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Is Alpha
Beach another Bar Beach saga in the making?
Alpha Beach in the Lekki
peninsula is gradually being wiped out as you read these lines. The
culprit is the Atlantic Ocean. In the past few weeks, most of the shanties
and shacks that used to serve the hospitality industry are gone; their
owners left without their businesses. Most importantly that pristine
ecosystem has been taken over by the ocean waters and it is now becoming
a nightmare to people who have erected palatial mansions on that waterfront.
What will they do?
Read more...
Other Articles &
Interviews
Capt
Adeyemo on River Niger Dredging...NEW
Prof
P.C. Nwilo on his assessment of NIWA during sabbatical ...NEW
Mr
Nseyeng Ebong on his 8-year tenure as rector of Maritime Academy
of Nigeria Oron...NEW
Chief
Dumo Lulu Briggs as
chairman of Maritime Academy of Nigeria Oron, his vision...NEW
Engr
Muyiwa Omasebi: The face-off Between NIWA, MMSD and Lagos State Govt.
Otunba
K Folarin: The Collapse
of Nig. shipping lines.
P.L.
Carrodano: How govt
can revive Nig. shipping lines.
Sam
Epia: The struggles
of Nig shipping lines with cargo reservation scheme.
Jeff
Gibb: Intricacies of
the equipment market in Nigeria.
Environmental
Quality Monitoring.
Environment: "How
many choppers has DPR got?" - Chief Ogunsiji.
Dredging the Niger Delta: Interview of Ben Efekarurhobo.
Role
of Surveying in the Dredging Industry
G.B Liman:
Of Myth, Reality and Resource Control
Dredging
Law: A judgment on the ownership of a sand dredging site by the
Court of Appeal.
Dredging
Law:
a.
Lagos State Attorney General Interpretes state law on sand dredging
and stockpile.
b.
NIWA public notice on Lagos State intervention in inland waterways regulation.
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Is
Alpha Beach another Bar Beach saga in the making?
Alpha Beach in the Lekki
peninsula is gradually being wiped out as you read these lines. The
culprit is the Atlantic Ocean. In the past few weeks, most of the shanties
and shacks that used to serve the hospitality industry are gone; their
owners left without their businesses. Most importantly that pristine
ecosystem has been taken over by the ocean waters and it is now becoming
a nightmare to people who have erected palatial mansions on that waterfront.
What will they do? And, for that matter, what will the government at
various levels do for remediation, if possible? We have covered the
story in some depths, within the permissible press time available to
us.
In a related segment of the economy, the young tenure of Mr Patrick
Akpobolokemi at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
(NIMASA) is being looked upon by industry stakeholders to become a watershed
in the struggle of indigenous operators to take over the industry as
the laws intended and as is the practice in other emerging maritime
nations like India, Venezuela, Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia. In this
edition, our interviewees, chiefly Dr Wilson Omene Odafe and Engineer
Akin Olaniyan, hands-on practitioners in the industry, having x-rayed
the state of things in the sector, advise the new director-general to
break new grounds by correcting the deviations of the past which saw
NIMASA engrossed more with what they call “peripheral” duties
instead of its core mandate. The new helmsman’s recent activities
suggest a new direction to pursue close working relations with associations
and groups in the industry which have been clamouring for this change
to re-align with the original mandate to improve Nigerian participation
in international shipping. We bring you news, analysis and interviews
to portray this prevailing mood.
The Nigerian dredging industry is also riding the tempo of high-profile
projects like the recent dredging of the lower Niger and epoch-making
landmarks like the Eko Atlantic City project whose reclamation at the
Bar Beach in Lagos seems to be racing to a conclusion. But many other
companies that used to be vibrant in the sector are now less so due
to the vagaries of uncertain business fortunes in a struggling economy
like Nigeria’s. In our Nigerian Dredging Profile supplement, some
space has been taken to update on the current realities and firms still
on ground.
We have also served in this edition a special focus on the world of
green field port development in Nigeria: the case of a deep sea port
being planned for Ibaka by the Nigerian Ports Authority and the Akwa
Ibom State Government. After a detailed presentation of the investment
background, we look at the prospects and politics and some of the viability
problems of such a highly desirable development.
Among our star interviews, we have veered off the beaten track to serve
you the nitty-gritty of running a local government in Nigeria from the
perspective of a maritime expert who worked as private consultant to
Dr Kema Chikwe, former transport minister in 1999. He is Dr Wilson Omene
Odafe, a pioneer staff of the defunct National Maritime Authority. He
regales us with the rigour of politics at that primary level and, speaking
from this insight, queries aspects of the federal government’s
amnesty programme for ex-militants, Niger Delta youth restiveness and
the path to lasting peace and the needed adjustments for a revenue allocation
formula favouring local government authorities in the country.
Finally, does the rising Asian superpower, China, need Africa? You have
to read the observations of Pier Luigi Carrodano, group managing director
of the Comet Group of Companies, the agents of China Shipping in Nigeria,
to find out that the critical nexus between Nigerian sea trade and the
hugely expanding appetite of the Chinese economic machine.
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