Minister Seeks Partnership With NLNG On National Re-orientation Campaign

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has

commended the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited for

promoting creativity through the NLNG Literature Prize and urged the

organization to extend similar gesture to the Federal Government’s

National Re-orientation Campaign, tagged ‘Change Begins with Me”, to

be launched on Thursday.

The Minister stated this in Abuja on Monday when he received the

management of the NLNG on a courtesy visit to his office.

“Of all the good things you have done, the one that struck me most has

been the Literary Prize. It speaks volumes for a company, which is

involved in gas exploration, to realize that it must also institute a

prize for the creativity industry. It is a realization that the single

most important investment you can make is the investment in human

mind.

“I believe that flowing from that, you need to also work more closely

with us in the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, especially

as you know that we are engaged in a very large-scale advocacy and

programmes that promote the creative industry especially in the area

of culture. But I think the most relevant one, for which we seek

partnership, is in our National Orientation Campaign, which we are

launching on Thursday the 8th of September,” he said.

Alhaji Mohammed explained that the ”Change Begins With Me” campaign

is anchored on attitudinal change among Nigerians.

Describing the NLNG as one of the most successful examples of Public Private

Partnership in Nigeria, he urged all relevant stakeholders and the

various arms of government to support the organization to continue to

contribute to nation-building.

The Minister also lauded the efforts of the NLNG in the promotion of

the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), which will go a long way in

reducing the reliance on kerosene, petrol and diesel, thereby

conserving the nation’s foreign exchange.

Earlier, the Managing Director of NLNG, Mr. Tony Attah, expressed

appreciation for the role played by the Minister in bringing positive

change to Nigeria.

“Honourable Minister, we appreciate your role in the Change Agenda, we

appreciate your role in carrying the entire Nigeria along in terms of

the Change Agenda through positive information because, as we say,an

informed society is a society that is most likely to move along to a

positive height,” he said.

He said the NLNG, in which Nigeria holds 49% equity, had contributed

$20 billion in revenue and $6 billion in taxes to the Nigerian economy

in the last five years.

Mr. Attah said the organization is equally playing a critical role in

technology transfer in collaboration with some universities, and it is

also intensifying efforts to develop LPG to further diversify the

energy source for the country.