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Thursday 9 September 1999
"DANJUMA FUNDED NADECO'' DAN SULEIMAN
NADECO chieftain, retired Air Commodore Dan Suleiman says Minister of
Defence, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma was one of the financiers of the
National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) abroad during the dark days of the
late dictator, General Sani Abacha. ''The first cheque that NADECO received
in the United Kingdom (UK) for the take off of the organisation came from
Gen. Danjuma'' Suleiman said at the Nigerian Institute of International
Affairs (NIIA), Lagos at the launch of a book titled Heroes of Democracy,
written by Mr Joe Igbokwe. ''This revelation became necessary so that
Nigerians may know those that played leading roles in the struggle for the
restoration of democracy in the country but have chosen to lie low. I must
state categorically that the first cheque we received abroad came from Gen.
Danjuma. He actually funded us. There are others like that who were in the
vanguard for the enthronement of democracy in the country but they are still
hiding their identity" he stressed. ''I, David Jang and Chief Segun Osoba
first signed for the declaration of NADECO. Apart from Osoba, we were the
first two Middle-Belters. But anytime the saints of democracy in Nigeria are
compiled, we are always marginalised," he declared.
COURT FOILS BABANGIDA'S BID TO REGAIN OIL LICENCE
Former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida has failed in his bid to
regain an oil licence revoked by the government through the law courts. The
government had revoked a total of 16 Oil Prospecting Leases (OPLS). A Federal
High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed a suit by Babangida and all others
affected. Mr. Justice Emmanuel Sanyaolu, in a 55- minute ruling, upheld the
revocation in a N15 billion general damages suit brought by Babangida's
Heritage Oil and Gas Company Limited. Sanyaolu, in his ruling said as far as
the law of contract was concerned, "there is no contract between the Federal
Government and the plaintiff/applicant (Heritage Oil)." Counsel to the
company indicated an intention to challenge the ruling at the Court of
Appeal. The government had announced the cancellation of the leases awarded
to 16 indigenous operators between March and May this year. The lease on
off-shore oil blocs were awarded by former military ruler Gen. Abdulsalami
Abubakar. The cancellation, was sequel to an interim report by the Dr.
Christopher Kolade-led panel set up by the government to review contracts,
licences, awards and public appointments.
BRITISH AIRWAYS BOSS MEETS OBASANJO IN ABUJA
British Airways says its chief executive Bob Ayling has met President
Olusegun Obasanjo and discussed the agreement with Nigeria Airways to fly the
lucrative Lagos-London route. A BA official in Lagos said Ayling met Obasanjo
two days ago after opening a new office in the capital Abuja, but could not
say how talks related to Nigeria's plan to sell a stake in its troubled
airline to a strategic investor. Under a joint venture agreement, BA operates
the Lagos to London route on behalf of Nigeria Airways -- which has been
hamstrung by debt and inefficient management in recent years, and at one
stage had only one operating Boeing 737. ``It could be understood that an
ongoing relationship is quite possible either in the present form or in a
different form after the success of the current joint venture,'' the official
told reporters in Lagos. Key Nigerian politicians in the national assembly
are backing Bellview Airlines to takeover the Lagos-London route temporarily
entrusted to the British airline. BA also flies the London to Lagos route on
its own behalf and in May became the second international airline, behind
Bellview, to begin flights to Nigeria's administrative capital Abuja, which
has proved a successful route since the return of democracy. Nigeria Airways
is slated for total privatisation at an unspecified date and in the meantime
the government is looking for a partner to return the airline to profit and
possibly take an equity stake of up to 40 percent. Nigerian officials said BA
was among several European airlines to express an interest.
OIL REFINERY OVERHAUL DUE END NEXT YEAR
OPEC Secretary-General and newly appointed Nigerian petroleum adviser Chief
Rilwanu Lukman says it would take all of next year to restore Nigeria's
refining sector back to full capacity. ``It would take time, one (refinery)
at a time. It would take the whole of next year to get everything at full,''
he told reporters on the sidelines of an oil conference in Bali, Indonesia.
Lukman said a programme to overhaul the country's four refineries, with a
combined 445,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) refining capacity, has been put in
place with the first one expected to be completed at the end of this year. He
said the 110,000-bpd Kaduna refinery would complete its maintenance by the
end of this year with the 125,000-bpd Warri refinery due to finish its
refurbishment early next year.
President Olusegun Obasanjo named Lukman petroleum adviser in the first set
of appointments he made hours after he took office as elected president on
May 29. OPEC producer Nigeria is facing its worst economic crisis since
independence with revenues sharply down following the oil market crisis,
social unrest which is affecting oil operations, and broken down refineries
which has forced Africa's biggest oil producer to rely on fuel imports to
meet local demand. Lukman had said following his appointment that he would
make resolving the problem of fuel shortages a priority. The former Nigerian
oil minister said that he would press on with the urgent works needed to
bring the oil sector up to scratch. ``We are continuing the restructure of
the oil industry and putting things in place. Trying to rehabilitate
(refining) capacity and extend our reserves,'' he said.
Lukman said Nigeria was now producing at 80 to 90 percent of its over 2.26
million bpd crude capacity. Under the OPEC agreed quotas, Nigeria produced
1.95 million bpd in August and 1.90 million bpd in July, a survey showed.
``We have about a 10 to 15 percent shut in, it depends on how you graded
it,'' he said. Lukman, who was due to give up his OPEC post later this year,
said that the grouping's efforts to rein in production and raise prices have
been successful and it was unlikely for it to review the production cuts at
its meeting in Vienna in two weeks. ``Why should we. I don't see any reason
for changing what we are doing, it's working for us,'' he said. The OPEC
production cuts reversed the trend of falling oil prices, which slumped to
below $10 per barrel in 1998, to hit a 22-month high last Wednesday at $21.48
for benchmark Brent crude.
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GOVT ADVERTISES SALE OF SHARES IN QUOTED FIRMS
Nigeria's privatisation council has advertised for core investors in quoted
banks, oil marketing and cement firms in which the government plans to sell
its remaining shares this year. The advert is the first official request for
expressions of interest under President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation
programme which he has promised will later include power and telecoms
companies and oil refineries. ``Strategic or core group investors must
possess the right technical, financial and management capacities in their
sector of interest,'' the advertisement in local newspapers said. Among the
12 companies listed are several in which foreign investors have expressed
interest in increasing stakes through the sale which is due to be completed
this year.
Shell is interested in gaining a controlling interest in oil marketing firm
National Oil. BP Amoco hopes to secure a stake in African Petroleum, which it
ran until 1979 when its assets were nationalised for alleged links to
apartheid South Africa. Britain's Blue Circle Industries wants to increase
its stake in Nigeria's cement industry. Shares in West African Portland,
Benue, Ashaka, Calabar, Nigerian and Northern Nigerian cement companies are
to be sold. Also on offer are stakes in oil marketing company Unipetrol and
banks FSB, Afribank and unquoted Assurance Bank.
Would-be investors have until October 15 to respond to the National Council
on Privatisation, which can be contacted in Abuja on telephone +234 9
5237397, 5237400, 5237401, fax 5237396 or by e-mail at bpe+micro.com.ng.
NIGERIANS WELCOME CLEAN-UP OF POLICE
A plan by Nigeria's government to clean up and rebuild the police force so
that it conforms to the rule of law and the needs of modern society has been
welcomed by local civil society bodies. "The reorganisation should involve
civil society and community groups in every police division," Innocent
Chukwuma, executive director of the Centre for Law Enforcement Education in
Lagos, told reporters. Since independence in 1960, analysts say, there has
been no reorientation of the police. The force has adopted and maintained
colonial methods of policing which, Chukwuma said, "were widely despised".
Nigeria's police force is reputed for its inefficiency, corruption and
brutality, especially under the regime of the late military ruler, General
Sani Abacha.
The job of gaining public acceptability for the law enforcers has now gone to
Police Minister David Jemibowon. The former army officer announced at the
weekend that he would retire 50,000 policemen and recruit 125,000 new men and
women. However, civil society bodies said more far-reaching measures were
needed. They want much higher minimum educational entry requirements, human
rights training in police academies and foreign advisors in training and
modern police techniques. "The force is made up of illiterates," Festus
Okoye, executive director of Human Rights Monitor in Kaduna, told reporters.
"We need to weed out those who cannot be in a modern force and subordinate
the force to the rule of law."
Nigeria now has to contend with rising levels of white-collar crime which,
analysts say, the police are mentally and materially ill-equipped to fight.
Okoye calls for high school graduates to be recruited as constables while
Chukwuma wants the National Certificate of Education (a two-year post-high
school diploma) as the minimum educational requirement. Both Okoye and
Chukwuma say that many more women should be recruited into the force and that
policewomen should perform the same tasks as their male colleagues. For now,
women are confined to clerical tasks and are not weapon trained. Married
women cannot join the police. A policewoman may marry three years after
entering the force, Chukwuma said, but must submit the identity of her future
spouse to a police board for clearance. "Men," he said, "are not required to
do this."
GOVT SAYS TO CREATE 5 MILLION JOBS
Another five million Nigerians could be at work within a year if their
government's plans for more employment fall into place, but the jobs will not
come from the public sector, news organisations quoted Vice President Atiku
Abubakar as saying. "The present administration is determined to create a
conducive environment for the generation of new employment opportunities by
propelling the private sector to become an engine of growth," Abubakar said.
Abubakar was "taking stock" of the first 100 days in office of the
administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was sworn in on 29 May, a
Lagos daily, `The Guardian', reported on Tuesday. However, the Nigerian
Labour Congress (NLC) told reporters that the issue of job creation needed to
be carefully considered. The NLC's acting deputy secretary-general, John
Odah, said all stakeholders - the government, unions, employers and the
unemployed (represented by the Movement of the Unemployed and Destitute) -
needed to meet on the issue. "We need to talk to the victims of the
unemployment crisis, a number of whom are articulate men and women who hold
degrees and have been roaming the streets for five years," Odah said. The
NLC, he said, was consulting with its South African colleagues on how to
organise a "job summit" similar to one held in that country in October 1998.
The aim of such a meeting, Odah said, would be to work out a programme to
tackle unemployment.
ROBBERS KILL 20 IN KADUNA
At least 20 people, including a police officer, were killed when armed
bandits attacked a bus in northern Nigeria. The bus, travelling between Lagos
and Kaduna, was attacked by robbers believed to be from neighbouring Niger in
the early hours of Tuesday about 100 km (60 miles) from its destination.
"Witnesses said the hoodlums emerged from the bush, armed with sophisticated
machineguns and opened fire," the majority state owned Daily Times newspaper
said. Other papers carried the report. Nigeria has been hit by an upsurge in
robbery since the end of military rule on May 29, when paramilitary task
forces designed to prevent crime were disbanded.
10 MILLION WAIT FOR A PHONE IN NIGERIA
Around ten million people in Nigeria are waiting to get a phone installed in
their homes, some of them having applied and paid five years ago, the
Guardian newspaper has reported. The government last month announced an
immediate cut in telephone installation charges from over 50,000 naira (500
dollars) to 20,000 naira (200 dollars) and urged Nigerians to take up the
300,000 unused phone lines it said were available. But the Guardian Tuesday
said there is in fact a massive over-subscription, with around 10.12 million
waiting for a phone line from the state-run operator NITEL. Some 2.5 million
people were waiting for a telephone line at the end of 1995, 6.75 million
people at the end of 1998 and around 10.12 million today, the paper said.
"There are no telephone lines at all and they are lying to us that there are
300,000 unutilised," one industry operator told the paper. Currently, fewer
than half of one percent of Nigerians -- around 500,000 people -- own a phone
and communications costs are high. The government has promised to licence two
or three major international telecommunications companies in the next two
years, to compete with NITEL and is currently assessing necessary
legislation.
NIGERIAN FIGHTS DEPORTATION ORDER IN BRITAIN
A businessman who was abandoned in the UK as a child has launched a High
Court attempt to block the home secretary's decision to deport him to
Nigeria. London-based stockbroker Ben James, 30, says he has no remaining
connections in Nigeria. His counsel Stephanie Harrison said Home Secretary,
Jack Straw's decision in June not to let him stay in the UK was "irrational
and unreasonable". She told Mr Justice Scott Baker that deportation would
infringe his fundamental right to a private life, guaranteed under the
European Convention on Human Rights. She also told the London law court her
client was a "powerful role model" for both the "black and the wider
community". Mr James said has spent £30,000 on legal fees. James was granted
an injunction from the High Court in June for a final legal challenge, just
as he was about to be put on a plane to Lagos. He was arrested and held in a
detention centre at Gatwick, London, for nine days. He has lived in the UK
since 1983, after being sent there to attend private school by his family.
But they stopped sending money and he eventually lost contact with them.
James, whose business has earned him £40,000 a year, fell foul of the
immigration authorities when he failed to renew his temporary student
residency permit, which expired in 1986. His case came to light in 1991, when
he approached the Home Office to try to right matters - and found himself
embroiled in a seven-year legal battle.
During the hearing, the judge queried whether James would be such a positive
role model if the public knew the full reasons why Straw had refused him
permission to stay. Ms Harrison acknowledged there were allegations that he
had obtained a false national insurance number and, for a short time,
obtained social security benefits to which he was not entitled. But she said
the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, Sir Herman Ouseley, had
considered the full facts and still maintained that it would be "very
damaging" for the businessman to be deported. James told the media that he
will continue to fight deportation for as long as he can. Trevor Phillips, a
Labour candidate for the post of mayor of London, said he hoped Straw would
be "big enough and compassionate enough" to drop the deportation attempt.
Habib Rahman, from the Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, told the media
that James's case "highlights the unfairness in the immigration law". He said
the government's new Immigration and Asylum law would cause "further
unfairness" by "taking away the right of deportation appeal".
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NIGERIA DESTROYS HARD DRUGS
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency of Nigeria has destroyed about
21,800 kilograms of narcotic drugs so far this year, Chief Executive of the
agency, Ogbonna Onovo said. He disclosed this in Port Calabar, Cross River
State Monday, while 897 kgs of cannabis (Indian hemp) seized from Warri, Port
Harcourt, Onitsha, Uyo and Calabar were destroyed. The destruction of
dangerous drugs in Calabar, east Nigeria, was "the fifth in the series of our
well mapped out program for the destruction of forfeited drugs this year,"
The Guardian newspaper quoted Onovo as saying. He said that in prosecuting
the war against drug trafficking, 85 officers of the agency had lost their
lives while others had suffered permanent disability. On the same occasion,
Calabar Zonal Commander of the anti-narcotic agency, Omobhude Mathew,
explained that the zone was a high risk area in the cultivation of Indian
hemp because of its fertile soil and proximity to Cameroun and other
countries.
ADB PRESIDENT PROMISES FRESH NIGERIAN MISSION
African Development Bank (AfDB) President Omar Kabbaj yesterday promised a
mission to Nigeria to look at new projects to support, in a further sign of
improving relations. Ties between the bank and its biggest shareholder were
strained under past military governments which were reluctant to agree
Kabbaj's reforms to strengthen the bank that also increased the powers of
Western shareholders. ``We will be sending a mission soon to Nigeria ...
which will define the sectors in which we will work and later identify the
projects we will be able to support,'' Kabbaj told reporters. ``Our
relationship with your country is very good,'' he added at the end of
four-day visit during which he met President Olusegun Obasanjo and other
senior officials. Kabbaj said Nigeria's current portfolio of loans from the
bank stood at about $2.0 billion. He earlier commended Nigeria for belatedly
agreeing to subscribe to a capital increase approved at the bank's annual
meeting, which took place before Obasanjo took office on May 29.
Nigeria's representative at the meeting backed the increase but spoke out
against related changes that increased the voting power of Western
shareholders to 40 percent from 33 percent and cut that of African states to
60 from 67 percent. ``Your government's support for the fifth general capital
increase was very important because it sent strong signals to the market and
the rating agencies that there was consensus among key shareholders on the
bank's reforms,'' he told finance minister Adamu Ciroma. The rift with
Nigeria, a 9.7 percent shareholder, was one reason why Standard & Poor's held
back from restoring AfDB's AAA rating, something the other leading agencies
have done. Under its military regimes Nigeria opposed policy changes enforced
by Kabbaj since 1995, including tight credit rules that exclude the majority
of African countries from borrowing from the bank. Some 39 out of 53
countries can only borrow from the limited African Development Fund, the
bank's soft loan arm.
NIGERIA SAYS UNDECIDED OVER IMF LOAN
The federal government says it is undecided on whether it would want a $1.0
billion International Monetary Fund loan on offer if conditions for economic
reform are met.
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar said Nigeria, one of the world's largest oil
producers, believed that its first priority should be to use its own
resources to try and revitalise the economy after 15 disastrous years of
military rule which ended in May. ``We can get our economy on track, we can
do all these things ourselves. We may not eventually need the loan,''
Abubakar told a news conference to mark the elected government's first 100
days in office. ``Government has not even taken a decision whether it needs a
loan or not. What we are busy doing is trying to get our economy back on
track with or without an IMF loan.''
The IMF has offered Nigeria a standby loan, but only if it makes a clear
start on economic reforms which President Olusegun Obasanjo's government has
so far appeared reluctant to do quickly. High on the list of expected reforms
are the privatisation of inefficient and often corrupt state utilities, the
removal of subsidies on fuel and fertiliser and allowing the value of the
naira currency to be determined by the market. Creditors who could offer
relief on more than $30 billion in foreign debt also expect reforms to be
carried out to ensure that any help offered would not simply allow money to
be stolen or spent propping up moribund state bodies. The rise in oil prices
to more than $21 per barrel from only around $10 at the beginning of the year
have made Nigeria's immediate budgetary needs much less pressing.
WORLD BANK INJECTS $7.16 BILLION IN NIGERIA
The World Bank has between 1959 and now injected 7.16 billion U.S. dollars
into Nigeria's economy. The Guardian newspaper quoted Nigerian Finance
Minister Mallam Ciroma as saying in Abuja that 5.879 billion dollars out of
the amount came as loans and credits. "Considering the socio-economic
benefits that the country has derived from the implementation of World Bank
assisted projects over the years, coupled with the present administration's
policy of exploring new windows of opportunity, government has initiated
discussions with the World Bank with a view to accessing new concessional
facilities," Ciroma said. Praising the international financial institution's
assistance in alleviating poverty in the country, he, however, lamented the
frequent and high turnover of project staff which, according to him, assumed
alarming proportions since the inception of the Olusegun Obasanjo
administration. Ciroma identified inadequate counterpart funding as one of
the impediments to smooth implementation of the World Bank assisted projects
in the west African country, saying the "government will continue to accord
priority to the provision of counterpart funds for the projects."
ALSCON REVEIWING NEW DEAL
Nigeria's suspended ALSCON aluminium smelter said it was reviewing a
marketing deal with U.S.-based Reynolds to try to cut costs when it restarts
production. A company spokesman said the review of the contract for marketing
80 percent of the 193,000 tonne-per-year smelter's theoretical output was
being carried out by officials from the Ministry of Power and Steel and
Reynolds.``The agreement is being reviewed because ALSCON incurred additional
cost of between $20 and $30 per tonne to deliver aluminium products to
Europe,'' the spokesman told reporters in Abuja. ``What the minister of power
and steel has directed is that there should be flexibility in the cost of
delivery of the products which benefits both parties,'' the spokesman said.
Reynolds has a 10 percent stake in the Ikot Abasi plant in southeast Nigeria,
which shareholders agreed last week to try to revive after it stopped
production in June for lack of funds, having reached only 30 percent capacity
since 1997. Nigeria has a 70 percent stake in the project and the rest is
held by Germany's Ferrostaal.
14 WIVES OF ABIOLA TO CONTEST WILL
About 14 wives of the late Chief Moshood Abiola, are seeking legal advise
over the will of the politician in which they were left of the largesse.
Reports said a popular Lagos lawyer is to file a suit against the National
Westminster Bank of London, the executor and trustee of the will. They
accused the bank of manipulating the document to favour the 26 wives who were
stated as beneficiaries. "It is unthinkable that Chief Abiola would have
excluded some of the wives from the will. Equally surprising is the
preferential treatment of the children of the first wife as regards the blood
test issue" a family source said.
The controversial will which was read to the representatives of the family
last month by Chief Rotimi Williams covered only the offshore assets of the
deceased. The second will which deals with Abiola's assets in Nigeria has
been put on hold because of this development. In the first will, Abiola left
his financial legacies to only 24 of his 40 recognised wives. Reports said
leading Yoruba traditional rulers including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade
Sijuwade, and the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Oyebade Lipede, have waded into the
matter. Another source said that the traditional rulers have invited the
wives of the late business-man to a meeting to resolve the crisis.
IN BRIEF
Lagos lawyer Chief Gani Fawehinmi has rejected overtures from the detained
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, General Sani Abacha's former security officer.
Mustapha had sent a message to Fawehinmi, seeking to appoint him as his
lawyer when he is eventually arraigned for offences relating to political
assassination of prominent Nigerians, embezzlement and human rights abuses.
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent statement that states could pay their
workers according to their financial capacity irrespective of the N3,000
minimum agreed with the workers union has been described by the President of
the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Adams Oshiomhole, as unconstitutional.
The present political parties are mere contraptions from which new ones will
emerge, Chief Bola Ige, Deputy Leader of Egbe Afenifere and Power and Steel
Minister has said.
The Justice Chukwudifu Oputa-led Investigation Panel on Human Rights
Violations, set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo to probe human rights
violation under past military regimes, may end up as a truth commission.
Oputa says it is the wish of the panel to operate like the South African
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Government sets up six-man panel to examine the books of Nigeria Airways from
1983 to date. British Airways may be interested in taking up shares in the
airline and the Monday visit of chief executive Bob Ayling to President
Olusegun Obasanjo is believed to have been linked to this.
Federal government bars state governments from independently seeking
financial help from the World Bank or International Fund for Agricultural
Development.
West African insurance companies complain they were excluded from
underwriting the $400 million gas pipeline project.
Delta State government in southern Nigeria partially lifts curfew around oil
industry hub of Warri.
Steyr Nigeria closes plant in the northern city of Bauchi, bringing to four
the number of vehicle assembly plants closed in Nigeria over the past decade.
Nigeria to import fuel for one more year until refineries are repaired, says
presidential energy adviser Rilwanu Lukman.
Federal government may have waived the completion date of the railway
rehabilitation contract being handled by Chinese Civil Engineering
Construction Corporation because of delay in arrival of materials needed for
repairing tracks by Nigerian contractors.
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