Dear Justin, your blog created an 'aha' moment for me!!
I agree with your assertion that we must find out what we do best.
For instance in the 80's the Nigerian government spent 5billion dollars on a steel mill mouthing such platitudes as" No nation ever became an industrial power without steel manufacturing. I remember thinking : "it makes no sense" because steel mills at that time even in Pittsburgh were folding up due to \competition from Japan. Of a truth government policies - bad ones have been the bane of development in Africa.
I will order you book and read it.
I am the CEO of Gasafrique, a company that wants to see LNG replace diesel all over africa, reducing thereby the cost of SBE's and ‘Light Manufacturing in Africa" as you out it.
I will like to keep you in our inner circle.
To date, we have achieved a change in government perspective by breaking down the economics of Distributed generation. The Nigerian Government now has agreed to the decentralization of power generation and LNG to doorstep could play a big role in achieving this.
We believe this LNG value chain could be replicated across Africa -especially in countries with oil reserves. Those without oil reserves could import LNG and distribute it by road to the hinterlands and created distributed generation networks which could have at the nucleus industrial parks.
I have made a few slides on this and will like to share them with you]
Dear Justin, your blog created an 'aha' moment for me!!
I agree with your assertion that we must find out what we do best.
For instance in the 80's the Nigerian government spent 5billion dollars on a steel mill mouthing such platitudes as" No nation ever became an industrial power without steel manufacturing. I remember thinking : "it makes no sense" because steel mills at that time even in Pittsburgh were folding up due to \competition from Japan. Of a truth government policies - bad ones have been the bane of development in Africa.
I will order you book and read it.
I am the CEO of Gasafrique, a company that wants to see LNG replace diesel all over africa, reducing thereby the cost of SBE's and ‘Light Manufacturing in Africa" as you out it.
I will like to keep you in our inner circle.
To date, we have achieved a change in government perspective by breaking down the economics of Distributed generation. The Nigerian Government now has agreed to the decentralization of power generation and LNG to doorstep could play a big role in achieving this.
We believe this LNG value chain could be replicated across Africa -especially in countries with oil reserves. Those without oil reserves could import LNG and distribute it by road to the hinterlands and created distributed generation networks which could have at the nucleus industrial parks.
I have made a few slides on this and will like to share them with you]
Best regards
Obi
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