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Special Abridged Online Edition For NIGERIAN DREDGING PROFILE www.ddhmag.com N1,500 Vol.5 No. 15 2nd Quarter 2011 HAPPENING NOW: ANOTHER BAR BEACH SAGA OPENS IN LEKKI ...As ALPHA BEACH is gobbled by Atlantic Ocean. Nigerian Dredging Profile: From Sand to Reclamation and Chinese Dredgers. P. L. Carrodano Engr. Olaniyan Dr. Omene NPA’s New Deep Sea Port at Ibaka, Akwa Ibom State: How Feasible? NIMASA: The Search to Rescue Original Mandate - Olaniyan. STAR INTERVIEWS “China Needs Africa...” - Carrodano. “Amnesty is good but the concept is faulty” -Dr. Omene. oundup arintime NewsR Plus Nigerian M Nigerian Dredging E Summit G A P R E S E N T S Editorial P TH NIGERIAN DREDGING SUMMIT R E www.ddhmag.com N1,500 Vol.5 No. 15 2nd Quarter 2011 & H EXHIBITION S I L B CALABAR 2011 HAPPENING NOW: U ANOTHER BAR BEACH SAGA OPENS IN LEKKI ...As ALPHA BEACH is gobbled by Atlantic Ocean. P E Nigerian Dredging Profile: From Sand to Reclamation and Chinese Dredgers. Carrodano Engr. Olaniyan Dr. Omene H NPA’s Deep Sea Port at Ibaka, Akwa Ibom State: How Feasible? NIMASA: Search to Rescue Original Mandate. STAR INTERVIEWS “China Needs Africa...” - Carrodano. 5 “Amnesty is good but the concept is faulty” -Dr. Omene. dup T arintmi e News Roun Plus Ngerii an M Vol. 5 No. 15, 2nd Quarter 2011 M O Dredge, Drill & Haul (ISSN: 1597 6475) R F is a publication of Acorn Media Services Ltd. Suite E187, Ikota Plaza, VGC, P.O. Box 37, Ajah, Lagos, Nigeria. Another Bar Beach saga in the making Tel: +234 1 7928166. Email: [email protected] www.ddhmag.com lpha Beach in the Lekki peninsula is seems to be racing to a conclusion. But many other Dredging for Transport, Oil & Gas and Delicate Environments. gradually being wiped out as you read companies that used to be vibrant in the sector are Editor-in-Chief: these lines. The culprit is the Atlantic now less so due to the vagaries of uncertain Edmund M Chilaka A Ocean. In the past few weeks, most of the business fortunes in a struggling economy like Writers/Columnists: shanties and shacks that used to serve the Nigeria's. In our Nigerian Dredging Profile H I G H L I G H T S O F P R E S E N A T I O N S Galtima B. Liman (Maritime) Dr. Ege Emmanuel (Urban/Regional Planning) hospitality industry are gone; their owners left supplement, some space has been taken to update “The effects of hydrographic surveys in dredging activities: “The Lower River Niger Dredging Project- Dr. Charles Asenime (Geography / Environment) without their businesses. Most importantly that on the current realities and firms still on ground. Yemi Olakitan pristine ecosystem has been taken over by the a case study of Calabar Port dredging campaign” Prospects for Goal Attainment” by NIWA. Nehemiah Chinedu ocean waters and it is now becoming a We have also served in this edition a special focus by Nigerian Ports Authority nightmare to people who have erected palatial on the world of green field port development in Subscription/Sales: mansions on that waterfront. What will they do? Nigeria: the case of a deep sea port being Pre-dredge and post-dredge surveys and resolution of Iweha Chukwuemeka And, for that matter, what will the government at planned for Ibaka by the Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Efficient Dredging Outfits” by Engr Ben Efekarurhobo. Chibuzor Okafor disputes about quantity” by Surveyor Felix Osanebi. Emmanuel Vambe various levels do for remediation, if possible? and the Akwa Ibom State Government. After a Mineral investigation techniques and Cross River State We have covered the story in some depths, detailed presentation of the investment “The National Content Law and Empowerment of Local Office Assistant within the permissible press time available to us. background, we look at the prospects and politics Operators - Progress in Implementation” by the NCDMB”. mineral deposit profile. - By Dr. Archibong Otu Bassey.. Bonsu Alfred and some of the viability problems of such a highly In a related segment of the economy, the young desirable development. Keynote Address by Hon Minister of Transport, ALH. YUSUF SULEIMAN. Graphics/Pre-Press: tenure of Mr Patrick Akpobolokemi at the Nurturing A Viable Cabotage Industry For Safety, Security And Etimskill Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Among our star interviews, we have veered off the Greater Participation Of Nigerians Through The Local Content Legal Advisers: Agency (NIMASA) is being looked upon by beaten track to serve you the nitty-gritty of Taiwo Adesanya & Co Initiative by NIMASA. Editorial Advisory Board: industry stakeholders to become a watershed running a local government in Nigeria from the Capt. N. Adeyemo in the struggle of indigenous operators to take perspective of a maritime expert who worked as OTHER POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: BY ROYAL HASKONING, ETC.. D. Tony Enyia over the industry as the laws intended and as is private consultant to Dr Kema Chikwe, former SPECIAL TOURS: BOAT RIDE TO CALABAR RIVER DREDGING SITE. Dr. Charles Asenime the practice in other emerging maritime nations transport minister in 1999. He is Dr Wilson Omene EXCURSION TO THE FIRST GOVERNMENT HOUSE IN NIGERIA. Galtima Liman like India, Venezuela, Brazil, Malaysia and Odafe, a pioneer staff of the defunct National Dr. Ege Emmanuel. Indonesia. In this edition, our interviewees, Maritime Authority. He regales us with the rigour Acorn Media Services Ltd, 2010 ©. chiefly Dr Wilson Omene Odafe and Engineer of politics at that primary level and, speaking from Akin Olaniyan, hands-on practitioners in the this insight, queries aspects of the federal DATE: SEPTEMBER 14 - 16, 2011 Mission Statement: industry, having x-rayed the state of things in the government's amnesty programme for ex- “To report the industry of dredging, petroleum and sector, advise the new director-general to break militants, Niger Delta youth restiveness and the transportation, especially as an interwoven system, VENUE: MIRAGE HOTEL, CALABAR. and to generate and sustain therefrom discussion and new grounds by correcting the deviations of the path to lasting peace and the needed adjustments opinion leadership amongst its diverse actors, past which saw NIMASA engrossed more with for more revenue allocation favouring local TIME: 9:00AM - 4:00PM DAILY operators, local and overseas readers so as to advance what they call “peripheral” duties instead of its government authorities in the country. the industry locally with a cross-flow of international core mandate. The new helmsman's recent ideas as a part of the global human commercial activities suggest a new direction to pursue close Finally, does the rising Asian superpower, China, FOR REGISTRATION, COST OF PARTICIPATION AND BENEFITS, SEE WEBSITE www.ddhmag.com endeavour and for the better supply of services from working relations with associations and groups need Africa? You have to read the observations of CONTACT THE LAGOS WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT OR THE REP. IN CALABAR: these sectors to the Nigerian population.” in the industry which have been clamouring for Pier Luigi Carrodano, group managing director of this change to re-align with the original the Comet Group of Companies, the agents of Copyright for the contents of this magazine belongs to mandate to improve Nigerian participation in China Shipping in Nigeria to find out that the DREDGE SKILLS & MARINE Email: [email protected]; CALABAR Acorn Media Services Ltd. Reproduction, copying or international shipping. We bring you news, critical nexus between Nigerian sea trade and the [email protected] storing in a retrieval system or transmission in any analysis and interviews to portray this hugely expanding appetite of the Chinese TRAINING CENTRE LTD. DR. A. OTU BASSEY: 07084147323 form or by means without the publisher's prior prevailing mood. economic machine. E187, IKOTA SHOPPING COMPLEX, Website: www.ddhmag.com consent is not permitted. Editorial opinions expressed Dredge, Drill & Haul VGC, AJAH, LAGOS in are not necessarily those of the The Nigerian dredging industry is also riding the publishers. The publishers do not accept tempo of high-profile projects like the recent Tel: +234 (1) 7928166; 08033378735 responsibility for advertising content. Dredge, Drill & Haul quarterly is available by subscription or direct dredging of the lower Niger and epoch-making purchase from our office. landmarks like the Eko Atlantic City project SPONSORS whose reclamation at the Bar Beach in Lagos EXHIBITORS/ PARTICIPANTS: Dredge, Drill & Haul | Page 3 Nigerian Dredging E Summit G A P R E S E N T S Editorial P TH NIGERIAN DREDGING SUMMIT R E www.ddhmag.com N1,500 Vol.5 No. 15 2nd Quarter 2011 & H EXHIBITION S I L B CALABAR 2011 HAPPENING NOW: U ANOTHER BAR BEACH SAGA OPENS IN LEKKI ...As ALPHA BEACH is gobbled by Atlantic Ocean. P E Nigerian Dredging Profile: From Sand to Reclamation and Chinese Dredgers. Carrodano Engr. Olaniyan Dr. Omene H NPA’s Deep Sea Port at Ibaka, Akwa Ibom State: How Feasible? NIMASA: Search to Rescue Original Mandate. STAR INTERVIEWS “China Needs Africa...” - Carrodano. T 5 “Amnesty is good but the concept is faulty” -Dr. Omene. undup rintime News Ro Plus Nigerian Ma Vol. 5 No. 15, 2nd Quarter 2011 M O Dredge, Drill & Haul (ISSN: 1597 6475) R F is a publication of Acorn Media Services Ltd. Suite E187, Ikota Plaza, VGC, P.O. Box 37, Ajah, Lagos, Nigeria. Another Bar Beach saga in the making Tel: +234 1 7928166. Email: [email protected] www.ddhmag.com lpha Beach in the Lekki peninsula is seems to be racing to a conclusion. But many other Dredging for Transport, Oil & Gas and Delicate Environments. gradually being wiped out as you read companies that used to be vibrant in the sector are Editor-in-Chief: these lines.