The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday, November 2, in Abuja said it would create one million jobs in the Agasha/Guma area of Benue trough of a bio-fuel project.
Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru
The NNPC had on October 31, 2917 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ondo State Government to establish a 65,000 million litres bio-fuel plant in Ondo to provide one million jobs.
The NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, said this in a statement by Mr Ndu Ughamadu, the Corporation’s Group General Manager Group Public Affairs Division.
“Benue State stands to benefit a lot, especially in the area of employment generation as the project has the capacity to generate about one million direct and indirect jobs.
“Other benefits of the bio-fuels project include a sugar cane feedstock plantation of about 20,000 hectares; a cane mill and raw/refined sugar plant capable of producing 126,000 tonnes annually.
“Also, a fuel-ethanol processing plant capable of producing 84 million litres annually will be included.
“With the bio-fuels projects, we hope to establish the Bagasse co-generation power plant which will generate 64 MegaWatts; a carbon dioxide recovery and bottling plant that will produce 2, 000 tonnes annually.
“There will also be an animal feed plant that will produce 63, 000 tons annually,’’ Baru said.
Leading a delegation from the Corporation to Gov. Samuel Ortom, Baru urged him to facilitate the release of the Certificate of Occupancy for the 50,000 hectares of land required for the bio-fuels project.
“I am convinced that the success of the results from IDSL’s seismic data acquisition will lead to the drilling of exploration wells in these areas.
“This, hopefully, would launch Benue state into the league of oil-producing states in the country,’’ Baru said.
Responding, Gov. Ortom expressed delight over NNPC’s oil exploration and bio-fuels projects in the state, assuring of the total support of the people.
“I can assure you of our total support for these projects.
“We will work with our traditional institutions to sensitise our people to the need to massively support you,’’ Ortom said.
A trainer in emotional intelligence, anger and stress management, Mr Isaac Onoja, has advised allied health workers to employ all aspects of emotional intelligence to reposition the health sector.
University College Hospital, Ibadan
Onoja, who is also a pharmacist and neuro-linguistic programmer, gave this advice on Thursday, November 2, 2017 in a lecture he delivered in Ibadan.
It was organised by the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), University College Hospital (UCH) chapter, to mark the 2017 Health Week of the union.
The theme of the week is entitled: “Emotional Intelligence in Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria”.
He said: “To heal the health sector, all team members must activate emotional intelligence.
“Once this is done, the sector will come out stronger. Health workers should never drive patients away by going on strike.”
Onoja described Emotional Intelligence as “the ability to understand and manage your emotions and those of people around you”.
According to him, people with high emotional intelligence know what they are feeling, what their emotions mean and how these emotions can affect other people.
Onoja listed the five key elements of emotional intelligence which every leader must possess to include self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.
“Nigeria health sector is in crisis today because the health workers had failed to employ these key elements. A leader must be able to manage each of these areas effectively,’’ he said.
Onoja decried the situation among health workers, where strike was employed as the last resort in driving home their demands from the government.
“Sick people are our targets as health workers and when hospitals are closed down during strike, the patients are driven away and so their money, too.
“People who hold down other members of the team will never win.
“The health sector is like a field track race. Every member must remain in his track. Doctors should stay on their tracks while allied health workers remain on theirs and together remain a team.
“Learn to choose yourself in the health team. Identify your job responsibility and move on. Don’t do another person’s job.
“Heal yourself. Activate your consequential thinking and when you are angry, think about the consequences of your actions in the team.
“Show empathy to other team members and the patients whose lives you swore to protect and save,” he said.
In his welcome address, Mr Olusegun Sotiloye, the Chairman of NUAHP UCH chapter, said that there was a lot of emotions on display in Nigeria’s health sector and those emotions need to be channelled properly.
Sotiloye said that members of the union would continue to contribute their quotas to the development of the health sector in whatever form they could.
Also, Dr Obinna Ogbonna, the National President of NUAHP, described the topic of the symposium as very apt, considering the present negative situation being faced by health workers.
Ogbonna said that the sector was bedeviled with myriads of problems leading to medical tourism in the nation.
“For us to perform to the optimal level in the health sector, we need to be emotionally stable.
“Economically, Nigeria is going through a lot of challenges from all sectors.
“Union situations make the emotions high, but we shall get the panacea to emotional stress through this lecture.
“I believe that at the end of this lecture, health workers will be emotionally stable enough to move the health sector forward,’’ Ogbonna said.
A new report out on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 from the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) co-published with Corporate Accountability International, ActionAid, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development and ETC Group exposes how the industries most responsible for climate change, especially fossil fuel TNCs, are obstructing real progress to address the climate crisis across key policy areas where urgent progress over the next couple of years will largely determine how habitable man’s future will be.
Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), fossil fuel TNCs and other industries intent on exploiting the climate crisis are hijacking the talks, stifling ambition, pushing false solutions, and blocking the financing (and therefore withholding the availability) of real solutions. Who can doubt, for example, that the failure of the United States to secure domestic climate legislation, or ratify the Kyoto Protocol or the Paris Agreement, is largely the result of industry interference?
Perhaps as troubling is that the UNFCCC not only overlooks this obstructionism but welcomes these industries with open arms, further legitimising them in the eyes of the world. It might look like world governments are in the driver’s seat, but behind the scenes, it is the industries most responsible for, and those seeking to profit from, climate change that are pulling the strings.
However, without the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, Global North governments like the US and EU are left free to do the bidding of the fossil fuel industry, while the rest of the world – especially Global South countries, low-income communities, people of colour, women and children – continues to pay the price. World governments can use the negotiations at the UNFCCC to insulate climate policymaking from corporate capture at all levels, and to hold recalcitrant Global North governments accountable for doing their fair share to address climate change.
We know the Paris Agreement as it currently stands is not enough to stop the climate crisis. Even if all countries honour their current pledges to decrease emissions, the world would still warm by 3 degrees Celsius or more. Yet without the Paris Agreement and what it could be without the interference of Big Polluters, we are unlikely to achieve the global progress that must be made in an extraordinarily short time.
Governments have the opportunity to ensure that the rules and procedures they are currently developing transform the agreement from words on paper into ambitious action. By the end of 2018 at COP24, countries have agreed to develop the guidelines that will chaperone the implementation of the pledges governments have made. This is our opportunity to make sure that the meaningful, equitable, and sustainable solutions at our fingertips become reality.
This report highlights how within the U.N. climate talks, key negotiating tracks undermined by industry interference include finance, mechanisms for international cooperation, agriculture, technology, and observer participation. But all is not lost. The report also highlights what can be done in each of these tracks to protect against corporate capture and implement the solutions already at our fingertips.
Cattle dealers in Benue State say their business is on the verge of collapse because of the anti-open grazing law, which came into effect on Wednesday, November 1, 2017.
Cattle dealers: The association said that the law failed to differentiate between herdsmen and cattle dealers
Some officials of the Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria made the claim while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi, the state capital, on Wednesday.
They said that the law failed to differentiate between herdsmen and cattle dealers, adding that action had consequently affected the business of cattle dealers.
Alhaji Mustapha Aliyu, the chief of the main cattle market in Makurdi, said that cattle dealers in the market had lost over 10 cattle, excluding the calves.
“The cattle have no water to drink, no food for them. The situation is particularly harrowing for the pregnant ones that are about to deliver. Most of the dead ones are the pregnant cows who couldn’t cope with the situation,’’ he said.
He said that the cattle were going through tough times, adding that if nothing was done to salvage the situation on time, the cattle would all perish.
Aliyu alleged that a member of his association was arrested in the Gbajimba neighbourhood for flouting the law, adding that he was later released after paying some fine.
He said that 10 other cattle locations in the state were sealed by members of vigilante groups and moaned that hoodlums had taken undue advantage of the law to extort money from herdsmen and cattle dealers.
He noted that the vast lands allocated to the cattle dealers during the administration of ex-Gov. George Akume were encroached upon, adding that the lands had shrunk from 113 hectares to only 12 hectares.
Another official, Suleiman Ahmad, said that top government officials had brought their cattle to the market for rearing at one time or the other.
He said that some of the officials were even members of the Gov. Samuel Ortom’s administration.
Ahmad wondered why the government failed to consider the interests of cattle dealers when the law was being conceived, saying that cattle dealers were not herdsmen but businessmen who had contributed a lot to the growth of the state’s economy.
He said that the market had a population of about 5,000 cattle, with over 200 cattle owners.
Ahmad said that the law would destroy all the cattle and make the cattle owners to lose their livelihood.
He recalled that the cattle market was established by the Federal Government during the tenure of the Akume-administration between 1999 and 2007.
Another member of the association, Yusuf Mohammed, said that the cost of keeping cattle in a ranch might be too excessive for those involved in the cattle trade.
He said that the government’s decision to include trade cattle in the open range cattle grazing prohibition law was aimed at destroying the business of cattle dealers.
However, Mr George Ibese, the Commandant of the Vigilante Group in Benue, denied the claims that some cattle markets were closed, saying that the vigilantes only went to the markets to explain the law to the dealers.
He also denied the allegation that a cattle dealer was arrested and ordered to pay a fine.
He, however, conceded that three herdsmen from Shendam, who were passing through the state, were arrested by the vigilantes and handed over the police.
Ibese said that the herdsmen were later escorted out of Gbajimba to Daudu on the outskirts of the state, prior to their return to their base in Shendam.
When contacted, retired Col. Edwin Jando, the Chairman of Benue Anti Grazing Committee, said that he was not aware of any infringement of the law.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 queried the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) over alleged importation of 70,000 tons of genetically-modified (GM) maize by Olam Foods.
Dr Rufus Ebegba, Director-General and CEO of the the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA). Photo credit: climatereporters.com
The House also directed the agency to submit the list of companies importing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) into the country as well as confirm the allegation.
The directive was given at the public hearing of the Ad hoc Committee investigating the Production and Distribution of Drinks Manufactured by the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) PLC and other drinks marketed in Nigeria.
It will be recalled that the House in a motion lamented the health implications of its citizens over the alleged importation of seven ship-loads of maize by Olam Group without clearance from the NBMA.
The committee also reacted to the agency’s position that it only worked to ensure that GMOs were not imported into the country as such and had no business with the production of drinks.
It, therefore, questioned the agency on alleged importation of GMO maize by Olam Group and how the group was able to do so without the knowledge of the agency and other regulatory agencies.
A member of the committee, Rep. Simon Arabo (PDP-Kaduna) challenged the claim by of the agency’s representative and Director of Environmental Safety, Mr Ukpai Agha, over the reported importation.
“If you say your agency’s responsibility is to ensure that GMOs do not get imported into Nigeria, how then did Olam Group import about 70,000 tons of maize?
“Are you even aware that Olam Group imported GMOs into the country?’’ Arabo queried.
Chairman of the committee, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, consequently directed the agency to submit the list of companies found to have imported GMOs and also confirm the alleged importation by the food company.
Meanwhile, the committee has implored manufacturers of carbonated drinks and fruit juice to ensure that health of consumers took precedence over profit-making.
Gbajabiamila was reacting to the presentation of the representative of Nigerian Bottling Company PLC, Mr Fred Chiazor, who said that the use of beta carotene as a preservative was more cost-intensive than sunset yellow.
The lawmaker stressed the need for manufacturers to take a cue from counterparts from developed countries who strive to ensure that the well being of consumers was a priority.
“I know that every business is out to make profit but you need to consider the health of consumers first before profit.
“These countries have banned the use of sunset yellow because research has shown it can be harmful to the health but here you are still using it because according to you, it extends the shell-life,” Gbajabiamila said.
Gender Officer, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Office in Jigawa, Hajiya Aina’u Ibrahim, has called for the introduction of more gender policies to boost the productivity of women in agriculture.
Female smallholder farmers
Ibrahim made the call while speaking with journalists in Dutse, the capital of Jigawa State, on Wednesday, November 1, 2017.
She noted that women constituted 70 per cent of the labour force in the agricultural sector of the nation’s economy.
She said that in spite of the vital roles of women in agricultural production, they had limited access to land and other resources.
“History has shown that women constitute about 70 per cent of the workforce in the agricultural sector but they still do not have access to land and other resources or control over them.
“In spite of the vital roles which women play in agriculture such as crop planting, fertiliser application, harvesting, crop threshing and packaging, among others, they still face serious challenges such as illiteracy and poverty,’’ she added.
Ibrahim reiterated that women, who played prominent roles in all agricultural processes, were largely unable to access those services that could boost their productivity.
“Surprisingly, if you go to our villages, you will find out that most of the farmlands owned by women there are possessed through inheritance.
“You will, however, discover that the women either lease or lend the farmlands out, or sometimes they give the lands to their husbands to farm.
“Very few of the women benefit from such farmlands through gayauna – a small portion of the land being cultivated for them by those they leased or lent out the farms to.
“So, we are telling them that the time has passed for the women to be left behind or short-changed. Women should take full control of their farmlands and venture into agriculture.
“I am sure that by so doing, it will lift them out of poverty and they will eventually become employers of labour, and not labourers,’’ she added.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday urged traditional rulers to support efforts aimed at reducing the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among adolescents in Kaduna State.
UNICEF’s Communication Specialist in Kaduna, Malam Rabiu Musa, disclosed this at the opening of a two-day workshop to enlighten traditional rulers on the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among adolescent and young persons (AYPs) in the state.
According to him, about 18,000 adolescents are living with HIV/AIDS in the state.
Musa said the workshop, holding in Kachia, was organised by the National Orientation Agency to enlist the support of traditional rulers towards tackling the burden.
He explained that after the orientation, the traditional rulers would be expected to support the creation of HIV/AIDS services centres in their various communities.
“The traditional rulers will also play a key role in increasing male’s support for anti-natal care and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV,’’ he said.
To stem the prevalence of AYPs living with HIV/AIDS in the state, the UNICEF officer said that effort must be made to locate such youths and place them on treatment.
He, therefore, charged parents and caregivers to put an eye on young children because they are very delicate at that stage of their life.
“Research has shown that about 80 per cent of the HIV transmission in Nigeria is related to sexual contact while 10 per cent through blood transfusion.
`The remaining 10 per cent is through other routes such as mother to child transmission, injection by drug users and use of unsterilised instruments.’’
He spoke on the need for religious leaders to take the campaign against HIV very serious in their places of worship, to help reduce the burden of the scourge.
The communication specialist noted that HIV could be managed at the early stage, but stressed that prevention remained the better option.
“HIV can be prevented and can be properly managed; but prevention and effective treatment require teamwork.
“The teamwork involves the child, the family, HIV experts, community, governmental, non-government institutions and international partners,’’ Musa said.
He urged the youths to be faithful to their partners and advised them to use condoms correctly and consistently because “unprotected sexual contact with an infected partner can result in being infected’’.
NAN recalls that the Kaduna State AIDS Control Agency recently said that it had experienced significant progress in the control of HIV/AIDS leading to drop in the number of victims.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Mark David-Anthony, had told NAN in Kaduna that the prevalence rate had dropped from 11.6 per cent in 1999 to 2.2 as at 2014.
Tropical Wood Exporters Association of Nigeria and Processed Wood Manufacturers Association of Nigeria are said to have begun reforestation programme in the states of Ekiti, Ogun and Adamawa.
Ibrahim Usman Jibril, Minister of State for Environment
Acting Director of Forestry, Federal Ministry of Environment, Mr Adetolu Osakuade, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 that the programme was aimed at planting trees to replace the felled ones.
Osakuade said the Federal Government succeeded in getting the two associations, the beneficiaries and takers of the forests, to engage with state governments to plant with a view to replacing the felled trees.
“These two associations are fusing together and marshalling their resources to engage with state governments, to do reforestation of the degraded land.
“They have done that in Ekiti, Ogun and Adamawa.
“They come together under the umbrella of tree planting company to now bring resources to each state and collaborate with state government at least between 10 and 50 hectares of forest regeneration,’’ he said.
The acting director said the companies did 10 hectares in Ekiti, 50 hectares in Ogun and were planning to do 50 hectares in Adamawa.
“As at the time we were there two weeks ago, where we did the inauguration in Adamawa, they planted 13 hectares of trees and are thinking of putting borehole to water what they have planted.
“Involving all stakeholders in tree planting is the new thinking. We are thinking outside the box now to make sure that every one that benefits from the use of trees replaces felled trees.
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands has urged Nigerian government to leverage on technology to provide useful and affordable financial products and services to people living in remote areas of the country.
Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode (right); Queen Maxima of The Netherlands; and Chief Executive Officer, PharmAccess Group, Onno Schellekens, during her courtesy visit to Lagos House, Ikeja. Photo credit: guardian.ng
Maxima, who is the UN Secretary-General’s advocate for financial inclusion for development, said this on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 during her working visit to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja.
The queen, who also visited the Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, she said she was in Nigeria to see how far the country had gone in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The UN advocate said her visit was also in connection to see how far Nigeria had achieved financial inclusion.
She advised the government to leverage on the current mobile phone penetration put about 63 per cent to deliver key banking services to the people.
She said that the potentialities in achieving financial inclusion were enormous, adding that it was possible for Nigeria to address perceived issues that would help its citizens reap the benefits of financial inclusion.
“From 2008 to 2016, there has been very decent progress in raising the bar of financial included people from 28 per cent to 58.6 per cent in Nigeria.
“Since 2014, a couple of things have changed from financial literacy policy, regulations for agent banking and other reforms to strengthen this issue even more.
“However, in the last years, growth has flattened up and in some cases, we have seen reductions. But it is still possible to achieve the target of 80 per cent financial inclusion by 2020.
“I think now is time to sit down again and review your objectives and review your National Financial Inclusion strategy to see what needs to be done.
“There is huge potential now. Maybe 15 years ago, trying to reach that target would have been impossible, but now technology really offers us a fantastic window of opportunity,’’ she said.
Maxima identified some of the issues in the way of achieving financial inclusion to include: consumer protection, infrastructure as well as connectivity.
She stressed need for cooperation between the Central Bank of Nigeria, Ministry of Finance and other relevant agencies to militate against perceived risks to achieving financial inclusion.
“A lot of countries have addressed these issues, it is not impossible.
“We will keep working toward that. We are prepared to help Nigeria to this journey of addressing the risks, identifying them and see the best ways to approach them with the help of regulators.”
Receiving the queen, Adeosun, said access to banking services remained a problem, particularly for the rural women in the country.
She said that looking at the geography of Nigeria; it wouldn’t be viable to have bank branches everywhere, thus the need to take innovative actions.
“We have a lot of young people who are underutilised and underemployed but are technology savvy.
“We started with our social intervention programmes, the concepts of keeping people within their communities and paying them to work in those communities under the N-Power scheme, the N-Teach.
“We also have the Community Tax Officers who are going round to sensitise people about the tax system.
“We will see how we can piggyback some of that work around financial inclusion, how we can marry some of these opportunities, “she said.
Adeosun said that looking at the Social Intervention Programmes of the Federal Government; it might create an opportunity to introduce banking services to the people in the remote areas of the country.
Also, the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, pledged Nigeria’s commitment to achieving 80 per cent financial inclusion rate by 2020.
“The bank have introduced a lot of initiatives prominent among are: the Agent Banking Framework, the Know your Customer framework, the Micro Small and Medium Entreprise framework and the National Collateral Registry.
“We have also introduced the Credit Bureau and Credit Scoring System and released Financial Literacy and Consumer Protection Framework.
“On the back of these reforms, I’m pleased to tell you that, we have moved from 46 per cent exclusion rate in 2010 to 41.6 per cent in 2016.
“To achieve the exclusion rate of 20 per cent by 2020 across the country, we are priotising interventions and creating awareness to ensure patronage, incorporating non-financial services into the CBN’s intervention programmes,” he said.
Emefiele said that CBN had also increased sensitisation campaign to encourage citizens to adopt digital financial services and other simple alternative channels.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 approved N40.2 billion for the resuscitation and completion of Kontagora/Auna Dam and Irrigation project in Niger State, as well as N226 million for pests control along 11 frontline states.
Federal Executive Council Meeting
The Ministers of Water Resources and Agriculture, Suleiman Adamu and Audu Ogbeh, respectively, said these were part of the Council’s decisions at its weekly meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The ministers briefed State House correspondents alongside Ministers of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah, as well as the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
Adamu said that the council approved the upward review of the cost of the Kontagora/Auna dam project which was abandoned after reaching 61 per cent completion from N8.9 billion to N40.2 billion.
“As part of our efforts to complete ongoing projects which were hiked over time we presented a memo to the Federal Executive Council towards resuscitating and completing the Kontagora/Auna Dam and Irrigation project in Niger state.
“You could recall that we had a technical audit at the beginning of last year, of all the ongoing projects in the ministry and this project was ranked as among the top priority projects.
“It had attained 61 per cent progress before it was abandoned in 2010. This is the project that was initiated in 1985.
The minister said the Federal Government was working towards increasing the land for irrigation by 100,000 hectares to boost agricultural activities across the country.
The Minister of Agriculture said that the approved N223 million was meant for the procurement of chemicals to check locust and Quelea birds’ invasion of farmlands in the 11 frontline states.
The affected states are Kano, Jigawa, Borno, Sokoto, Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kano, Bauchi, Gombe and Adamawa.
Ogbeh said the council had resolved to use drones in spraying the chemicals to achieve maximum result.
He also said that the council discussed the persistent problem of rice smuggling along the nation’s border towns, saying efforts had been intensified by the Nigeria Custom Service to check the menace.
On his part the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Enelemah, attributed the progress achieved by Nigeria in the Ease of Doing Business to the collaborative efforts of the executive arm of government, the National Assembly, government agencies and state governments.
The World Bank, had on Tuesday, said that Nigeria now ranked 145th position out of 190 countries in the Ease of Doing Business index for 2018.
The World Bank stated this in its just released Ease of Doing Business report titled: “Doing Business 2018: Reforming to create jobs”.
The report indicated that Nigeria had moved up by 24 positions from 169th position on the 2017 ranking and also 170th position on the 2016 ranking to 145 in the World Bank’s 2018 report.
According to the World Bank, Nigeria alongside El Salvador, India, Malawi, Brunei Darussalam, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Zambia and Djibouti are the top 10 improved countries worldwide after carrying out numerous reforms to improve their business environments.
Enelamah also spoke extensively on the National Action Plan Phase 2 meant to further solidify the achievements so far made.
In his contribution, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Malami, said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on recovery of stolen funds would soon be signed between Nigeria and Swiss government.
According to him, the signing of the MoU will be done during the forthcoming global forum on assets recovery slated for December.
“As you are aware, the Federal Government has been making efforts to recover stolen funds, loot, assets and the efforts have been indeed yielding fruits particularly as it relates to local recoveries.
“A memo has been presented to council this afternoon by the office of the Attorney General which is intended to shift focus to international recovery, before going into the memo, I think it is important to bring to your attention that recently, about a week ago, we succeeded in recovering 85million dollars relating to Malabu issues from U.K.
“And then, now, there exist a forum that is Global Assets Recovery Forum taking place in December, in US and we are looking towards that, we are in agreement substantially with Swiss for the recovery of additional sum of $321 million.
“That Memorandum of Understanding has been substantially agreed between Nigeria and Swiss.’’
