after the people where relocated that project kicked off. In fact some residents of Orile Imo whose mud houses were far from the road and were not marked for demolition trooped to the Governor’s Office, lobbying that their shanties should be demolished and replaced with this new luck OGD bonanza houses. To cap it all let’s do a refresher very few OGD projects: a. Dualisation of Abeokuta-Sagamu road, Lalubu road and a host of others. b. Building of new stadia at Ijebu-Ode, Sagamu and Ilaro; and transformation of the existing MKO Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta. c. The Olusegun Obasanjo Hilltop Estate, the OGD workers estate (which made 1000 civil servants of all grades including drivers and messengers to become landlord and landladies) d. Transformation of Olumo Rock, turning it into a money-spinning machine with the introduction of an elevator to take tourists to the top of the rock e. Other landmark projects were also underway before Amosun came in and thwarted them. Some worth mentioning are the Agri Cargo airport, Olokola deep seaport project as well as Ogun Guadong. These are physical projects that are still available for verification. How all these achievements somersault into leaving a ‘failed state’ is bereft of common sense. As Senator Ibikunle Amosun spends his last days as the executive governor of Ogun State, many would expect that he embraces fate, accepts defeat and move on to an elder statesmen position, providing guidance for subsequent governments. OGD is doing this just as well as those before him. Casting aspersions is not only a disservice to humanity, but a slap on the face of Ogun people, who had to endure 8-years of his draconian government. But as they say, common sense is not common. Read the full article

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Breaking: President Buhari To Honour Dapo Abiodun With Industrial Revolution Award Tomorrow

Breaking: President Buhari To Honour Dapo Abiodun With Industrial Revolution Award Tomorrow

In recognition of his efforts to enhance rapid industrialisation, enhance the ease of doing business and make the state Nigeria’s top investment destination, the Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun will, on Friday, October 21, be decorated by President Muhammadu Buhari with the Distinguished Award for Industrial Revolution. This was made known in a letter dated September 21, 2022 and…

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Olamide meets governor-elect, Dapo Abiodun, one week after bagging appointments in Ogun State (photos) Olamide has commenced with his appointment in Ogun State as the singer is pictured in a meeting with Governor-elect and Deputy-elect. The post Olamide meets governor-elect, Dapo Abiodun, one week after bagging appointments in Ogun State (photos) appeared first on Within Nigeria.

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NEWS DAILY: Ogun: Abiodun takes photos of his achievements to Buhari in Abuja

NEWS DAILY: Ogun: Abiodun takes photos of his achievements to Buhari in Abuja

Barely three days after President Muhammadu Buhari revealed that he sent back two Southwest governors who visited him over farmers/herders clashes, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has once again visited the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja. This time, Abiodun was in Abuja on a working visit to the President, as he showed him photos of his projects. In pictures made available to DAILY POST, Gov Abiodun…

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Ogun Governor, Abiodun under fire for holding Coronavirus meeting without experts in attendance [Photos]

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has come under heavy criticism for meeting with some members of his cabinet on “how to flatten COVID-19 curve” without the Commissioner for Health, Mrs Tomi Coker, in attendance. DAILY POST reports that Abiodun, around 11:32pm on Friday, released pictures of himself, the Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele; the Secretary […]

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Ogun: Abiodun takes photos of his achievements to Buhari in Abuja

Ogun: Abiodun takes photos of his achievements to Buhari in Abuja

Barely three days after President Muhammadu Buhari revealed that he sent back two Southwest governors who visited him over farmers/herders clashes, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has once again visited the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja. This time, Abiodun was in Abuja on a working visit to the President, as he showed him photos of his projects. In pictures made available to DAILY POST, Gov Abiodun…

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Tinubu Finally Speaks On Ogun Rally Incident, Reveals Why He Threw Away The Party’s Flag

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Tinubu Finally Speaks On Ogun Rally Incident, Reveals Why He Threw Away The Party’s Flag

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has broken silence on the incident that occurred at the party’s presidential rally in Ogun state on Monday, Igberetvnews reports.

Tinubu denied claims that he was planning to leave the party as a result of the incident. He said he remains “gidigba” in the ruling party.

The former Lagos governor was seen in a video throwing the party’s flag after the crowd that attended the presidential rally pelted its leaders with various objects.

While reports claim that Tinubu threw the flag out of anger, the APC leader explained that he threw it to the national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to give to the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Prince Dapo Abiodun .

He accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of framing this to mean that he was throwing away the party’s flag.

A statement late Tuesday, February 12, by his special adviser, media, Tunde Rahman, the APC leader denied throwing away the party’s flag as being insinuated by PDP.

“If you want to fault Asiwaju for anything in this matter, your critique can only be limited to the accuracy of his toss. Any attempt to enlarge the episode beyond this is fiction and mischief writ large,” he clarified in the statement.

The politician agreed that an incident did actually occur at the Ogun state APC rally, but added that it was not the way the PDP made the story look.

“The true incident that should be reported and condemned is that people who furtively oppose the party and the president tried to infiltrate and disrupt this rally. The attack by these operatives was disrespectful of the office of the president and could have potentially harmed the person of the president”.

“With but a few precious days until the election and with its chance of victory running out even faster than the time, the Peoples Democratic Party now grasps at the most nonsensical and desperate tactics to salvage its falling enterprise.

“However, a drowning man cannot toss himself a lifeline. Nor can the PDP succeed in turning the innocuous attempted exchange of a flag between the National Leader and national chairman into a rift in the APC’s successful campaign.

“An incident did actually occur at the Ogun state APC rally but it is not the one PDP has concocted. The true incident that should be reported and condemned is that people who furtively oppose the party and the president tried to infiltrate and disrupt this rally. The attack by these operatives was disrespectful of the office of the president and could have potentially harmed the person of the president.

“Such antics have no place in our political discourse. The author of these misdeeds should desist before real harm is done. Now to the crux of the opposition’s latest antics; if the issue of the flag has become the hotspot of the PDP campaign, then they are in serious trouble.

“During that portion of the Ogun rally, the national chairman and others were looking for a party flag. Asiwaju Tinubu spotted one within his reach. He picked it up and attempted to toss it to chairman Oshiomhole so that the chairman could present it to the party’s gubernatorial candidate Prince Dapo Abiodun. If you want to fault Asiwaju for anything in this matter, your critique can only be limited to the accuracy of his toss. Any attempt to enlarge the episode beyond this is fiction and mischief writ large.

“As the national leader, Asiwaju Tinubu is thoroughly faithful and committed to the APC. It is unthinkable that he would leave the party. Moreover, there is no reason for him to do so. He has been hard at work for the victory of the APC and all of its candidates in the upcoming election.

“Asiwaju understands the bigger picture. He knows what is at stake in this election. Either the nation moves forward along the progressive path of the APC or it will be forced to retreat into the ills of the past created by the PDP. With the nation’s future hanging in the balance, Asiwaju will not allow himself to be deterred by petty mischief.

“Those spinning this matter should make better use of their imaginations. Asiwaju is not going anywhere. He remains gidigba (solid) in APC. And after the election, he will be there celebrating the APC’s and this nation’s victory over those who would prevent us our rightful future,” he said.

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Check out Photos of Ooni Of Ife Visits Dapo Abiodun

Check out Photos of Ooni Of Ife Visits Dapo Abiodun

Check out Photos of Ooni Of Ife Visits Dapo Abiodun

The newly elected governor of Ogun state Dapo Abiodun hosted the Ooni of Ife at his resident.

Dapo who shared the picture Captioned…

“I had the rare honour of receiving an eminent Traditional Ruler in Yorubaland & indeed Nigeria, the Ooni of Ife, HRM Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja ll. I am so humbled by your significant visit all the way from…