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10 — Vanguard, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022<br />

:Vanguard News<br />

UTM Offshore, JGC, Technip<br />

Energies Sign agreements on<br />

Nigeria’s FLNG<br />

NIGERIA’S QUEST for energy<br />

transition received a huge<br />

boost on Wednesday as an<br />

indigenous firm, UTM Offshore<br />

Limited, signed agreements with<br />

three technical partners, Kellogg<br />

Brown and Root, KBR, UK; Japan<br />

Gas Corporation, JGC, and<br />

Technip Energies Limited, for the<br />

commencement of the Front End<br />

Engineering Design, FEED, for<br />

Nigeria’s first Floating Liquefied<br />

Natural Gas, FLNG, facility. The<br />

agreements were signed at a brief<br />

but colorful event at the Hilton<br />

Park Lane, London, UK.<br />

The Front End Engineering<br />

Design, FEED, contract with the<br />

three firms essentially entails<br />

conducting for UTM Offshore<br />

Limited, various studies to figure<br />

out technical issues and estimate<br />

rough investment costs for the<br />

FLNG facility prior to the<br />

Engineering, Procurement, and<br />

Construction, EPC, phase of the<br />

project. The timeline for this phase<br />

of the FLNG project is 10<br />

months.<br />

The FEED contract signing<br />

is a follow-up to the successful<br />

execution of the pre-FEED<br />

agreement between UTM<br />

Offshore Limited with JGC, a<br />

leading<br />

Engineering<br />

International<br />

Design,<br />

Tribunal didn't order INEC to<br />

produce Adeleke's certificate<br />

—PDP<br />

By Shina Abubakar<br />

OSOGBO—THE Peoples<br />

Democratic Party, PDP, in<br />

Osun State, has described as<br />

untrue, media reports that the<br />

ongoing election petition<br />

tribunal ordered the<br />

Independent National Electoral<br />

Commission, INEC, to produce<br />

the certificate of the governorelect,<br />

Senator Ademola Adeleke.<br />

The party in a statement by its<br />

Chairman, Dr. Adekunle<br />

Akindele, said the All<br />

Progressives Congress, APC, and<br />

Governor AdegboyegaOyetola<br />

merely sought to subpoena the<br />

Resident<br />

Electoral<br />

Commissioner, REC, in the state.<br />

The party said: "As at<br />

Wednesday, the last sitting of the<br />

Tribunal, there was no order of<br />

the Tribunal compelling INEC or<br />

the governor-elect, Senator<br />

Ademola Adeleke to produce any<br />

document or certificate as it was<br />

obvious that the APC were not<br />

serious with their case. At any<br />

rate, all the documents of<br />

Senator Adeleke are in the public<br />

domain and verifiable.<br />

"Secondly, the documents he<br />

submitted to INEC in 2018 was<br />

what the APC used to persecute<br />

him and sponsored malicious<br />

cases against him, in respect of<br />

which he had been vindicated<br />

up to the Supreme Court. We<br />

want to assure members of the<br />

Procurement, and Construction<br />

firm. The Pre-FEED scope was<br />

completed within four months<br />

from the commencement date.<br />

KBR provided due diligence on<br />

the JGC scope by conducting a<br />

third-party review of all<br />

deliverables from JGC during the<br />

Pre-FEED phase. UTM<br />

Offshore Limited entered into<br />

the pre-FEED agreement with<br />

JGC and KBR in May 2021.<br />

At the signing ceremony, the<br />

Managing Director and Chief<br />

Executive Officer of UTM<br />

Offshore Limited, Mr. Julius<br />

Rone, underscored the fact that<br />

like most other nations of the<br />

world, Nigeria is keen on, and<br />

working assiduously towards<br />

achieving energy transition.<br />

He said Nigeria’s energy<br />

transition necessarily should<br />

start with moving from huge<br />

dependence on crude oil to gas.<br />

“Like I have said in several fora,<br />

for us in Africa, especially Nigeria,<br />

energy transition is steeped in<br />

harnessing our abundant gas<br />

resources,” he said, adding, “At<br />

UTM Offshore, we completely<br />

agree with President<br />

Muhammadu Buhari that given<br />

Nigeria’s potential of about 600<br />

trillion cubic feet of gas, the<br />

commodity has the enormous<br />

potential to diversify our<br />

country’s economy.”<br />

public that the APC and Oyetola<br />

are trying to fetch water from a<br />

dry well by their petition at the<br />

tribunal, which is a mirage.<br />

"At the beginning of the<br />

election petition tribunal<br />

particularly at the pre- hearing<br />

session stage, it was<br />

unanimously agreed by counsel<br />

to the petitioner and respondents<br />

that all documents shall be<br />

tendered and admitted during<br />

trial, while objections to their<br />

admissibility will be taken at the<br />

final address stage. This formed<br />

part of the pre-hearing report of<br />

the tribunal. It is also part of the<br />

pre-hearing report that 24 hours<br />

before any hearing date, the party<br />

conducting hearing and calling<br />

witnesses shall file and serve a<br />

schedule to that effect.<br />

"May we inform members of the<br />

public that since the beginning<br />

of hearing at the tribunal, the<br />

APC and Oyetolalawyers have<br />

been helplessly wandering and<br />

dancing around their petition. No<br />

single witness has ever been<br />

called. The public can do a fact<br />

check on this at the tribunal as<br />

they would discover that the<br />

petitioners have been indolent<br />

and unserious with their case.<br />

"We, hereby, appeal to members<br />

of the public to disregard the lies<br />

and propaganda of the APC as<br />

the last kick of a dying horse. Let<br />

them not distract us from the<br />

swearing-in preparations as their<br />

petition is dead on arrival."<br />

Wake Up The Giant enters<br />

final stage<br />

By ‘Niyi Okiri<br />

ACADEMIC REALITY show,<br />

Wake Up The Giant, has<br />

entered its final stage, with about<br />

26 schools from the six South-West<br />

states of Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo, Osun,<br />

Ondo and Ogun participating in<br />

Lagos.<br />

The show, sponsored by Sastoma<br />

Empowerment Foundation,<br />

STEFO, and Sifax Group, is aimed<br />

at promoting value for education<br />

among young people in Africa, as<br />

well as curbing violence and exam<br />

malpractices among youths.<br />

Speaking during the opening<br />

ceremony of the grand finale of the<br />

event, in Lagos, organiser of the<br />

event, Dr. Stella Ebuete, said: "It<br />

has been an intense eight months<br />

of preparation across the six states<br />

of the South-West, but finally, to the<br />

glory of God, history is made in the<br />

South-West region of Nigeria. We<br />

are setting the pace for academic<br />

reality show in Nigeria and Africa.<br />

"The idea is to draw government<br />

attention to the dearth of English<br />

and Literature in Nigerian schools,<br />

awaken reading culture among<br />

youths in order to curb the trend of<br />

cheating to pass examinations,<br />

which has become the order of the<br />

day."<br />

:@vanguardnews :@vanguardnews NEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058<br />

SIGNING—From left (front row): COO, Technip Energies Ltd., Marco Villa; MD, UTM<br />

Offshore Ltd., Julius Rone; President, JGC, Tadashi Ishizuka, and Vice President<br />

(Operations), KBR, Paul Baillie. From left (standing): Mrs. Utibe Rone; Executive Secretary,<br />

NCDMB, Simbi Wabote; Minister of Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva; President,<br />

Afreximbank, Prof. Benedict Oramah; Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador<br />

Sarafa Ishola; CEO, Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority,<br />

Farouk Ahmed, and CEO, Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, Gbenga<br />

Komolafe, during the signing of the Front End Engineering Design, FEED, Agreement for<br />

Nigeria’s first FLNG, in London.<br />

2023 polls: We're ready to defeat<br />

Tinubu in Lagos —PDP<br />

By Dapo Akinrefon<br />

& Efe Onadjae<br />

THE<br />

PEOPLE'S<br />

Democratic Party, PDP, in<br />

Lagos State, yesterday, expressed<br />

optimism that it would defeat the<br />

All Progressives Congress, APC,<br />

in the 2023 general elections,<br />

adding that it is ready to take over<br />

the state from the bondage of soleproprietor.<br />

Leaders of the party said this<br />

during a walk, tagged UMBRELLA<br />

DAY in preparation for 2023<br />

elections held from Fadeyi bustop<br />

to Maryland area of the state.<br />

The party leaders said they are<br />

ready to deliver Lagos State to it's<br />

presidential candidate, Alhaji<br />

Atiku Abubakar.<br />

The walk which took place on<br />

the stretch of Ikorodu Road,<br />

traversing five local government<br />

areas had the PDP members and<br />

leaders, including its governorship<br />

candidate, Dr. Abdul-Azeez<br />

Adediran popularly known as<br />

Jandor, his running mate, Funke<br />

Akindele, a BoT member of the<br />

party, Mrs. Aduke Marina, Dr<br />

Bimbo Ogunkelu, former state<br />

chairman, Capt Tunji Shelle (retd),<br />

Philip Aivoje, Mr. Deji Doherty<br />

and Tolagbe Animashaun holding<br />

umbrella as symbol of their party.<br />

A former spokesperson of the<br />

party, Mr. Taofik Gani, said: "It is<br />

time to cause the upset to defeat<br />

TInubu in Lagos. Incidentally,<br />

himself is contesting the<br />

presidency, so it makes us<br />

speculatively proud of winning him<br />

as a direct participant."<br />

The walk was led by Mr. Adedeji<br />

Doherty, Chairman of Atiku/<br />

Okowa Presidential Campaign<br />

Council, PCC, and other party<br />

chieftains in the state.<br />

Addressing the crowd at<br />

Maryland, Doherty said, the<br />

umbrella walk was a symbol of<br />

unity and was meant to<br />

demonstrate to the electorate that<br />

the party is fully ready and united<br />

to give hope to Nigerians if elected.<br />

He said: "The umbrella is a<br />

symbol of unity to bring everybody<br />

together and every ethnic group<br />

in solidarity for Atiku/Okowa. It is<br />

to show the unity that we have in<br />

Lagos State and in Nigeria.<br />

"It is also to tell the ruling party<br />

today that PDP is going to unite<br />

this country immediately we enter<br />

government in 2023.<br />

"Our principal, Atiku Abubakar<br />

has promised to form a<br />

government of national unity once<br />

he is elected. Mr Peter Obi (of<br />

Labour Party), Sen. Rabiu<br />

Kwankwaso (of New Nigerian<br />

By James<br />

Ogunnaike<br />

A<br />

B E O K U T A —<br />

GOVERNOR Dapo<br />

Abiodun of Ogun State, yesterday,<br />

presented a budget proposal of<br />

N472,250,694,447.58billion,<br />

consisting of N270.41billion for<br />

capital projects, which takes the<br />

lion share of the budget, while<br />

N201.84billion will go to recurrent<br />

expenditure before the state<br />

House of Assembly for the 2023<br />

fiscal year for consideration and<br />

approval.<br />

The budget christened, "Budget<br />

of Continued Development and<br />

Prosperity" consisted of<br />

N79.47billion for personnel costs,<br />

N21.12billion for Social<br />

Peoples Party), Sen. Bola Tinubu<br />

(of APC) and others must work<br />

with him.<br />

"He is going to bring everybody<br />

together. Everybody is going to be<br />

part of his government. Once there<br />

is unity among us, then the rest is<br />

easy.<br />

"Nigerians have tried PDP and<br />

tried APC and they can see the<br />

difference, let them give PDP<br />

another chance, we will correct our<br />

mistakes," he said.<br />

Gov Abiodun presents N472.25bn budget<br />

proposal to Ogun Assembly<br />

Contribution and Social Benefits,<br />

with N39.90billion earmarked for<br />

public debt charge and<br />

N61.35billion for overhead cost.<br />

Abiodun explained that the state<br />

in the next financial year would<br />

accord priority to the completion of<br />

all ongoing projects and those with<br />

revenue potentials, including the<br />

projects that could enhance<br />

employment generation.<br />

He noted that others to be<br />

prioritized were projects consistent<br />

with priorities articulated in the<br />

State Economic Development<br />

Plan and Strategy 2021-2025 and<br />

others that align with the seven<br />

thematic areas contained in the<br />

Medium-Term National<br />

Development Plan 2021-2025.<br />

According to him, the thematic<br />

areas include economic growth<br />

and development, infrastructure,<br />

public administration (governance,<br />

security, and international<br />

relations), human capital<br />

development, social development,<br />

regional development, as well as<br />

plan implementation,<br />

communication, financing,<br />

Monitoring and Evaluation.<br />

Pinting out that the total<br />

state's funding was estimated at<br />

N472.25 billion, the governor<br />

added that a total of 210.25billion,<br />

comprising of N90billion was<br />

expected to be generated by the<br />

state Internal Revenue Service,<br />

OGIRS, in addition to<br />

N120.25billion expected from<br />

other Ministries, Departments<br />

and Agencies, MDAs, which<br />

would enable the state achieve<br />

an IGR to GDP ratio of 3.7<br />

percent.<br />

Vanguard set to host 2nd mental health summit<br />

By Sola Ogundipe<br />

IN CONTINUATION of its<br />

public enlightenment and<br />

education on mental health, and<br />

mobilisation for a systemic change<br />

in mental health in Nigeria,<br />

Vanguard is set to hold the second<br />

edition of its Mental Health<br />

Summit series.<br />

In August 2021, Vanguard<br />

organised the maiden mental<br />

health summit that was<br />

acknowledged to be the first of its<br />

kind in Nigeria.<br />

This year, the campaign, which<br />

is endorsed by the Association of<br />

Psychiatrists of Nigeria, APN,<br />

focuses on the impact of the mental<br />

health crisis on the National<br />

economy with the theme "Mental<br />

Health in a Distressed Economy",<br />

and sub-theme "Drug Abuse: A<br />

new force driving mental health<br />

crises in Nigeria".<br />

The event which is supported<br />

by 9mobile Nigeria and Guaranty<br />

Trust Bank Plc., is billed to take<br />

place at the Eko Hotel & Suites,<br />

Victoria Island, Lagos, on<br />

November 24, 2022, and will be<br />

chaired by the President of the<br />

World Medical Association, WMA,<br />

Dr. Osahon Enabulele.<br />

The Lagos State Commissioner<br />

for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi is<br />

the Special Guest of Honour, while<br />

a Professor of Psychiatry, Professor<br />

Francis Olatunji Aina of the<br />

Department of Psychiatry, College<br />

of Medicine, University of Lagos,<br />

will present the keynote address.<br />

Among the host of speakers and<br />

panelists lined up for the event is<br />

the Chairman of the National<br />

Drug Law Enforcement Agency,<br />

NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed<br />

Buba Marwa (Rtd), who will speak<br />

on "Growing Problem of Substance<br />

Abuse: The NDLEA Experience.<br />

The Director General of the<br />

National Agency for Food and<br />

Drug Administration & Control,<br />

NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola<br />

Adeyeye, who will deliver a special<br />

presentation on "The Challenges<br />

of Tackling Drugs & Substance<br />

Abuse and Drug Use in Nigeria".<br />

To shed light on the significance<br />

of fertility issues among factors that<br />

contribute to mental health<br />

challenges, the Clinic Manager of<br />

Nordica Fertility Centre, Lagos,<br />

Mrs Tola Ajayi, will speak on<br />

"Infertility: Coping with<br />

Depression".<br />

A former Medical Director of the<br />

Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Dr.<br />

Yemi Ogun, will speak on "Mental<br />

Health in Children", while the<br />

Deputy Director of Medical Social<br />

Services, Lagos University<br />

Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Mrs.<br />

Titilayo Tade, will speak on "Coping<br />

with the Stigma of Mental<br />

Disorders, the LUTH Experience".<br />

The Chief Consultant<br />

Psychiatrist at the Federal<br />

Neuropsychiatric Hospital Annex,<br />

Oshodi, Lagos, Dr. Olufunmilayo<br />

Akinola, will coordinate the<br />

panelists' session.<br />

The Nigeria Medical<br />

Association, the Pharmaceutical<br />

Society of Nigeria, the WAITT<br />

Organisation, and a host of other<br />

stakeholder will grace the<br />

occasion.<br />

To further broaden the scope of<br />

its mental health campaign,<br />

Vanguard established the Mental<br />

Health Chat Room - an interactive<br />

column where the basics of mental<br />

health are discussed to promote<br />

public understand and have a full<br />

grasp of the rudiments of mental<br />

health and mental well-being.<br />

Further details of the Chat Room<br />

will be unveiled at the event which<br />

is strictly by invitation.

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