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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Owoyimika Tobi Timothy CONTENT I TECHNICAL & CREATIVE WRITER Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal ENERGY CORRESPONDENT Jackson Olagbaju BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVES Genevieve Aningo BRAND AMBASSADOR Chiamaka Nwokeukwu Nigerian Nollywood Actress

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Cello Electronic unveils solar powered TV in Nigerian market

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Osaneku Monday Nzei

Editorial Contents

Ayobami Adedinni SUPPORTING PARTNER Victor Osu - Doctoral Researcher [PhD] Sustainability Transition and Governance Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

...creating global opportunities Special Edition: Spotlight Publication on IBIS LAGOS IKEJA HOTEL

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ConMin West Africa 2017

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Product Launch

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Exclusive Interview (RECP)

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Industry News

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Solar Future Nigeria 2017

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Cross Talk

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Spotlight on Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel

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Photo Gallery

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Opinion

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Oil and Gas News

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Local Content

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Solar Energy

Issue: June 2017

'We offer Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS) for Energy, which is dedicated to helping companies secure every layer of their industrial infrastructure, without impacting on the operational continuity and consistency of technological processes' - Riaan Badenhorst, MD, Kaspersky Lab Africa

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CONMIN WEST AFRICA 2017

ConMin West Africa features latest machinery for construction and mining industries in Africa

Conmin West Africa, organized by Afrocet Montgomery, UK based event management company with over 100 years experience delivering innovative and first-class exhibitions and shows covering various industries from construction to mining industry.

With over 180 exhibitors, Conmin West Africa will feature latest machinery and solutions available in the global market place, there is no better platform than ConMin West Africa. The event will provide the opportunity for companies to exhibit their latest products and services to both regional and international visitors and delegates. The event covers the entire construction industry, machinery, mining and building materials which will also enable foreign investors to gain valuable insight on the opportunities in the West Africa’s market.

Afrocet launched Conmin West Africa and National Mining Summit to unlock the region’s potential and growing construction machinery and mining industry. The event has the full support of the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals, the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and the Miners Association of Nigeria.

Afrocet launched ConMin West Africa to service the rapidly growing construction machinery and mining industries in Africa.

Currently there is no forum in West Africa that offers a platform for the key stakeholders, both regionally and internationally, to converge and discuss business prospects while also addressing pertinent issues facing the industries

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In 2016, 2016, the Nigerian government launched the Solid Minerals Roadmap to detail the growth and development of the Nigerian Mining Industry. The successful exploration and exploitation of its mineral resources has been prioritised as the next frontier of opportunity for development in Nigeria. The government aspires to build a world class minerals and mining ecosystem designed to serve a targeted domestic and export market for minerals and ores. And with the recently announced mining sector Fund of $500 million and accompanying improvement of the investment environment – there has never been a better time to engage in the Nigerian Mining Space.

According to news report, the government anticipates contribution to mining GDP to exceed $25 billion by 2026 as industries are better able to use the output of the sector, There is also some minerals that have the potential to make a significant contribution to Nigeria’s economic development. These include: Barite, Gold, Bitumen, Iron ore, Lead/Zinc, Coal, Limestone. And, the government have created a favourable climate for business and industrial ventures.

Administrative and bureaucratic procedures have been greatly streamlined which includes policies and programmes to unlock the potentials of the Nigerian mining business.

ConMin West Africa will be featuring various sessions to discussing way forward and to improve the industries within the West Africa region.

About the event organizer Montgomery is made up of a number of subsidiary companies and partnerships specialising in international trade fairs.

Afrocet Montgomery is a joint venture between Montgomery and a deep-rooted African exhibition organiser in Afrocet. It has a long history of running events throughout Africa and has worked in the past with a number of global exhibition companies as a local partner. Afrocet’s understanding of the market in West Africa made for the perfect partnership with Montgomery to take on, develop and build on their exhibitions in the region and look at expanding the portfolio in line with the ever changing markets in the region.

Today, Montgomery is an independent exhibition and events company at the forefront of trade and consumer shows in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

With over fifty events in over fifteen countries , and covers the fields of art, photography and design, food, drink and hospitality, homes and building, technology, security, mining and industrial as well as automotive. These events cover both trade and consumer shows as well as specialist events.

Montgomery has its own specialist consultancy firm, 15 wholly owned and joint venture companies all over the world, and owns the largest exhibition venue in Africa.

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PRODUCT LAUNCH

Cello Electronics unveils world’s first solar TV in the Nigerian Market

By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal

“Cello Electronics has a long running history in solar business and has become the only LED TV brand that still manufactures products in the UK” - David Faint, Cello Electronics (UK) Limited

UK based company, Cello Electronics has launched the world’s first solar TV in the Nigerian market. The product was launched in Lagos at the Solar Future Nigeria 2017, Nigeria’s first solar PV conference, organized

by SolarPlaza.

Speaking with Oil and Gas Republic journalist, David Faint the company’s sales director said the solar TV has multiple functions and can be used to charge batteries for a variety of uses.

This TV can be operated in remote regions of the world where there is no electricity or aerial installation.

Cello Electronics was established since 2001, based in the north of England. The company has a long running history in solar business and has become the only LED TV brand that still manufacturers products in the UK. From the production line in Bishop Auckland, County Durham it makes LED TVs from 16? to 85?. As well as TVs it also offers a wide range of accessories, TV cabinets, soundbars and digital tablets. The company is one of Europe’s most innovative LED TV brands. Recently the company has expanded its product range to include digital tablets, laptops and all-in-one PCs.

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It’s an all-in-one package that includes the LED TV, portable solar panel and TV aerial in one box. It comes with 2 lamps with independent switches with 6m long cables.

“We are new to the Nigerian market and we are currently looking for local partners here in Nigeria that will help us distribute these products across the entire nation. The partner has to be a well established company with experience in solar products and electricity products and also have a financial capability to buy the products in stock, David Faint said” Speaking further, he said, Cello solar TV will reduce the cost of buying fuels in Nigeria and making the environment more green. “In UK everybody wants a TV to use it in watching sports such as footballs, movies and in Nigeria the same thing applies” Cello also focuses much of its efforts on providing the best after sales service in the industry. Cello’s goal is not only to provide an efficient and professional after sales facility, but also to offer superior technical support. Both of these services are highly advanced in comparison to the after sales offered by its competitors.

Domestic solar power systems are often fitted with a battery system that can be charged during the day and then used during the night (when solar panels are unable to generate electricity.) The same principle applies for solar garden lighting where a light unit will charge its internal battery during the day so that there is enough electricity stored to power its light bulb during the night.

A modern take on the principle of using solar energy to charge battery packs can be seen with the introduction of solar charging kits for handheld appliances such as smartphones and tablets. These come in a variety of forms and allow you to charge your devices on the go providing there is an adequate source of solar energy.

The Cello solar powered TV is an out of the box solution that is simple to operate. The TV is positioned in the viewing area whilst the solar panel and smart antenna is placed in a suitable location outdoors. The internal battery can be changed if needed. Cello products are distributed throughout the UK and also has business operations in Kenya as it aims to expand its business to other African countries.

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“In order to help your project acquire the funding it needs, RECP has developed a database of equity, loan and grant facilities for private renewable energy projects in Africa” Alexander Huppertz

How RECP connect African Entrepreneurs to Investors

By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal Africa Renewable Energy Cooperation Program (RECP), Project Manager, Alexander Huppertz has provided an onverview of RECP involvement in project financing in the African region.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Oil and Gas Republic Journalist during the match making session at Solar Future Nigeria 2017, Alexander Huppertz said that Africa Renewable Energy Cooperation Program (RECP) is a European development program funded by the European Union and commissioned in various zones with the aim of improving energy access, increasing the shares of renewables through market development by providing market information for private sector stakeholders and organizing series of match making platforms for entrepreneurs from Europe and Africa and as well as helping country projects to access funding.

Financing Projects RECP doesn't finance project directly but have a network of financiers which it work

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with and have agreement with the financiers to enhance the quality of projects before laying the projects to the financiers. In one word, RECP connect African Entrepreneurs (project developers) to investors (financiers), Alexander, the project manager of Africa Renewable Energy Cooperation Program, has said.

Project Development RECP work with financiers by liasing and making them understand what kind of projects is ready for development, what kind of business models and market segment that is currently in service from companies operating in this market in order to enable them make use of their financial products effectively.

Quality of Projects Alexander, who is the project manager of RECP, said that there are lots of project developers that has no access to finance but sometimes if you attend events in Europe for instance, you will hear people say there are lots of renewable energy projects available in Africa which needs finance and after all the research and development on the projects, we will find out that there is no ready made projects on ground. In this kind of situation, RECP works strictly to verify the authenticity of the projects before laying them to investors. “We also work on breaching the gaps between project developers and financiers to bringing both parties together, he added”

Business Services According to Alexander, RECP offers a whole range of business activities, matchmaking platforms, information workshop, provide market profiles for entrepreneurs that doesn't really know much about the energy sector in Nigeria & Africa and interested to enter the market. RECP's website provides useful information for the energy sector.

“We also provide various trainings, business activities in the private sector and to stakeholders and we also have a component on policy adversory which is focused on private sector cooperation, he added"

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Exclusive Interview

THE PROJECT MANAGER WHO HAS HELPED TO STEER ENERGY PROJECT AT RECP PROJECT MANAGER I ALEXANDER HUPPERTZ I RECP Alexander Huppertz, Project Manager at Africa Renewable Energy Cooperation Program (RECP), tells Oil and Gas Republic Journalist, Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal how they help project developers in Nigeria & Africa by connecting them to financiers irrespective of the projects. He said that RECP was launched in Nigeria since August 2016 and have currently advised over 25 projects in total.

Tell us about RECP evolutionary journey to the Nigerian Energy Market?

Africa Renewable Energy Cooperation Program (RECP) was launched in Nigeria since August 2016. We help project developers (entrepreneurs) in Nigeria access finance not only equity or debt funding but also include risk mitigation. We also work closely with TCX fund and we provide our support services by a way of verifying those projects that has risk mitigation instrument as we aren't able take away the risk and the risk is there already. For instance, if you hedge your credit in hard currency and you have your revenue in local currency it will remain a major challenge especially if there is currency flotation as Nigeria experienced it some few years back.

There are different ways of looking into the future on how these could change. One would be lending in local currency so that there will be an opportunity to get debt funding in Naira directly so that your revenue in funding will remain in the same denomination and i think that might take sometime before we could reach the point where there will be local funds available.

On a recent development, local banks and African banks are beginning to realize the potential of renewable energy investment though there are still challenges in finding the right projects to deploy the right risk mitigation but i think there will be lots of improvement in the coming years.

Please can you briefly highlight some of RECP’s success stories in Nigeria and as well as Africa?

Since August 2016, we started these services in Nigeria so its relatively new and so far we have currently advised over 25 projects (total) in the world.

Our role in the Nigerian energy market is enormous as we usually ask Nigerian entrepreneurs (project developers) to submit details of their project so we could connect them to the right financiers based on the structure of the project. Since we came into the Nigerian market, we have successfully done over 2 projects and the project developers have access to funds right now.

In Africa, our first project that reached financial close was in Burundi. These project will increase the energy generating capacity in Burundi by 14%.

The RECP connects African and European Developers and Investors

In the meantime, we are actively looking for more projects in Africa and applications to submit projects is still open. If your subscribers at Oil and Gas Republic have any projects they should submit them to us for review and proper evaluation.

RECP supports European and African entrepreneurs through the provision of dedicated market information. www.oilandgasrepublic.com

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What size of projects do you work on?

We operate within the medium size project such as 300 to 500MW hydro damn or 300MW wind power projects. We are focused on middle scale projects everything from 4.5MW to 50 - 80MW projects and we also have interest on small projects below 500 kilowatts.

We do everything from the solar home systems through all the way like home consumption projects for industry that isn't connected in the grid but directly consumed from processing plant all the way up to the grid.

In terms of market segment, we cover the entire range but only on the utility scale because we aren't doing the big projects.

At RECP, we work on all renewables from biomass, biogass, hydro, solar, wind etc... On hydro, we focus on small hydro damns not the big hydro business but among these, we deal on all the technologies.

Based on you vast experience in solar energy, how do you think solar energy will contribute to Nigerian energy mix?

Solar energy can be part of the solution in resolving the Nigerian energy crisis and i wouldn't suggest that Nigeria will run on 100% solar but solar energy will always be an energy mix in the power sector of Nigeria.

For the foreseable future, Gas Power Plant will have a role to play in the Nigerian energy mix hopefully with the diminishing one or also with the new climate change objectives which has become a top priority for the country.

Possible Solution The way forward is certainly distributing the energy mix across various resources of the power sector. And, looking at the abundant resources in Nigeria, it will be the combination of large scale solar plant and we need to be mindful of the amount of megawatts hours these solar plants will be able to produce and also put in place the infrastructures that will work efficiently with the solar plants.

Though there might be limited opportunities for large scale wind project in some areas and there are several hydro site that can be allocated and if you combine all these resources including small scale solar in the metropolitan area, you will end up with a combination where you have gas plant to reduce baseload and you will have a growing solar component, wind component and hydro component which underpins for these loads as well and it will provide a sustainable system. But again, before this can ever be put into place, there is a lot of work that needs to be done on the grid.

We would like to use this medium to thank our event partners for their continuous support to Oil and Gas Republic in 2017!

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Nigeria’s Electricity Potentials Unlocked at Solar Future Nigeria 2017

TCN Energize 40mva 132/33kv Mobile Power Transformer at Damboa, Bornu State

Kaspersky Lab Cybersecurity In The Energy Sector: Safeguarding enterprises and critical infrastructure

Industry Leaders and Stakeholders to Gather in Lagos for Power Nigeria 2017 Informa Exhibitions is set to organize a 3-days conference and exhibition in Lagos on 5 - 7 September, 2017 at Landmark Centre, Lagos.

Nigeria’s leading power exhibition, Power Nigeria, is dedicated to the burgeoning Nigerian power industry. Prior to this B2B trade event, the organisers of Power Nigeria, Informa Exhibitions, will gather a large number of leading power personalities and stakeholders to present plans for the future of the Nigerian Power Sector.

With Informa’s strong track record of organising exhibitions (including the world’s largest power event, Middle East Electricity),

Power Nigeria is poised to become the country’s main hub for trade and knowledge share within the Nigerian power sector. The overwhelming sentiment that the Nigerian power market has great potential but the sector requires major action. With President Muhammadu Buhari’s public commitment to invest heavily in the power sector, the Power Nigeria exhibition and conference takes place at a critical time for contractors, consultants, distributors and traders to forge strong relationships with international and local suppliers. Electricity delivered safely, reliably and affordably is commensurate with the growth of a nation and the single, most

impactful element when it comes to personal comfort. According to report, Nigeria produced about 5,000 MW of power on the National Grid for about 180 million people in 2016, falling extremely short of expectations. Government incentives have made Nigeria a highly competitive destination with massive untapped resources in power (generation to distribution).

Power Nigeria exhibition and conference has become the platform where the who’s who of the Nigerian power industry - from decision makers and industry leaders to experts and engineers - gather to collaborate towards a brighter future for the country. The 2017 edition of Power Nigeria will be its brightest one yet, with over 200 exhibitors from 12 countries and a special country pavilion from the middle east featuring their companies.

The exhibition will be held in conjunction with the three-day Power Nigeria Conference, which starts with the Government and DISCO states of address on day one, where delegates will get to hear from the Hon. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, NERC, and many others. The second day of the conference will focus on key finance issues of the Nigerian power sector; with the gas to power workshops. Over the years, Power Nigeria has grown to become the place where the Power Industry’s who’s who comes to learn, liaise, and do business. Consistent growth has made Power Nigeria a must attend event in the country’s energy industry.

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“In order to help your project acquire the funding it needs, RECP has developed a database of equity, loan and grant facilities for private renewable energy projects in Africa� Alexander Huppertz

SOLAR FUTURE NIGERIA 2017

Nigeria’s Electricity Potentials Unlocked at Solar Future Nigeria 2017

By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal Nigerian electricity potentials was unlocked at Solar Future Nigeria 2017, first PV conference held in Lagos and organized by Solarplaza. The event brought together over 250 industry p r o f es s i o n a ls , g o v e r n me n t o ff i ci als , developers, and investors. Based on the huge interest of solar energy investment, Nigeria is on the spotlight and has become a leader in solar energy in the African region.

According to the report from the event, The sector is on a good way to roll-out large-scale renewables. Renewables (in particular PV solar) can add much needed generation capacity in a relatively short period of time compared to conventional power plants with longer construction times. There are a lot of advantages that authorities will need to explore.

Some major challenges in expanding renewables in the region includes inconsistencies in the regulatory framework, lack of protection of investors and long licensing procedures etc...

With regards to the current state of renewable energy in the country, Renewable energy over the years has received significant attention from policy makers, investors, private sector, civil society, and others owing to its great potential in the country. The recent privatization of the

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Nigerian Power Sector has also helped to address the need for the deployment of renewable energy in various locations of the country.

According to reports from Industry experts, Renewable Energy is the advantage of renewables over other conventional energy sources. The integration of renewable energy systems into the national system need not follow the conventional power infrastructure.

Renewable Energy technologies are very compatible with a decentralized, stand-alone or small power generating unit, which enables local/rural communities far from urban areas to have access to basic electricity needs.

Furthermore renewable energy off-grid systems do not put unnecessary burden on existing grid capacity, neither do they require system balancing nor need to be managed by the national grid system operators. But, there is a unique opportunity for African countries to have a diversified energy source and yet to limit the risks of exposing the continent to the current high costs of power infrastructure which are not expected to decline in the nearest future. The renewable energy sector in Nigeria is growing fast and with the right framework, large and small scale projects are doable.

Unrestricted access to electric power, provides enormous opportunity, economic growth and importantly, it connects the West Nigerian people with the rest of the world.

Providing adequate electricity in Nigeria, to homes and businesses, remains a primary concern for the development of the Nigerian economy.

Although, power production has incrementally increased across the nation, with a goal of producing over 5,000 megawatts (MW) of cleaner electricity generation capacity. Every new connection provides opportunities for individuals and businesses across the nation to achieve their potentials and overcome common obstacles of economic growth. This positive trajectory will be attainable if sustainability is effectively integrated into developmental plans, through planning that will include; domestic capacity development for infrastructure management, leveraging private sector investment and building transparent governmental partnerships with stakeholders. Additionally, implementing critical and resourceful policy reforms, will attract investment to the sector.

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CROSSTALK

BY RIAAN BADENHORST, MANAGING DIRECTOR, KASPERSKY LAB AFRICA

Kaspersky Lab Cybersecurity In The Energy Sector

n today’s highly interconnected world, reliable energy delivery requires cyber-resilient energy delivery systems. A country’s security, economic prosperity, and the well-being of its citizens depends on reliable energy infrastructure.

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protocols and do not have sufficient built-in cybersecurity functions to combat the increasingly sophisticated range of security threats they face.

An effective security approach and solutionis needed, to further help the energy sector in managing this. Such an approach to cybersecurity in the energy sector must accumulate intelligence on the latest threats, in order to develop protection technologies that are effective. This is especially true for industrial infrastructure, which has specific threats, highly customised hardware and software, and strict requirements for reliability.

Malicious attacks on industrial systems – including industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) – have increased significantly in recent years. As the Stuxnet and BlackEnergy attacks have shown, one infected USB drive or single spear-phishing email is all it takes for attackers to bridge the air gap and penetrate an isolated network. Traditional security is no Kaspersky Lab’s recent longer enough to protect industrial environ ments from cyber threats. As threats targeti report on industrial ng critical infrastructure increase, choosing cybersecurity found the right advisor and technology partner to that 92% of externally secure your systems has never been more i mportant. available industrial

control system (ICS)

Kaspersky Lab offers Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS) for Energy, which is dedicated to helping energy companies secure every layer of their industrial infrastructure, without impacting on the operational continuity and consistency of technological processes.

As a result of technology innovations, ‘self devices use open and -contained’ electrical power control system s can no longer be considered isolated. Rat Kaspersky Lab’s solution protects insecure Internet her, most are now globally integrated, conn SCADA level control centers and connection protocols. ecting with other corporate services. In the Substation Automation Systems on energy sector, new levels of connectivity, every level: upper level of automation combined with the pervasiveness of IT and Internet including: Servers, HMI, Gateways, Engineering technologies in daily life (smart grids) is a reality, however workstations. Secondary automation equipment: Protection these systems can be highly exposed from an IT security relays, Bay Controllers, Merging units, RTU and other perspective, which creates major challenges for the electric substation bus and process bus IED and overall network power sector. infrastructure.

The risk of cyber-attacks in the energy sector is greater than ever before and,as a result, IT security has become a key point of discussion within the industrial sector. Modern electrical power grids are complex networks, with integrated automation and control functions, that communicate through open

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lectrical power equipment automation, control and protection are no longer handled by c l o s e d systems and, as things stand, detecting a potential threat can be extremely difficult, both technically and organisationally. The energy sector needs to start paying very careful attention to IT security of their industrial infrastructure. Energy enterprises need to bolster their defenses to combat increasingly prevalent cyberattacks and avoid the nightmare scenario of complete loss of service – not to mention the impact that this would have on citizens and society in general, should an attack happen.

There may be some overlap in the threats, however there are significant differences between the cyber securityrequirements of ICS environments and those of general business.Corporate environments focus on safeguarding confidential data; when it comes to industrial systems,where every minute of downtime or error counts, uninterrupted operations are the ultimate priority.This is what distinguishes industrial cybersecurity from other businesses – and makes working withthe right security vendor so important.

Industrial cybersecurity solutions should include three key pillars: • A process-based approach to security implementation • Employee awareness/education • Technologies created specifically for industrial environments Kaspersky Lab’s industrial cybersecurity approach is holistic: • Process: There’s no out-of-box solution for industrial cybersecurity. It’s a process that begins withan audit, prepares people for change and moves through gradual roll-out with minimal disruption.

• People: Every employee – from business to factory floor – plays a role in cybersecurity. Trainingand education, such as Kaspersky Industrial Protection Simulation (KIPS) game, is vital.

• Technology: Kaspersky Lab has developed solutions based on unique technologies, designed specificallyfor industrial security needs. Fault-tolerant and non-disruptive, they can even work in air-gap conditions.

Safeguarding Enterprises and Critical Infrastructure in the Energy Industr:y Through our research, Kaspersky Lab have identified a few key challenging areas within the energy sector that need more attention, in order to safeguard enterprises and critical Infrastructure in thisindustry. These include: • Open and unprotected communication lines between protection and control system components, as well as between power infrastructure facilities.

• Lack of cybersecurity awareness among employees - a limited number of technical personnel maintain large numbers of devices that are oftendistributed on a territory and function without permanent monitoring. On-site personnel often lack even a basic knowledge of cybersecurity.

• Security requirements are not followed - information security requirements are rarely considered in the device or software design and development processes for technological infrastructures.

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• Complexities of contractor access control - the use of contracting organisations for certain types of maintenance work is common.Consequently however, it is extremely important to provide only temporary access to a limitedamount of equipment that has no influence on other system components, and cancellation ofaccess on completion of the work is vital.

• Long lifetime of vulnerable components - the lifetime of devices and protection and control systems is 20-30 years. This means that insecure systemsinstalled today will only be replaced in a couple of decades or so.

In addition to this, the lack of guidelines defining actions to be taken when suspicious activity is detected within automated systems, also leads to an organisation being vulnerable. Furthermore, the lack of documents and practices relating to the investigation of disturbances in technological environments - including malicious influence on control systems through information technologies, also leads to further vulnerability (for example, due to their age, some reference documents for the investigation and classification of technological disturbances do not even consider cybersecurity incidents as a possible cause of malfunction).

If such an incident even takes place, the concern is that the real causes will not be revealed. As a result, the appropriate measures will not be taken and the incident may reoccur. Given these realities, it is evident that the energy sector needs to invest in IY security that effectively safeguards their infrastructure and takes all of the above into account.

The IEC 62351 “Power systems management and associated information exchange - Data and communications security” standard describes in detail the possible tools for complex information security provision at electric power facilities.

However, most of the proposed solutions can only be implemented with a complete replacement of automation devices as soon as they require format and communication protocol procedure modifications. Even though a full implementation of IEC 62351 looks like a distant prospect under the circumstances, part of the requirements can be fulfilled and applied to modern systems. Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS)is a holistic solution for industrial infrastructures that fulfills these requirements.

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ompanies using Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity are Latvian SIA VARS that specializes in the storage and shipment of liquid chemicals; TANECO Russian oil refining company that is part of Tatneft

Group.

Latus SARDZE and Kaspersky Lab worked together to identify the major priorities for the deployment of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity. The operating system had to be rebooted within a strict time period, a process window had to be created, resource consumption by the product needed to be manageable and notifications could not be shown on the ICS/SCADA operator’s display.

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A number of factors make the terminal unique: it is located in a free economic zone of an ice-free deep-water port, has convenient transport links and collaborates closely with chemical and petrochemical terminals located nearby.

The VARS petrochemical terminal includes several key sites with critical infrastructure: • A loading/unloading platform, equipped with loading points that can simultaneously handle 12 rail tank cars or 20 rail containers, enabling product loading at a rate of up to 110m3/hr • A tank farm of six tanks, each holding 2,000m3 • Onshore and offshore product pipeline sections - two strings with a diameter of 200mm and each with a pipeline length of 1,200m • A gas cleaning unit designed to capture and clean acrylonitrile vapours from exhaust gases that form during loading and unloading operations and during storage in tanks • A fixed offshore shipping berth Challenge As operations at VARS involve the handling of hazardous toxic materials, it is very important to eliminate any human errors.

Operational processes are therefore automated and managed

by ICS/SCADA. Because of this reliance on automation, information security is critical. A random virus attack or internal security breach may present a threat not only to the business itself but also to employees and the environment, as the company is located only 120 metres from the Baltic Sea and is very close to the populated area of Ventspils. The stable running of the shipment terminal is essential to the business.

“If the VARS terminal stops operating, this could disrupt the normal functioning of the plant, which would cause significant financial losses and technology problems associated with the restarting of the chemical facility,” says VARS Technical Director, Roman Yanukovich. The fact that this is an industrial network, however, means it is impossible to use standard IT security software designed for corporate environments.

The Kaspersky Lab Solution “Having spoken with our partner SIA Latus SARDZE and having studied the market, we opted for the Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity solution to protect the industrial control system for the acrylonitrile shipment and storage line,” says VARS Technical Director, Roman Yanukovich. “What interested us most was the application control whitelisting mode that only allows trusted programmes to be launched.”

Roman Yanukovich, Technical Director, SIA VARS also said "Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity meets thier requirements in full and has also enabled functions such as device control as well as centralised control and monitoring of the protected units.“

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ANECO is a Russian oil refining company and part of the $15 billion Ta t n e f t G r o u p . T h e company was created in 2005 to drive oil and petrochemical production in the Tatarstan region of the country. It is the first industrial facility of its scale built from scratch in post-Soviet Russia. The project continues to increase production, contributing significantly to the Tatarstan economy. By unit capacity, Tatneft is now Russia’s largest oil refinery.

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The next phase of development will see TANECO expand its mix of petroleum products in line with international production standards and environmental compliance.

TANECO’s strategy is to focus on hi-tech, efficient and environmentally friendly oil refining processes. The company plans to create a range of oilbased products, strengthening vertical integration within the Tatneft Group.

Challenge TANECO’s success is heavily reliant on the continuity of manufacturing processes. The company uses industrial control systems (ICS) to deliver a technology edge over the competition and minimize production costs.

However, the growing level of production automation and the use of technologies originally designed for corporate networks in its industrial infrastructure have exposed the company to the risk of cyber-attacks.

TANECO initially brought in Kaspersky Lab to audit the IT security of its rail discharge terminal handling vacuum gas oil (VGO) supplies. Kaspersky Lab was then challenged with implementing a pilot project to demonstrate cyber security functionality for operator/engineering workstations and SCADA servers.

Part of the cybersecurity system would also need to monitor the integrity of the industrial network and control the critical parameters of the process flow. The requirements also stated that the solution should not interfere with the existing industrial control system.

The Kaspersky Lab solution Marat Gilmutdinov, Head of Industrial Control Systems Department, TANECO, says the business has worked with Kaspersky Lab for years: “We’ve relied on Kaspersky Lab for many years to protect our corporate network. We didn’t think twice when it came to choosing who to trust with the information security of our industrial facilities.

“Having analyzed the potential threats faced by hi-tech oil refineries, we opted for the Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity solution by Kaspersky Lab. It was important for us to buy a solution developed domestically by a vendor capable of providing prompt assistance with any possible issues during deployment and operation.”

Results Gilmutdinov says the project to secure the VGO discharge terminal was completed successfully, with Kaspersky Lab experts working alongside TANECO’s in-house team: “The capabilities of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity exceeded all our expectations. Just months after deployment, Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity detected an unauthorized connection attempt by an outside laptop to one of the controllers. The attackers were attempting to modify the operation settings of a sensor.

“The project demonstrates that solutions like this can be used successfully with industrial facilities. TANECO plans to further expand cooperation with Kaspersky Lab in providing security for its industrial networks.”

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Marat Gilmutdinov, Head of Industrial Control Systems Department, TANECO said that “ The performance of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity exceeded all our expectations. Just months after deployment, the solution detected an unauthorized connection attempt by an outside laptop to one of the controllers.” oday’s approach to cybersecurity highlights the importance of accumulating intelligence on the latest threats, in order to develop protection technologies. This is especially true for industrial infrastructure, which has specific threats, highly customised hardware and software, and strict requirements for reliability. As a security vendor, we have years of experience analysing threats and helping industrial operators with threat prevention and detection, incident response, staff training, and the prediction of future attack vectors. We are confident that sharing intelligence, or, in a broader way, exchanging knowledge between vendors and operators, is an important step towards more secure critical infrastructure. By establishing Industrial Systems Computer Emergency Response Team (known as Kaspersky Lab ICSCERT) we are expanding the availability of the industry’s expertise in a way that no other private security vendor has done before.

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establishing data and information transfer standards for multivendor, multi-platform, secure and reliable industrial interoperability independent from markets.

Protecting ICS environments calls for a very different approach from that used for securing business IT systems. For business IT networks, the first priority is maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive business data – and, although availability of the IT service is important, it’s not as vital as confidentiality and integrity. However, the reverse is true for industrial control – where continuous availability of the process is paramount. It’s all about protecting the process and eliminating disruptions.

The other vital difference is related to the technologies that are used in ICS environments. Although business IT networks are largely based on a few standard operating systems, applications and hardware components, this isn’t the case for industrial systems.

ICS environments can be extremely customised and complex – full of proprietary technologies, SCADA servers, HumanMachine Interfaces, PLCs and legacy or obsolete sub-systems.

This adds to the security challenge as every business’s control infrastructure is unique and the security solution has to be tailored to fit this.

Kaspersky Lab actively collaborates with other vendors and organisations, such as OPC Foundation, a global organisation

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Special Edition: Spotlight Publicationon Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel

June 2017

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he ibis Lagoso Ikeja hotel offers affordable accommodation with its 165 air-conditioned comfortable rooms. The hotel is ideal for business travellers as all guests have access to free WIFI, a self-service business center and 4 conference rooms available for professional events or meetings. The hotel is located 10 minutes away from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The hotel offers guests access to a gym, outdoor pool, 2 bars and a restaurant which offers all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast.

Equipped with the new Sweet Bed by ibis bedding, the new ibis room offers the ultimate in comfort: large double bed, desk, internet, parquet flooring, LCD flat screen TV with all the best channels and a bathroom with shower or bathtub.

The ibis breakfast is an 'all-you-can-eat buffet' served between 6.30 and 10 am, combining all the elements of a traditional continental breakfast.

Wherever you are in the world, you'll find ibis breakfasts also include local specialties for you to enjoy.

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The ibis brands are part of AccorHotels, which has been committed to various causes for many years and has never stopped pushing boundaries.

With the Planet 21 programme, the group has set ambitious goals for 2020, based on four strategic priorities: Working closely with employees, getting guests involved, innovating with partners, taking action in local communities; and on two key issues: sustainable food and buildings.

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REGIONAL PROFILE

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

LAGOS STATE

The City of Lagos is Africa's Largest and fastest growing Over 1,000 people enter Lagos State every economy in the world day in search of business and job opportunities; and the state welcomes them with open arms. Through various initiatives, the state has been able to create millions of jobs for its millions of people and also grow its economy. Its government in December 2014 articulated the Lagos State Development Plan (LSDP) for 20122025. The plan aims to transform Lagos into a model megacity that is productive, secure, sustainable, functional and safe.

The main “pillars” of the vision are economic development, infrastructural development, social development, security and sustainable growth.

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he city of Lagos, officially called Lagos State, is a state located in the southwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Lagos has a rich history of economic growth and transformation although it covers the smallest area of Nigeria's 36 states, occuping an area of 3,577 sq km. 22% or 787sq. km. Lagos State is the most populous city in Nigeria, fifth largest economy in Africa and the seventh in the world.

The latest reports estimate the population at 21 million, making Lagos the largest city in Africa. Ikeja been the capital city of Lagos State, is a well planned, clean and quiet residential and commercial town with shopping malls, pharmacies, government reservation areas and Murtala Mohammed International Airport. It now boasts a shopping mall, Ikeja City Mall, which is the largest mall in the Mainland of Lagos State. Some suburbs include Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry, and more local councils have recently been created, bringing the total number of local governments in Lagos to 57 (This includes Local Community Development Areas or LCDAs).

Today, Lagos has emerged as a major hub for the headquarters of national and global companies and the complex business and professional services in diverse industries such as: consulting, manufacturiing, construction, oil and gas, agriculture, telecom, markteting, legal, health etc. The city of Lagos occupies an area of 3,577 sq km. 22% or 787sq. km of which consists of

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3 Founded: May 27, 1967 3 Area: 1,381 mi² 3 ISO 3166 code: ISO 3166-2:NG 3 Population (2006 census) • Metropolis 8,048,430 • Estimate (2012 by LASG) 16,060,303 3 Points of interest: Lagos Island, Victoria Island and much more..

3 Lagos Metropolitan Area: Ìlú Èkó (Yoruba) 3 Nickname(s): ""Eko akete"" Lasgidi 3 Motto: Èkó ò ní bàjé o!

lagoons and creeks, such as Lagos Island, fringing the southwest mouth of Lagos Lagoon while protected from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier islands and long sand spits such as Bar Beach, which stretch up to 100 kilometres (62 miles) east and west of the mouth.

January 26th, 2017, Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode made history when he disbursed about N1 billion to 705 beneficiaries of the Pilot Scheme of the N25 billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF), an initiative of his administration to drive the growth of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The partners include Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), which verified all the applications and auditted the processes, Fate Foundation, LEAP Africa, Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBJZ), National Automobile Technicians Association (NATA) and Cooperative Societies, which provided applicants for the pilot scheme through their membership.

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LAGOS is my Success Story LAND OF BUSINESS

50 YEARS

...AND STILL COUNTING

Jean Jadas

Corporate Profile

NIGERIA

Jean Jadas, General Manager, ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel

Track Record as Hotel Manager Over 25 years ago, I started the hotel business in Italy from there i worked in the carribian where i became a special adviser to a Small Scale Food & Beverages company and during my position we were able to open over 2,000 outlets. I got a job in Sheraton in the pacific and i have also worked in Cuba always as a general manager including hotels in Africa and finally came to Nigeria. Currently, i have 3 years experience for hotel management in Nigeria.

When i came here to manage the ibis hotel, i did some orientation with the team at the hotel so they can establish a good customer relationship by listening to the guests requests and observations about the hotel. Any observations from the guests whether it is a negative one, we usually try to resolve it. When you come to Ibis and you have a bad experience with us we make sure we resolve the issues so that the next guests will never experience it. We have already developed a system where we analyze all the guests comments about our hotel and we try as much as possible to resolve any issues and complains from our guests.

As the general manager, I do my own work very early in the morning before the business commence. During the day, i usually engage my teams to get use to our activities and to know what should be done at the right time. If you really want to be successful in this hotel business, it is important to know your responsibility and do it the right time.

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Ibis Lagos Ikeja New Action Plan for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Community

In 2017, ibis hotel will embark on doing some new things in the local communities by providing foods for the less privilege (orphanage homes). Jean Jadas, General Manager, ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel, commented: "We will be going at the orphanage homes to cook for them, giving them good food. And, we will also provide soaps for them with the aim of improving the quality of life in that community" He said, "We also organize events on various innovative platforms as part of our corporate social responsibility and we invite schools around us to come for the event.

This kind of event is organized at all Ibis hotels worldwide" "As part of our CSR at Ibis, we usually use some part of our savings, send some part of the money to our group to plant trees.

At Ibis Lagos Ikeja, we planted One Hundred and Seventeen Trees last year but our group planted two tress each around the environments where it operates" - he added According to him, ibis hotel will soon execute some projects in the Northern part of Nigeria where there are problems. We are on the process of finalizing the structures of the projects as this will contribute a lot to the economic well being of the people living in the communities.

We plan to build bore holes for water, plant trees and provide other social amenities for the communities in the Northern region.

He also said, "We are also doing some environmental cleanup in the communities we are operating in.

We are also planting trees and flowers around the environment and all our hotels in our group are also doing this kind of initiative.

"Nigeria is a country of serious minded and smart people. You will know when to got out so you won't meet the traffic in the road and if you know exactly when to go out, life will be very easy for you here in Nigeria. Though Nigeria is a country with a lot of challenges but i strongly believe the economy situation will soon go back to normal, he added" "I have been in Lagos for some years now without any threat towards me and Lagos is a business city where you will see lots of opportunities. Lagos is known to be the most lively city in Africa.

"Nigerian people are good but what i found out about Nigeria is that the country has a bad reputation outside so the Government should try and clear the bad reputation of Nigeria abroad.

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IBIS LAGOS IKEJA

IBIS PRODUCT

Discover Ibis Gymnastics Centre Ibis Gymnastics is a sport that gives its guests balance, strength, flexibility, agility, endurance and control. The gymnastics centre contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, chest and abdominal muscle groups. Alertness, precision, daring, self-confidence and self-discipline are mental traits that can also be developed through gymnastics. The gym facilities at ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel provides opportunities for all its guest to get physical fitness through several training exercises.

Key Facts About Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel

Hotel classification: 3 star hotel

Hotel location: In the centre of town

Main point of interest: MURTALA MOHAMED INT AIRPORT (8.40 km)

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Number of rooms: 165

Bathroom fittings

100% non-smoking hotel

Shower Hair dryer in bathroom

Room fittings 220/240 V AC Air conditioning Safe deposit box in room Telephone FREE WIFI Full-length mirror Operator wake up call

Check-in:12:00 Check-out:12:00 (except where other special terms apply)

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IBIS PRODUCT

Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel Well Positioned to Host Business Meeting and World Class Events Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel conference hall is the ideal place to host your events and meetings for both business, press conference, forum, workshop and seminars. ibis Lagos offers a convenient city centre location and a superb range of accommodation, leisure and meeting facilities. Accommodating up to 330 delegates in a variety of function layouts, the hotel’s five conference halls are modern, flexible and well presented.

The hotel can cater to a variety of event styles, from banquets and boardroom meetings, to seminars, presentations, company training sessions, cocktail functions and product launches. One of the conference hall is the hotel’s largest event space, accommodating up to 300 guests in classroom style.

Modern and stylish, the other conference hall at Ibis Lagos Ikeja are spacious, wellappointed and comfortable, offering the perfect place to relax after a day spent exploring Lagos or meeting with colleagues. Guests can also enjoy the all

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-you-can-eat breakfast buffet, dinner at the hotel, and drinks at the Bar and Café.

Situated in the capital city of Lagos state, the hotel offers guests easy accessibility to Ikeja City Mall, Shoprite, Silverbird Cinemas, Government officies and institutions and entertainment centres, with high level security both within walking distance and around the environment. Halausa and Nigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission are also within easy reach, as it is located within the Ikeja environs.

Ibis Lagos features a convenient, versatile event space and a contemporary restaurant and bar, ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel and Apartments is ideally placed to host a wide range of Lagos meetings, conferences and events. The hotel’s five function rooms are modern and well-presented.

Fresh, contemporary and stylish, the fully refurbished new-look ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel offers a wide range of accommodation options, including comfortable guest rooms and spacious one and two bedroom apartments. The hotel also features a lively restaurant, open for breakfast and dinner, and a great bar, offering a place to relax with a drink after work, watch sports.

Given its superb central location, ibis Lagos Ikeja is the ideal base from which to explore the city of Lagos. The hotel is just a few minutes distance to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport.

The conference hall are both perfectly suited to hosting all kinds of events. Guests attending a meeting or event at the hotel can enjoy warm, personalised service, modern facilities and Wi-Fi access.

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IBIS PRODUCT

Ibis Buffet Restaurants, warmly designed and decorated to international standard Ibis Restaurants is warmly designed and decorated, newly remodelled ibis Kitchen offers a stylish, contemporary twist on the usual hotel restaurant experience for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Savour fresh, locally sourced, seasonal cuisine in the chic, 80-seat dining room or meet friends or co-workers for cocktails and appetisers in the trendy bar area.

At ibis Lagos Ikeja, the staff are very helpful & friendly and an amazing hotel with a good atmosphere and comfortable environment. Great service too. Located accross the road within Ikeja environs Where you find a vast array of Retail and shops available, commercial banks is in front of the hotel, with access to its network is easy and affordable. The management of ibis hotel understand how important great food, friendly service and a relaxing atmosphere are to any successful trip and they have made it easy to provide a superb restaurant in the hotel.

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Looking for a casual meeting place for lunch, dinner or cocktails? The ibis Restaurant serves coffee and a wide selection of bottled and tap beers, wines, mixed drinks and bar snacks. An outdoor heated terrace is also available.

The ibis Buffet Restaurant has performed very well over the past five years. After experiencing steady growth in clients patronage, the restaurant has enjoyed a long-term trend of steady growth.

Finding a good quality dining option at Ikeja shouldn't be difficult! That's why ibis Kitchen Restaurant has introduced a new menu designed to cater for all types of travellers. You’ll enjoy great dining and entertainment just steps from your room at the ibis Restaurant! ?

Daily All You Can Eat Breakfast Buffet ?

Express Lunches and A La Carte Dinner ?

Fresh, Locally Sourced Ingredients

In spite of rising consumer incomes, declining unemployment and an overall uptick in the financial well-being of the nation's economy, consumers have chosen to curtail their spending for ibis buffetstyle restaurants. Health-conscious dietary trends, coupled with a stark rise in competition stemming from fast-casual restaurants, as well as consumers developing a more consistent interest in restaurants touting high-quality ingredients, have all contributed to the hotel's growth.

IBIS Buffet Restaurants can be used to for netwroking launch and cocktail events. www.egbin-power.com Major companies and event organizer has used ibis restaurant to host netwroking launch for their events and press conferences.

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IBIS PRODUCT

Enjoy 165 air-conditioned rooms at ibis Lagos Ikeja hotel - an ideal place for business travellers The ibis Lagoso Ikeja hotel offers affordable accommodation with its 165 air-conditioned comfortable rooms. The hotel is ideal for business travellers as all guests have access to free WIFI, a selfservice business center and 4 conference rooms available for professional events or meetings. The hotel is located 10 minutes away from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The hotel offers guests access to a gym, outdoor pool, 2 bars and a restaurant which offers all-youcan-eat buffet breakfast.

Room with 1 double bed equipped with the new bedding Equipped with the new Sweet Bed by ibis bedding, the new ibis room offers the ultimate in comfort: large double bed, desk, internet, parquet flooring, LCD flat screen TV with all the best channels and a bathroom with shower or bathtub.

Over 2,000 ibis, ibis Styles and ibis budget hotels are installing new bedding.

Welcome to the cosiest comfort by ibis.

High-tech sprung mattresses and bed bases

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that align with the density points of the body. With big fluffy pillows and supersoft duvets. The rooms are ideal for families or friends, solo or duet, business woman or business man.

At the hotel, you can choose your designer colours and a good mood on every floor!

Each ibis Styles has pop, pep and personality. And the price is always inclusive.

The ibis breakfast is an 'all-you-can-eat buffet' served between 6.30 and 10 am, combining all the elements of a traditional continental breakfast. Wherever you are in the world, you'll find ibis breakfasts also include local specialties for you to enjoy.

All units provide guests with air conditioning. They offer a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a minibar and coffee machine. Private bathrooms also come with a shower. Buffet breakfast is served each morning at Ibis Lagos Ikeja.

Guests can enjoy local and international cuisine at the onsite restaurant. A range of drinks is provided at the bar.

At Ibis Lagos Ikeja guests will find a 24hour front desk. Murtala Mohammed International Airport is 10 km from the property.Couples particularly like the location — they rated it 8 for a two-person trip.

This property is also rated for the best value in Ikeja! Guests are getting more for their money when compared to other properties in this city. All 165 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers. Other amenities are available to guests include 24-hour room service, minibars, and premium bedding.

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'Nigeria is a country of serious minded and smart people. I have been in Lagos for some years now without any threat towards me and I feel safer to be in Lagos as i usually go out at night, walk alone and there hasn't been a threat to me since all these while' - Jean Jadas Jean Jadas is the Managing Director of Ibis Lagos Ikeja, one of the most successful hotel in Nigeria with over 4300 branches worldwide. In this exclusive interview with Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal, Oil and Gas Republic's journalist during a media chat at Ibis hotel located in Ikeja, capital city of Lagos State. Jean takes us through Ibis activities and challenges currently facing the Nigerian Hospitality Industry.

OGR: With your experience in the Nigerian hotel business, how has the journey been so far?

and currently managing IBIS Hotel in Nigeria.

Aside from Africa, i have also managed hotels in Panama, Columbia, Cuba and many more.

Nigeria and we found out that two of our buildings aren't kept to standard because we don't have an expert as our maintenance team that knows the work very well. So it took me JEAN: I will begin with the Nigerian economy OGR: How do you see the Nigerian over a year to build a good maintenance team situation as we all know about the downtime hospitality industry comparing it with other that will also train other upcoming team as we facing the economy which has negatively countries where you have managed an hotel? don't wait to see any faults on our facilities such affected many businesses and this has made as the Air Conditions (AC) and others, we do JEAN: Nigeria is a big country but when it maintenance regularly to avoid any downtime some businesses leave the country. comes to the hotel business, it is very difficult. issues.

In our case, we are prepared in this economy We need a specialized school in Nigeria for recession because in every situation there is hospitality training. The staffs we employ here OGR: In your previous comments, you always a positive start. At Ibis Lagos Ikeja at Ibis are from a different career background, mentioned energy cost as part of the Hotel, when we saw this economy recession they don't have the basic training in hospitality. challenge facing your hotel, what has been happening last year we positioned our products A big country like Nigeria should establish a the role of the government in this issue? to cope with the economy and we stayed focus specialized school for hospitality training. We in order to get along with the economy. had a general meeting for all our hotels in Africa JEAN: Well, i don't do politics so i don't have Customers are looking for quality service price and i was able to attend the meeting but looking much to say about it. Looking at some of the and we gave our guest options for a quality and at the management, we don't have the leader advance countries, they use solar energy as an affordable service price. The price of the with a vast experience as other hotels. In alternative way of generating power and i think business is better but what is affecting us like advance countries, you will see a qualified staff is high time Nigeria should also look into using everybody is the cost of commodities just as the working in an hotel that has gone through an solar as an alternative method of power price of diesel is very expensive now. In hospitality training before employed to work in generation to the country.

January 2016, we bought diesel for One the hotel. Lack of hospitality training has been Hundred and Nineteen Naira Only (N119) but affecting our services at Ibis Hotel in Africa.

OGR: In your own view, do you think the today, we are buying diesel at the rate of Two Nigerian hospitality industry have come of Hundred and Thirty Naira Only (N230). The Another challenge we are facing here is Energy age? price is really affecting us as we cannot reset all (Power Supply). At Ibis Lagos Ikeja, we spend a our price lists such as food, guest rooms etc... lot of hours using generators but in other JEAN: No, you have a city of 20 million countries is less. We have two generators here people and you look at how many international OGR: how long have you been a manager and we usually use one of the generators to hotels can be seen here. The big hotels here are and years of experience in the hotel backup the first one but sometimes it works Sheraton Four Points Hotel, Oriental, Protea, business? more than 24 hours and the cost of energy in Ibis, Radisson, Intercontinental and many Nigeria is very high. more. A city of 20 million people shouldn't have JEAN: I have been in the hospitality industry 10 surrounding hotels as compared to other city for over 25 years with many years of experience One other challenge we face here is of 10 million people where you find few hotels. in managing hotels in the world. In Africa, i maintenance, we hardly get a good So there are still a lot to do and even some five have managed hotels in countries like Morocco, maintenance team. We do night construction in star hotels here doesn't deliver 5 star services.

Kenya, Senegal, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana

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INTERVIEW

Egbin Power Plc Media Tour

As part of our CSR at Ibis, we usually use some part of our savings, send some part of the money to our group to plant trees. At Ibis Lagos Ikeja, we planted One Hundred and Seventeen Trees last year but our group planted two tress each around the environments where it operates.

OGR: What do you think should be done to resolve these challenges?

JEAN: First of all, we need to reduce the cost of energy by diversifying into alternative energy.

Secondly, we need to have a school that is specialized in hospitality training and you can barely find an hotel staff in Nigeria that speaks foreign languages. In Nigeria, the hotel staff speaks Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and English fluently but for us, we speak German, French, Spanish. In today's hotel business here in Nigeria, a staff will be employed as a waiter unfortunately these staff do not have a good knowledge of the job because they didn't have hospitality training.

Another issues we face here, some staffs will be employed in the hotel not knowing that they have their own personal ambition for the job.

That is to say, they are working in the hotel in order to save money to go back to school as they aren't taking the hotel job as a profession that has a long-term opportunity. In the hotel business, you can start your career as a waiter and later on you will become a general manager.

OGR: What has been your secret of making Ibis Lagos Ikeja the most successful hotels in Lagos?

JEAN: When i came here to manage Ibis hotel, I provided an orientation training to my team in making sure they establish a good customer relationship by listening to the guests comments and observations about the hotel.

Any observations from the guests whether it is a negative one, we usually try to resolve it. If you come to Ibis and you have a bad experience with us we make sure we resolve the issues so that the next guests will never experience it. We have already developed a system where we analyze all the guests comments about our hotel and we work strictly in the bad comments to making sure we resolve the issues and complains.

At Ibis, we do a lot of training to our staffs as this is a key factor for us. We train our staffs regularly to meet up to international standard as you know the best marketing is the word of mouth.

OGR: How can you rate your hotel business experience in Nigeria?

JEAN: Currently, i have 3 years experience for hotel business in Nigeria. Based on my experience in managing hotels in other countries, Nigerian staffs are difficult to manage because they don't have the basic training in the hospitality industry unlike other advance countries. The staffs here have little knowledge of guest orientation. In hotel business, there are lots of work that is needed to be done by the staffs and as for me, i do my own work very early in the morning before the

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Jean Jadas, Managing Director of Ibis Lagos Ikeja

business commence. During the day, i usually engage my teams to get use to our activities and to know what should be done accurately. If you really want to be successful in this hotel business, it is important to know your responsibility and do it the right time.

OGR: How many percentage of your staffs are Nigerians?

JEAN: I would say 99% of our staffs at Ibis Lagos Ikeja are Nigerians.

OGR: What has been the contribution of Ibis to Lagos state economy?

JEAN: Firstly, we pay a lot of tax and as one of the most successful hotels in Lagos, we have created lots of jobs. As you know, a business that is doing well will definitely create opportunities for job seekers and that is exactly what we are contributing to the economy of Lagos state. Ibis has over 4,000 hotels worldwide.

We are also doing some environmental cleanup in the communities around us. Recently, we did some environmental cleanup in Allen avenue, Ikeja by constructing a drainage system with the aim of keeping the environment clean.

We are also planting trees and flowers around the environment around us and all our hotels in our group are also doing this kind of initiative.

OGR: Please can you list some of the things you will be doing in 2017?

JEAN: This year, we will be doing some new things in the local communities by providing foods for the less privileged (orphanage homes). We will be going at the orphanage homes to cook for them, giving them good food.

And, we will also provide soaps for them with the aim of improving the quality of life in that community .

We also organize events on various innovative platforms as part of our corporate social responsibility and we invite schools around us to come for the event. This kind of event is organized at all Ibis hotels worldwide.

But i have developed a new action plan to execute some projects in the Northern part of Nigeria where there are problems. We are on the process of finalizing the structures of the projects as this will contribute a lot to the economic well being of the people living in the communities. We plan to build bore holes for water, plant trees and provide other social amenities for the communities in the Northern region.

OGR: We would like to know, what are your relationship with other hoteliers?

JEAN: We have a very good relationship with other hotels and we don't do competition with them as we already have our own standard so likewise they have their own standard. Most times, every 3 months we usually have a roundtable discussion and launch with other hotel managers to discussing major issues affecting the industry and bringing innovative ideas to tackle the challenges.

OGR: What can you say about Nigerian foods?

JEAN: I don't really eat Nigerian foods as we all have our own limits and choice of food but we do have a lot of Nigerian foods here.

OGR: Currently, how many rooms are in Ibis Lagos Ikeja?

JEAN: We have 165 rooms in the hotel and all the rooms are fully equiped to international standard.

OGR: Have any client used your hotel to organize oil and gas events?

JEAN: Yes, Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel has been used to host lots of oil and gas events such as press conference, summit, forum and meetings.

We have up to 5 conference halls in the hotel and one of the conference hall will contain up to 330 people. Our hotel has been used to host "Business Women of Nigeria".

OGR: How many awards have Ibis Hotel won?

JEAN: We have won several awards as one of the "Best Hotel in Guest Satisfaction" and we have also won an award on keeping on a good Hygiene etc... We will be moving from the bronze level of hospitality ranking to Silver level based on our excellent and outstanding services in the hotel business.

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'Nigeria is a country of serious minded and smart people. I have been in Lagos for some years now without any threat towards me and I feel saver to be in Lagos as i usually go out at night, walk alone and there hasn't been a threat to me since all these while' - Jean Jadas - Cont.

In terms of waste management, we have created a different approach on this by creating several waste bin for each waste products. For instance, we have a different waste bin for plastics, irons, bottles and much more... We don't put all our waste in one place.

OGR: What message do you have for other hotel owners in Nigeria?

JEAN: My advise for hotel owners is for them to keep aside profit and run the business as a profession. And if they want to be very successful in this hotel business, they should understand that hotel business isn't all about the big buildings but its about the day to day activities and quality of service but unfortunately some hotels here doesn't have these standards in terms of quality of service.

Hotels that doesn't have a good quality of service will suffer in this kind of economy recession currently in Nigeria when it comes to price of commodities.

At Ibis, we make sure we maintain our best price on a discounted rates because the more you give discounts on your prices, you will definitely get more sales.

In hotel business, the incomes are categorized in three parts namely: First part of your income should be allocated for tax and salary payment.

Second part of your income will be your profit and while the other Third part should be allocated for maintenance and renovations of your hotel infrastructure.

If there are no budgets for maintenance of your hotel infrastructures within some couple of years your hotel will lose its value. The bathrooms, rooms and facilities will not be in a proper standard.

General Manager, ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel, Oil and Gas Republic Journalist, Micheal Obineme spotted putting on a white & black shirt.

OGR: Please can you give us a brief about your life experience in the hotel business?

JEAN: A long years ago, I started the hotel business in Italy from there i worked in the caribbean where i became a special adviser to a Small Scale Food & Beverages company and during my position we were able to open over 2,000 outlets for food & beverages. I got a job in Sheraton in the pacific and i have also worked in Cuba always as a general manager including hotels in Africa and finally came to Nigeria.

In terms of the hotel service price, they should provide various price options for their customers with a quality service based on the prices available. "If you offer quality services to your customers, they will come back to your hotel"

JEAN: We have clients from Shell, Total, Technip, Exxonmobil and much more...

The hotel owners shouldn't combines their personal account to the hotel business account.

OGR: In one word, how has the journey been so far at Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel?

OGR: What other thing do you think is lacking in the Nigerian hospitality industry?

JEAN: As the General Manager here at Ibis, it has given me the opportunity to learn new things on the daily activities of the business.

Everyday is different, you don't know who will be the next guest and what will be their need.

JEAN: We are importing many things here in Nigeria. For example, if we have any problem in our generator sometimes the part aren't here so we have to import. Food items are also imported here. If you want a good meat, you have to import it. We don't produce locally.

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O G R : D o y o u h a v e c l i e n t s f ro m International Oil Companies?

JEAN: Nigeria is a country of serious minded and smart people. You will know when to go out so you won't meet the traffic in the road and if you know exactly when to go out, life will be very easy for you here in Nigeria. Though Nigeria is a country with a lot of challenges but i strongly believe the economy situation will soon go back to normal.

I have been in Lagos for some years now without any threat towards me and Lagos is a business city where you will see lots of opportunities. Lagos is known to be the most lively city in Africa.

Nigerian people are good but what i found out about Nigeria is that the country has a bad reputation outside so the Government should try and clear the bad reputation of Nigeria abroad.

I feel saver to be in Lagos and i usually go out at night, walk alone and there hasn't been a threat to me since all these while.

I have traveled to Abuja, Illorin and Port Harcourt and i don't see any threats to my life, Nigeria is a good country.

OGR: Please can you tell us some of the interesting things you like about Nigeria?

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Ibis Hotels commences environmental campaign by running tree planting drives worldwide Accor Hotels, whose brands include Ibis, has been planting trees since 2008 with the objective to plant 10 million trees in 2021.

The group respect host communities, care for the most vulnerable, protect local ecosystems, foster sustainable social and economic development, and support communities, wherever its hotels are located.

The money saved is directed to the group's Plant for the Planet Program and so far three million new trees planted worldwide – around 1,500 a day. Based on the research and development done on the environmental impact of its business in 2011, it found that 86% of hotel water consumption came from the effects of food consumed by guests.

Its response was to make an existing international tree planting scheme more local, encouraging hotels to form partnerships with nearby farms and Planting Trees contribute to the environment by providing oxygen, communities. i m p r o v i n g a i r q u a l i t y, c l i m a t e Plant for the Planet is part of the group's a m e l i o r a t i o n , c o n s e r v i n g w a t e r, Planet 21 sustainability strategy which preserving soil, and supporting wildlife. concentrates on reducing emissions, During the process of photosynthesis, trees energy, water, pollution and waste. The take in carbon dioxide and produce the scheme is thought to be unique to the oxygen we breathe. hospitality sector.

Trees also help to reduce ozone levels in urban areas. Most importantly, trees sequester carbon, helping to remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the air, which cools the earth. In fact, a mature canopy tree absorbs enough carbon and releases enough oxygen to sustain human beings!

Ibis Hotel wins Prestigious Hospitality Industry Awards Ibis is an international hotel company owned by AccorHotels, a hotel holding company.The ibis brands are part of AccorHotels. The hotels are generally close to city centres, airports or railway stations, and offer low rates compared to many global hotel groups of comparable size.

Recently ibis hotels won Gold in Best International Economy Hotel Brand and

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Silver for Best UK Economy Hotel Brand.

The British Travel Awards are some of the most prestigious within the travel and tourism industry and with over a million people voting are the largest consumer voted awards programme across any industry. ibis hotels, AccorHotels’economy brand, was awarded Silver for Best International Economy Hotel Brand, and Bronze for

Best UK Economy Hotel Brand. ibis Styles has also received the award for Best Marketing campaign for a hotel brand at the 16th edition of the Worldwide Hospitality Awards.

AccorHotels is one of the most triumphant hotel groups when it comes to hospitality services which has also won several industry awards for the group.

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ibis brand Making Headway in the Hospitality Industry with Over 4300 Hotels Worldwide AccorHotels is the story of two friends, Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson, who opened their first Novotel in 1967 at a time when no one in France yet believed in this new hotel business model. Through their creativity and boldness, they pushed the boundaries of what is possible ever further. Today their dream of hospitality has become AccorHotels.

A wind of conquest still blows over its Group which brings together over 4,100 addresses in 95 countries. Proud heirs of the co-founders' vision, everyday its 250,000 talented people continue to invent the hospitality of tomorrow and bring to life their passion for the guest.

Today, AccorHotels is a world-leading travel & lifestyle group and digital innovator offering unique experiences in more than 4,000 hotels, resorts and residences, as well as in over 2,500 of the finest private homes around the

globe. Benefiting from dual expertise as an investor and operator through its HotelServices and HotelInvest divisions, Its portfolio comprises internationally acclaimed luxury brands including Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel Legend, SO Sofitel, Sofitel, onefinestay, MGallery by Sofitel, Pullman, and Swissôtel; as well as the popular midscale and boutique brands of Novotel, Mercure, Mama Shelter and Adagio; the in-demand economy brands including ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget and the regional brands Grand Mercure, The Sebel and hotelF1.

With an unmatched collection of brands and rich history spanning close to five decades, AccorHotels, along with its global team of more than 240,000 dedicated women and men, has a purposeful and heartfelt mission:

to make every guest Feel Welcome. Guests enjoy access to one of the world’s most rewarding hotel loyalty programs - Le Club AccorHotels.

AccorHotels is active in its local communities and committed to sustainable development and solidarity through PLANET 21, a comprehensive program that brings together employees, guests and partners to drive sustainable growth.

Ibis Environmental Cleanup Campaign in Ikeja Proves Popular in Lagos all ibis hotels, with its employees, customers and partners, they are working to reinvent the hotel industry, sustainable.

ibis Hotel has strengthened the company's commitment to sustainable development by opting for ISO14001 international environmental certification. As the first economy hotel chain to receive ISO14001 certification. ibis is committed to offer its guest a hotel service that continually reduces its envronmental impact. ibis Lagos Ikeja Hoetl has been consistently doing an envronmental cleanup within the Ikeja environs which has made the hotel popular in Lagos.

ibis hotel has been committed to various causes for many years and has never stopped pushing boundaries. With the Planet 21 programme, the group has set ambitious goals for 2020, based on four strategic priorities: Working closely with employees, getting guests involved, innovating with partners, taking action in local communities; and on two key issues: sustainable food and buildings. Through the tree planting campaign, Lagos State will be in the forefront of efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.

ibis hotel strongly believe that 'Environmental Sustainability' involves making decisions and taking actions that are in the interest of protecting the natural World with particular emphasis on preserving the capability of the environment to support human life.

To further sustain the environment, ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel has reinstated their commitment to embarking on effective environmental cleanup exercise as the initiative would transform the environment where it operate into a cleaner and more beautiful one.

According to the General Manager of ibis Lagos Ikeja, the hotel has been doing an environmental cleanup program within the areas where it operates by constructing dranages and planting beautiful flowers around the environment. ibis hotel is the most popular hotel in Ikeja, Lagos State.

The group has highlighted Health, nature, carbon, innovation, local development, employment and dialog as a major priority to help the world run a little more smoothly. In

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Snapshot of Oil and Gas Republic Journalists at Solar Future Nigeria 2017 held in Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos - Nigeria

OIL AND GAS REPUBLIC MEDIA COVERAGE AT SFN 2017

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Snapshot of Oil and Gas Republic Journalists at Solar Future Nigeria 2017 held in Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos - Nigeria

OIL AND GAS REPUBLIC MEDIA COVERAGE AT SFN 2017

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SUCCESS STORY

IBIS LAGOS IKEJA HOTEL

Flintxposures host WAPS Press Conference at Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel framework (financing options, regulatory instruments etc.), large and small scale projects are doable.

West Africa Power Summit (WAPS) has grown diversely, since its inception to meet the growing needs of the Nigerian power market from offering brand exposure and exhibition services to creating platforms that bring together market leaders regulators and policy makers to establish more profitable and business friendly industries. The event provide the means of promoting brands with innovative products that will help improve the industry.

Nigerian Indigenous Company, Flintxposures has used Ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel to host West Africa Power Summit 2016 (WAPS) Press Conference inviting journalists from all media organization to cover the event. The West Africa Power Summit (WAPS) is organised by Flintxposures Limited, a Nigerian indigenous event management company, based in Lagos.

Flintxposures focuses on creating platforms that connect leaders, investors and policy makers to maximise every viable opportunity in their specific industries through organized high level summits. The summits are tailored towards economic development and enhancing returns on investments.

WAPS summit has been bringing together governments, private investors, and businesses, senior decision makers from utilities, large power users, consultants, contractors and citizens to work together, with the aim of placing the region on a sustainable and prosperous path, by removing obstacles that stand in the way of opportunities and delegates will benefit from the various highly relevant, regionally focused presentations, panel discussions, Q&A sessions. It provides a great opportunity to network with policy makers, thought leaders and global investors and to gain valuable insight into the latest market developments.

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Flintxposures, Managing Director, Oti Ukpai commented “Our mission for organizing WAPS is to bring industry experts that will provide the right information at the conference and to engage the audience on the latest projects and technological solutions that will add value to the industry" The West Africa Power Summit is enjoying overwhelming support from the industry with the global networking partners and media firms such as, Power for all, CREN, NERC, Ventures Africa, Pulse NG, Orient Energy Review, Energy Institute etc...

The WAPS is a great platform to discussing “Accessing Finance for Renewable Power Projects�, and how a structured support programme can improve access to finance. WAPS is also focused on looking forward to fruitful deliberations that will showcase renewable energy potential and point to ways of harnessing these potential for the development of the West African region.

The renewable energy market in West Africa is growing fast and with a right

The event organizer, Flintxposures has a vast experience in brand positioning and advisory for effective marketing campaigns that will yield a profitable returns with an enviable team of professionals that understand the need to connect, learn & grow businesses. The company's experience and expertise translates into the ideal solution for large or small gatherings, ensuring your workshop or seminar is flawless.

About the event organizer Flintxposures is the leading Exhibition solution company with fantastic custom stand solutions, modular and system stand options, striving daily to attain the position of 1st choice exhibition company.

The company offers exhibits advisory/solutions in West African region with a collective industry experience of up to 15Years and can; Conceptualization, create and build outstanding designs that projects your brand.

Flintxposures also have an enviable clientele base that cut across various sectors of both local and international economy, with emphasis on Oil & Gas, Infrastructure, Telecommunication and many more.

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IBIS LAGOS IKEJA HOTEL

Ibis Hotel to Embark on Community Development in the Northern region of Nigeria ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel has plan to embark on community development in the Northern part of Nigeria.

Speaking with the MD of ibis Hotel in Lagos on an exclusive interview, he said, "We developed a new action plan to execute some projects in the Northern part of Nigeria where there are problems. We are on the process of finalizing the structures of the projects as this will contribute a lot to the economic well being of the people living in the communities.

We plan to build bore holes for water, plant trees and provide other social amenities for the communities in the Northern region.

The North is the breadbasket of Nigeria. A significant proportion of the food we eat down South comes from the North. The North occupies 70% of Nigeria’s land mass, giving it comparative advantage visà -vis the South in terms of agriculture, raw materials and livestock. Northern Nigeria is bigger than most African countries.

More interesting, the North is rich in mineral resources; far richer than the South. There is gold in Zamfara; uranium

in Taraba; tin-ore in Plateau; columbite in Nassarawa; iron ore in Kogi; gysium in Gombe and limestone in Sokoto among others. Hydroelectricity for the country is provided from Kainji Dam and Shiroro Gorge. There can only be the Federal Republic of Nigeria. No matter what anyone says, Nigeria is a country and a country it should remain. You don’t live

together for 50 to 100 years and not become a country. It does not matter if some of us are Muslims and some are Christians: we are all Nigerians. It does not matter if some of us speak Hausa and some speak Yoruba: we are all Nigerians.

Our diversity is our strength. That is the beauty of Nigeria. It cannot be reengineered.

Hospitality Training will Boost Hotel Business in Nigeria - Jean Jadas A stakeholder in the hospitality industry have He said, "We had a general meeting for all our called for the establishment of a specialized hotels in Africa and i was able to attend the training school for hotel business in Nigeria. meeting but looking at the management, we don't have the leader with a vast experience as Speaking at an exclusive interview with Oil other hotels. In advance countries, you will and Gas Republic Correspondent, Jean Jadas, see a staff working in an hotel that has already General Manager, ibis Lagos Ikeja Hotel, said gone through a hospitality training before Nigeria is a big country but when it comes to employed to work in the hotel. Lack of the hotel business, it is very difficult due to hospitality training has been affecting our there is a lack when it comes to the basic services at Ibis Hotel in Africa" training in hospitality. "we need to have a school that is specialized in According to him, the staffs employed at Ibis hospitality training and you can barely find a Lagos Ikeja are from a different career hotel staff in Nigeria that speaks foreign background, they don't have the basic training languages. In Nigeria, the hotel staff speaks in hospitality. A big country like Nigeria Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and English fluently but should establish a specialized school for for us, we speak German, French, Spanish. In hospitality training. today's hotel business here in Nigeria, a staff

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will be employed as a waiter unfortunately these staff do not have a good knowledge of the job because they didn't have hospitality training," he added He further explained that some of the staffs employed in the hotel have their own personal ambition for the job. They are working in the hotel in order to save money to go back to school as they aren't taking the hotel job as a profession that has a long-term opportunity.

In the hotel business, you can start your career as a waiter and later on you will become a general manager.

"At Ibis, we do a lot of training to our staffs as this is a key factor for us. We train our staffs regularly to meet up to international standard as you know the best marketing is the word of mouth," he added

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Hospitality and oil and gas industry work in synergy to ensure the sustainability of a nation’s economy - Tobi Hotels are important globally as providing the facilities for recreation and entertainment, meeting and conferences and business transmission. Hotels contribute the output of goods and related services which build wellbeing of their nations and communities.

Visitors spend the hotels and contribute the local economies directly and indirectly. When foreign visitors avail the facilities of these hotels the foreign currency is earned through the visitor's payments. Hospitality industry becomes the source of employment especially for the labors and management. Thousands of jobs are provided to locals as well as foreigners by these hotels in its different occupations.

Hotels are also an alternative source for the locals as amenities.

The importance of the hospitality industry to oil and gas companies cannot be over emphasised.

Hotels provide great atmosphere for the organisation of most highly placed oil and gas conferences, seminars and workshop. In Lagos, Nigeria, for example, top notch facilities can be found in most hotels in the city centre. Most of these hotels have also upgraded their facilities to provide a great atmosphere for the hosting of events.

Organisation is a key element in events planning. Some of these big hotels together with provision of halls and instruments, mapout strategies to organise events for oil and gas companies. This is a separate department in most hotels.

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Owoyimika Tobi Timothy, Education Officer 2, Nigeria Police Force Education Unit, Nasarawa State Police Command Provision of instruments to organisers of events is also another key importance of hotels. Some of the instruments include, sound Microphones, speakers, amplifiers, speaker stands, eye catching seats, and many more.

However, the oil and gas companies have also contributed their quota to hotels, in terms of

payment of bills, ensuring standards are sustained by these hotels.

Overall, the two industries work in synergy to ensure the sustainability of a nation economic standards, helping to create a good atmosphere in the country.

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How AccorHotels can meet your business needs in 2017 and beyond AccorHotels, is a French multinational hotel group, part of the CAC 40 index, which operates in 95 countries. Headquartered in Paris, France, the group owns, operates and franchises 3,700 hotels (spanning all inhabited continents) representing several brands, from budget and economy lodgings to five-star hotels. The Group has developed a unique know-how in boosting hotel's performance. Benefit from the expertise and support of a major Group to meet your needs.

Hotel Management AccorHotel's Development teams will help you to develop a new hotel from the ground up and also advise you on everything from site sourcing to business planning. Its Design and Technical teams work by your side during each step of your hotel project lifecycle, from planning to delivery. We give you access to our style books. Our architects’ and designers’ portfolios. Our design briefs and design & construction guidelines. And all the information you need to choose the right partners to successfully carry out your project. Architects. Designers. Contractors.

Manufacturers. Its two businesses – hotel operator and owner/investor -AccorHotels have the resources to develop your hotel projects with greater efficiency and flexibility, and enhanced profitability. Each unit, with its own expertise, represents a v a l u e - c r e a t i o n l e v e r. B y c h o o s i n g AccorHotels, you’re joining forces with the world’s leading hotel operator. With 2,300 hotels, including 1,200 subsidiaries. With the power and expertise of 50 years of experience.

Power Your Hotel To be competitive in today’s hospitality market, you need the latest generation in information technologies. AccorHotels have got them.

The IT support has a thorough and crossfunctional knowledge of the hotel industry: equipment, software, multiproducts and interfaces and a guarantee end to end IT asset management. AccorHotels Messaging System lets you create hotel email addresses. You also have access to its many applications designed to help you sell and manage your hotel.

Revenue Management AccorHotels unique multi-brand portal offers you a stronger, more powerful e-commerce presence than ever before. That means more visibility. And more sales. When it comes to revenue management, it has the experts.

AccorHotels will boost your occupancy rates.

Optimize your average room rates. Increase your hotel’s profitability. And deliver it all on demand.

The Group have five Revenue on Demand Management (RMD) solutions adapt to your budget. They help you analyze market trends.

Anticipate customer demand. And transform opportunities into real bookings.

1. RMD Discovery: An “introduction to Revenue Management” module and a selfdiagnostic to see what your current situation is.

2. RMD Solutions: A complete system of Revenue Management solutions at competitive rates: — RM solutions adapted to hotel needs: EzRMS, ARMS, ibis SMART pricing — RM solutions on market trends: STR, MKG, RateGain, Travelclick, Nor1 3. RMD Training: A Revenue Manager training and recruitment service 4. RMD Consulting: Revenue Management consulting missions tailored to your hotel 5. RMD Operating: Revenue Management daily services to optimize your hotel’s revenue

Effective Operations: AccorHotels procurement support teams negotiate contracts at the best market conditions with top quality suppliers in over 20 countries. They also offer the best possible after-sale conditions. Warranties. Customer service. With additional benefits when you use its referenced suppliers. The Group cater to your procurement needs in 100+ product and service categories. Cleaning. Standard operating items. Furniture. Laundry. Food and beverages. We also offer turnkey solutions for your recurrent purchases and projects, including renovation and construction. Today, more and more guests are concerned by sustainable energy efforts, both at home and when traveling.

Accorhotels will help you optimize your water and energy use. reduce your costs. and attract more guests to your hotel.

Corporate Social Responsibility Today’s guests are concerned about social responsibility and the environment, especially on topics like waste, food, local experience... 87% of companies make it a criterion when selecting a hotel. That’s one of the reasons why AccorHotels has adopted the Planet 21 program. It defines its sustainable development policies. Including local sourcing. Water, energy and waste management. Fight food waste and offer healthy food. Diversity. And sustainable constructions.

Planet 21 in Action is your roadmap to manage your hotel’s sustainable development performance in order to ensure continuous progress. Your hotel’s reputation will benefit from Plant for the Planet, AccorHotel's reforestation program.

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OIL AND GAS NEWS

Netherland based company, Novidon expands its business activities into the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry properties. Novidon produces drilling starch for mud companies and local markets. The products could be supplied under own brand or private label. Processes are continue monitored by Novidon’s own systems, purchasers and authorities. Novidon’s main objective is to process co-products from the agricultural industry in a sustainable way to create innovative products which are applied in different industries.

The company contributes to a better and sustainable environment.

Novidon processes only raw materials of exceptional quality and the company is also equipped with a professional laboratory, where the products are inspected and tested on an ongoing basis. Novidon has its own laboratories at its disposal to conduct research and testing. In these laboratories both the raw materials as well as the final starch products are extensively tested and monitored.

Novidon can provide any industry with tailor made products involving starch. For example the petfood industry is supplied with native starch by one of its sister companies: Duynie Ingredients.

Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal, Oil & Gas Republic Journalist and Ruud Berkers, Novidon Commercial Director in Lagos Headquatered in Netherlands, Novidon produces native potato starch and modified potato starch used for a wide variety of technical applications.

Novidon produces highly refined technical grade native Potato Starch, containing minimal protein, fat and ash. Novidon Native Potato Starch has a clear white colour, good clarity, high binding strength, long texture and a minimal tendency to foaming. The Novidon products are applied in different industries, such as: paper, drilling and mining, paper bag, labeling and wall covering industry.

Speaking on an exclusive interview with Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal, Oil and Gas Republic Journalist, Ruud Berkers, Novidon Commercial Director said, "Every company that is into drilling to oil and gas uses starch and we are a global market supplier of potato starch to the oil and gas industry" He said, Novidon factories are located in the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, UK. Novidon sells the products to lots of companies in the world including Nigeria and currently in partnership with Kareva in Germany that already have a local representative in Nigeria. The potato starch products and services are delivered worldwide by Novidon.

Drilling Starches from Novidon are based on potato starch, the most preferred raw material for drilling starches. Our products are mainly used as a fluid loss reducer in water based drilling muds for drilling and mining operations. Novidon produces drilling starch for mud companies and local markets. The products are applied in different industries, such as: paper, drilling and mining, paper bag, labeling and wall covering industry.

All our drillings starches meet and even exceed the standards, laid down in the API 13A : ISO 13500. High quality standards are used in production, trade and packing of starch for several applications and a worldwide delivery. Novidon follows the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) method, providing a firm foundation on which to build sustainable improvements to Novidon’s business processes.

Novidon offers a healthy and safe production environment that comply with relevant laws, regulations and internal procedures.

Novidon is part of Duynie Group, a company of the agro-industrial group Royal Cosun. Royal Cosun is a cooperation with 9,500 members/shareholders, more than 3,700 full time employees and an annual turnover of approximately 2 billion euros. Cosun’s ambition is to get the most out of its raw materials. Novidon has this ambition too, which is good for the environment, profitability and meets society’s demand for responsible products and production methods.

Novidon was among the exhibitors at the West African International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (WAIPEC) in Lagos Nigeria.

WAIPEC is the largest petroleum event of its kind in West-Africa.

WAIPEC is a platform that is featuring interactive technical and strategic sessions with prominent industry speakers from both the regional and international oil and gas community, providing the unique opportunity to gain insights into the industry’s entire value chain and to engage with industry professionals in West Africa and beyond.

WAIPEC is hosted by PETAN and it delivered to the needs of all stakeholders in Nigeria and through the region.

Novidon saw a lot of interest for its drilling starches which are used as fluid loss reducer in water based drilling muds and the event provided valuable information to the company in getting more knowledge in the Nigerian petroleum market.

In conclusion, Novidon is willing to provide tailor made products and services for any industry.

Potato starch is most preferred raw material for drilling starches, because of their excellent fluid loss reduction properties and high temperature resistence as well as it's high purity and excellent filter cake forming

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PETAN to host West African International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference in 2018

By Owoyimika Tobi Timothy Following the successful West African International Petroleum Exhibition Conference (WAIPEC) hosted by PETAN, 21 - 23 February 2017 in Lagos. Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) is ready to host the next edition in February 2018. Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) is an association of Nigerian Indigenous Technical Oilfield service companies in the upstream and downstream sectors of the Oil industry. The association was formed to bring together Nigerian Oil & Gas entrepreneurs to create a forum for the exchange of ideas with the major operators and policy makers.

PETAN is also known as a leading organisation that represents oilfield services and technology companies operating across upstream through to downstream projects. PETAN is a leader in the promotion of innovative

engineering and creative solutions, that help advance the petroleum industry both nationally and regionally.

Over 200 exhibiting companies, in excess of 25 technical and strategic conference sessions and more than 6,000 professional visitors will attend the WAIPEC 2018 at Eko Hotel & Suites from 21 - 23 February 2018.

WAIPEC 2018 will be focused on Collaborative Solutions, Sharing Information.

The West African International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (WAIPEC) was launched to address the needs of companies seeking to showcase their innovative solutions and new technologies, and to support the development of major new business and partnerships to benefit West Africa's petroleum economy.

WAIPEC is the only oil and gas event held in partnership with Nigeria's petroleum industry. The event organizers will draw on their global resources to ensure that the event delivers to the needs of all stakeholders in Nigeria and through the region and it will be the largest petroleum event of its kind in West Africa, as the city of Lagos welcomes thousands of key regional stakeholders - plus leading international E&P firms and partners - to develop and drive new business across the sector.

Nigeria: Proper planning key to Free Zones’ viability – Stakeholders

By Ayobami Adedinni

According to Egbin CEO, "About 400 Nigerian engineers are fully employed in the company and working in the power plant. We brought in what is called Human Capacity Investment by offering an intensive training to the engineers so that they understand, how the plant operates and how to be efficient in what we do and that we are not a government company anymore”

managerial competencies, computer proficiency and new technical knowledge trainings. These learning and development initiatives were facilitated locally, regionally and internationally.

The organization understands the need to identify, recognize, reward and keep motivating outstanding performance of staff members, and as such it has initiated programs that will identify and develop high potential staff. In addition, some quick wins have been implemented e.g.

Employee of the Month initiative to keep every staff member motivated and outstanding. Egbin Power Plc is focused on capacity and capability development and has

developed several training programs to upskill staff. Training programs were largely focused on the acquisition of basic skills required to perform work. This covered soft skills training (work productivity and management training) and Computer proficiency (focus on use of MS Office suite) in addition to the Technical training conducted in collaboration with Technical partners – KEPCO which covered classroom workshops and site visitation to KEPCO Training Institute in South Korea. Egbin has also introduced a core functional trainings based on identified skills gap of staff in addition to aggressive

Egbin has introduced a new performance management framework in order to promote a performance-driven culture within the organization. The performance cycle consists of the goal setting exercise, a mid-year review and the end of year performance review.

Efforts were made to eliminate complexities and ensure better compliance through HR Representatives, departmental meetings, email communication and circulation of quick references and relevant FAQs. Egbin has taken the responsibility of ensuring adequate learning and development which covered areas such as soft skills and

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LOCAL CONTENT

TCN Increases Transformer Capacity In Gombe, Abuja, Bornu and Lagos State Substations distribution company supplying electricity to the state capital and its environs. This necessitated an increase in transformer capacity to relieve existing transformers in the substation. The newly installed 30MVA 132/33kV power transformer which was moved to Gombe 132kV Substation from Yola Transmission Station, increased the station’s capacity from 105MVA to 135MVA. The increase in capacity positively impacted power supply to distribution load centers in Gombe and its environs.

Furthermore, TCN had also successfully installed two 66MVA 132/33kV power transformers in its Katampe and Alagbon Transmission Stations in Abuja and Lagos respectively, increasing bulk load wheeling capacity of Katampetransmission sub-station at 132kV voltage level, from 120MVA to 126MVA and Alagbon Substation capacity to312MVA on 132kV voltage level.

The transformer capacity in Damboa Transmission Substation was also increased by 40MVA with the installation of a 40MVA, 132/33kV mobile power transformer which was energizedMay 7th, 2017.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has successfully completed the installation and commissioning into service of 30MVA, 132/33kV power transformer in its Gombe State Transmission Substation on Friday, 12th May, 2017.

TCN in a statement signed by the General Manager (Public Affairs), Mrs. SeunOlagunju, noted that the installation of a 30MVA, 132/33kV power transformer was in response to the continued increase in load demand from the

The entire transformers installation processes including civil works,were carried out wholly by TCN in-house engineers. The transformers are all fully loaded and efficiently wheeling power to various distribution load centers within the country.

TCN reiterates its commitment to continue to expand its transmission capacity to ensure that it continues to stay above the generation curve while efficiently moving bulk electricity from generation companies to distribution load centers nationwide.

TCN Energize 40mva 132/33kv Mobile Power Transformer at Damboa, Bornu State As a result of the incident, bulk power transmission to Damboa and environs reduced by 60MVA. Notwithstanding the volatile nature of the area however, TCN initiated the process for procurement and installation of a 40MVA 132/33kV mobile power transformer, in an attempt to bridge the shortfall in bulk electricity transmission to distribution load centers that supply the electricity to Damboa and environs.

The statement further noted that installation works on the new mobile 40MVA 132/33kV power transformer commenced on Tuesday, 4th April, 2017 and was completed as well as energized on Sunday 7th May, 2017. The Mobile power transformer was installed inhouse by TCN engineers.

The transmission Company of Nigeria has successfully installed and energized a 40MVA 132/33kV mobile power transformer at the Damboa Transmission Substation in Bornu State, on May 7th, 2017. In a press statement signed by the GM (Public Affairs) TCN,

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Seun Olagunju, TCN said that the Damboa Substation, previously a 60MVA 132/33kV capacity transmission station with fully equipped control room and staff quarters was completely destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents on the 4th of July, 2014.

TCN noted that it recognizes the fact that every electricity customer deserves to have access to electricity, therefore it would continue to work with security agents, where necessary, to ensure that it continues to transmit bulk electricity to distribution load centers anywhere within the nation.

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Ikeja Electric calls for community support in protecting electrical equipment in Igando, Lagos State Power supply to Igando, a bustling community located in Alimosho local government area of Lagos State, South-Western Nigeria has been severely compromised, following a wave of vandalism of electrical installations belonging to Ikeja Electric plc.

The criminal activities, which has currently plunged over 6,000 households and businesses located in and aroundIgando into darkness, have largely targeted transformers where single core and up-riser cables worth millions of naira were carted away.

Head, Corporate Communications for Ikeja Electric Plc, Felix Ofulue, decried the development, noting that the increase in the vandalism of the company’s assets had become quite alarming and is depriving legitimate customers of their right to steady power supply.

“In the past two week, over 24 transformers were vandalizedin Igando, leaving our customers in total darkness and this is quite worrisome considering the discomfort and economic loss to this community.It is quite troubling and intolerable because innocent customers are suffering,” he said. Ofuluenoted that the cost of replacing the stolen assets was

huge and would take some time to restore. He further called on community leaders, youth associations and security agencies to make improved efforts to ensure that electrical assets within their communities were protected.

While explaining that the company is partnering with security agencies to track the vandals, he also encouraged vigilant members of the community to report suspected vandals to the appropriate authorities or to Ikeja Electric for prompt action.

“These vandals sometimes operate from within the community. They keep the stolen assets somewhere. They sell to someone. It is possible that one or two people may see something, so we are calling on these vigilant and patriotic members of the community to speak up, so we can nip this in the bud. Don’t forget that as a business, it is counter-productive to keep replacing assets in a particular location, spending our limited resources, when we could be expanding the network and improving supply in another”, Ofulue concluded.

He further warned that collaborators in the crime when caught would face the full extent of the law. He pointed out that Section 1(9) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act provided a stiff punishment, up to life imprisonment, for offenders who unlawfully disconnect, remove, damage, tamper or meddle with or in any way whatsoever interferes with any plant, works, cables, wire or assembly of wires designed or used for transforming or converting electricity shall be guilty of an offence.

Only recently, thirty-year-old Ahmed Umar was sentenced to six months in prison at a Lagos Magistrates’ Court, Ogudu, for vandalizing a transformer belonging to Ikeja Electric. He was alleged to have stolen a copper wire valued N100,000 from a 500KVA transformer located at Olutunfese substation, by Demurin Street in Ketu, Alapere.

Herbaco Resources Making Giant Strides in Electrical and Cable Supply in Alaba International Market computer accessories, engineering (phones, computers, TV set etc), renewable and solar energy, boutiques, commercial banks and other financial institutions, entertainment and much more... Alaba is not just a market but a business centre where you will find all kinds of products and services imported from various countries in Europe, Asia, Americas. China products such as phones, laptops, accessories are very popular in Alaba market as the country has a huge interest in the Nigerian market. If you really want to make your brand or products and services succeed in the Nigerian market you should consider to get your products down to Alaba market as it is the central place in Nigeria for all kinds business activities.

Head office located in shop F1942, Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos - Nigeria.

Herbaco Resources Nigeria Limited deals and supply all types of electrical, telecommunication, industrials and electronics products to customers nationwide. Herbaco Resources is making giant strides and have

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grown to become the fastest growing business establishment in the Alaba market with its unrivalled warehousing for all its products.

Alaba International Market is known to be the biggest market in Nigeria spanning over 5,000 businesses from electronics, electrical, telecommunications, information techonology,

Herbaco Resources is well positioned to serve you better when it comes to the supply of all kinds of electrical, telecommunication, industrials and electronics products nationwide. The company has a consistent track record in supplying these products to various industrial companies including to energy companies across Nigeria.

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SOLAR ENERGY

Scatec Solar and partners signs 25-year Power Purchase Agreements for 400MW in Egypt Scatec Solar and partners have signed 25-year Power Purchase Agreements for delivery of electricity from six solar plants totaling 400 MW (DC) with the Government of Egypt. The signing ceremony took place in Cairo on April 13 in the presence of Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Dr. Mohamed Shaker ElMarkabi and the Ambassador of Norway Mr. Sten Arne Rosnes.

All located in Ben Ban area near Aswan in Upper Egypt, the solar plants are expected to generate about 870 GWh of solar electricity per year.

These projects are part of the 2 GW solar FiT programme launched by the Egyptian Government in 2015. The electricity produced from the 400 MW is expected to replace about 350,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year, s u p p o r t i n g E g y p t ’s e m i s s i o n reduction targets under the Paris Climate Agreement.

“With this programme the Government of Egypt is making important steps towards accessing clean and low cost electricity to drive development and economic prosperity. Scatec Solar and partners are making significant investments and long term commitment to Egypt” said Raymond Carlsen, CEO of Scatec Solar.

Total investments for the 400 MW of solar plants is estimated to USD 450 million and the plants are expected to generate annual revenues of about USD 60 million over the 25-year contract period. Scatec Solar will build, own and operate all six projects and Scatec Solar’s share of equity investments will be in the range of USD 50-70 million.

Scatec Solar is partnering with local developers and with KLP Norfund Investments for equity investments in the projects and may add additional partners to an equity consortium before financial close.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is leading a consortium of banks that is expected to support the six projects with a total debt of up to USD 350 million.

Scatec Solar is a leading developer and owner of large-scale solar plants in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Americas. With the latest addition, Scatec Solar’s project backlog consists of 1,131 MW.

Europe’s Largest Recruitment Firm, Coberon Chronos Group Extends its Recruitment Business into the Nigerian Market

Chronos Consulting has extended its recruitment, payrolling, contracting , RPO and software services into Nigeria with a fully staffed operation in Lagos. Working in partnership with Oil & Gas Republic the Group already has over 2,000 vacancies in the oil and gas sector and over 1,000 vacancies in other key sectors of the Nigerian economy. Here are a few areas in which Oil & Gas Republic and the Coberon Chronos Group are active: Oil and Gas Nigeria is the 13th largest producer of petroleum in the world according to recent report and was the world's fourth-largest exporter of LNG in 2015, and the leading oil producer in Africa.

(The country joined OPEC in 1971). Petroleum plays a large role in the Nigerian economy, accounting for 40% of GDP and 80% of Government earnings. The Niger Delta Nembe Creek Oil Field was discovered in 1973 and produces from middle Miocene deltaicsandstone-shale in an anticline structural trap at a depth of 2–4 km. Chronos Consulting and Oil & Gas Republic are experienced in offeringservices to the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

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Telecommunications Nigeria has one of the fastest growing telecommunications markets in the world, major emerging market operators (like MTN, Etisalat, Airtel, Globacom etc..) basing their largest and most profitable centres in the country. The government has recently begun expanding this infrastructure to space based communications. Nigeria has several space satellites which are monitored at the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency Headquarters in Abuja. The Chronos Group and Oil & Gas Republic have over 20 years experience in the Telecom sector and work with some of the world's largest telecom providers.

Financial Services Nigeria has a highly developed financial services sector, with a mix of local and international banks, asset management companies, brokerage houses, insurance companies and brokers, private equity funds and investment banks. Please feel free to contact either Oil & Gas Republic staff or Chronos Group staff for more information about our services in this sector.

Mining/Mineral Resources Nigeria also has a wide array of underexploited mineral resources which include natural gas, coal, bauxite, tantalite, gold, tin, iron ore,

limestone,niobium, lead and zinc. Despite huge deposits of these natural resources, the mining industry in Nigeria is still in its infancy. Chronos and Oil & Gas Republic can help you find the correct expertise and staff in Nigeria in this critical sector.

Agricultural business Agriculture used to be the principal foreign exchange earner of Nigeria. At one time, Nigeria was the world's largest exporter of groundnuts, cocoa, and palm oil and a significant producer of coconuts, citrus fruits, maize, pearl millet, cassava, yams and sugar cane. About 60% of Nigerians work in the agricultural sector, and Nigeria has vast areas of underutilized arable land. The Chronos Group and Oil & Gas Republic have over 10 year's experience in recruitment for agribusiness projects worldwide.

Other sectors It also has a manufacturing industry which includes leather and textiles (centred Kano, Abeokuta, Onitsha, and Lagos), car manufacturing (for the French car manufacturer Peugeot as well as for the English truck manufacturer Bedford, now a subsidiary of General Motors), t-shirts, plastics and processed food.

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