Williams Adeyemi

A Child of God | Engineer | Oil, Gas and Energy Enthusiast | Entrepreneur

[Williams Adeyemi @WAAdeyemi]

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[Williams Adeyemi @WAAdeyemi]

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[Williams Adeyemi @WAAdeyemi]

When all is said and done, I believe Palantir $PLTR will be one of the greatest stocks ever.

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@MBuhari God bless President Muhammadu Buhari. Sadly, those who are greedy and live through corruption never care about the welfare of those they are supposed to lead and whose interest they are supposed to protect.

[Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari]

A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE

by Muhammadu Buhari

RARELY in modern times can so few have tried to take so much from so many. If Nigeria had lost its arbitration dispute with Process & Industrial Development in a London court on 23 October, it would have cost our people close to USD15 billion.
We won, and all decent people can sleep easier as a result. Justice Robin Knowles said Nigeria had been the victim of a monstrous fraud. But it was a close-run thing. As the judge said: “I end the case acutely conscious of how readily the outcome could have been different, and of the enormous resources ultimately required from Nigeria as the successful party to make good its challenge.”
But ordinary Nigerians never took the decisions that ended up before Justice Knowles. Had Nigeria lost, it would have required schools not to be built, nurses not to be trained and roads not to repaired, on an epic scale, to pay a handful of contractors, lawyers and their allies - for a project that never broke ground.
How did it get to this point? How did Nigeria prevail? Was this a one-off, or par for a shabby and distasteful course? What are the lessons for the future?
The ‘P&ID Affair’ was already firmly set by the time I came into office in 2015. A company registered in the British Virgin Islands that no one had heard of, with hardly any staff or assets, had won a contract to build a gas processing plant in Cross Rivers. The company was owned by Irish intermediaries who knew Nigeria well and had done business in everything from healthcare to fixing tanks.
The previous government could not supply the gas. The plant was never built. Construction was not started. P&ID did not even buy the land for the facility. But the contract, incredibly, was clear: P&ID could sue Nigeria, and claim all the profits it might have made over 20 years as if everything had been completed.
Nigeria was in court in London, trying to talk down liability and costs. Back at home, fixers were looking to work out a quiet settlement. This is often the way. A lot of contracts end up in dispute. P&ID won a settlement in 2017 of USD6 billion, with compound interest. People, including out of work ex-British Cabinet Minister Priti Patel, were queuing up to insist we paid, or risk Nigeria becoming an untrustworthy trade pariah.
It was clear that far from the whole story had been told. I tasked Abba Kyari, my chief- of-staff and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, with finding a way, even at that late stage and despite so much conflicting advice, to get us a fair hearing. Working with a number of different agencies and senior officials of government, we began to find a huge amount of evidence, not all of which Justice Knowles was to accept. But he agreed that P&ID had paid bribes. He agreed that one of P&ID’s founders had committed perjury. And he agreed that P&ID had somehow found in its possession a steady supply of Nigeria’s privileged internal legal documents, outlining our plans, strategies and problems.
My own view is that this whole, sorry affair shows how important it is to follow the legal process in resolving a dispute. It shows that given time and opportunity for each side to present their case, the temple of justice can satisfactorily resolve all disputes without resort to extra-judicial measures. It was definitely worth the struggle: this was an attempted heist of historic proportions, an attempt to steal from the treasury a third of Nigeria’s foreign reserves.
But even at this moment, we should note what the English judge cautioned. The arbitration process in London “was a shell that got nowhere near the truth.” We need better contracts, in the public and private sector. And we need greater transparency: the reality is that, had P&ID not conjured up quite such an outlandish ransom, they may have found themselves in the same place as the myriad other invisible contractors who all too often quietly take Nigeria for many millions in out of court settlements. Sterner sanctions are indicated for Nigerian public officials who have been proven to connive with foreign criminals to defraud our country.
Nigeria has won this battle with corruption, but the war is far from over. As Justice Knowles concluded: “This case has also, sadly, brought together a combination of examples of what some individuals will do for money. Driven by greed and prepared to use corruption; giving no thought to what their enrichment would mean in terms of harm for others. Others that in the present case include the people of Nigeria, already let down in so many ways over the history of this matter by a number of individuals in politics and administration whose duty it was to serve them and protect them.” Well said.

Muhammadu Buhari served as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2015-23

[Williams Adeyemi @WAAdeyemi]

@alakijaofficial Congratulations Madam.

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Stock market is brutal! The more you look, the less you see. Nothing is certain! $NVDA

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It is still less than 2years since my last comment about these stocks. Some will bounce back but some will keep going down. @udlinodlame @JonErlichman With disposable income shrinking day by day, many of these stocks will still decline the more.

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@unhlangothi @JonErlichman The special thing about the 10 year interval is that COVID-19 and 2008 crisis do not have the same effect on the stock market. Let's wait for the next 10 years and see if these stocks can sustain the steam. Exxon and GE were once on the top until the game changed.

[Williams Adeyemi @WAAdeyemi]

Why would Europe ever think of using coal again to generate electricity again? I know narration around climate change will soon change. Europe is always right. Social scientists are always right.

[Williams Adeyemi @WAAdeyemi]

@LawrenceAdeyemo We do not have a replacement for crude oil at the moment but the real picture is covered by politics. Our current civilization has fossil fuel at its core. Engineering revolution which will displace crude oil will still use crude oil and its maturity will not happen soon.

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Lol. May Allah never show us a day we will willingly humiliate ourselves by being ingrates. We are waiting for you all…

[Williams Adeyemi @WAAdeyemi]

It is interesting to witness these days. I am glad many people can now know by experience that there are many things that are more important than green energy and there are many things that can cause human extinction faster than climate change.#EnergyCrisis

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#Oil price update: $113.75 📈

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#Oil price update: $109.06 📉

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#Oil price update: $99.97 📈

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