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DREDGERS FOR HIRE AND PARTIAL IMPORTATION TO NIGERIA.

The following dredging equipment are available for hire for work in Nigeria.

1. Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (1300 m3 hopper capacity)

2. Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (4700 m3 hopper capacity).

3. IHC Beaver Wheel Dredger.

If you have interest in any of these machines, please contact us: +234 1 7928166; +234 (0)803 337 8735; or by email to editor@ddhmag.com

In the News:

NIWA/ LASG Power Tussle: NIWA stops approved dredging, as LASG revokes Aja-Badoreh Road right of occupancy...

The Lagos State has issued a proclamation by public notice revoking all parcels of land along Aja-Badoreh Road in Etiosa Local Government Area of Lagos State with effect from November 2008. In a newspaper public notice published in the Guardian of November 17, 2008, the State Government said the order came into effect within seven days of the published notice. It was signed by the state Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN).

The notice said the revocation was being made in the “overriding public interest” to facilitate the dualisation of the Aja-Badoreh road. There have been speculations that the proposed Lagos Fourth Mainland Bridge would be joined to the Aja-Badoreh to link to Ikorodu and its environs.

The Aja-Badoreh land became quite popular as a dredging destination where over 14 indigenous dredging companies stockpiled sand for many years until late 2007 when the administration of the new Governor turned the tables on the operator with various charges ranging from environmental degradation of the dredging sites, over-dredging of the river to damage of the newly made Aja-Badoreh expressway with their haulage trucks. Even clamours from the immediate community dwellers for caution to the dredge operators played into the hands of the those who wanted the dredging firms out of the area.

Further dredging operations were halted and the operators struggled to be allowed to sell off already stockpiled sand. Some challenged the actions of the state government claiming that their operating coordinates approved by the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) entitled them to continuous operation. But it was obvious from the evidence of damages to the new road that someone was in the offence. Ultimately, the State Government has had its way and banned further use of the waterway for commercial dredging activities.

That remained the situation till the latest development. The public notice requires all persons with claims to contact the appropriate state government within 21 days but that no claims from interested persons shall be entertained after the expiration of twelve months from the date of notice.

The total land area being acquired according to the notice is 72.803 hectares.

4th Quarter 2008

NEWS

Editorial:

Niger Delta: When The Dust Begins To Clear

The white man who came to tap oil in 1958 seems to have run his course in the Niger Delta. It’s 2008 and the world has changed. Both in the larger Nigeria, the Niger Delta and in most other parts of the globe, wherever feelings of being repressed abound, self determinism is increasingly finding its voice.

In the Niger Delta, 50 years of crude oil production has worsted the reputation of the oil majors who gained mining and prospecting licenses from poorly informed civilian regimes and bungling military juntas. Since the turn of the new millennium, all manners of skirmishes now greet the presence and operations of these oil majors and their cronies, minions and hangers-on. Now the communities are on the ascendancy with diverse methodologies but all aimed at the singular goal of appropriating more of the petrodollar. More...