Today marks an important milestone, not only for the Ima project, but for Nigeria’s broader ambition to turn our enormous gas resources into investment, productive capacity and prosperity. Ima was discovered in 1973, more than fifty years ago. We should put that history in context. The gas market of the 1970s was very different from the one we know today. Markets were less developed, infrastructure was limited, and the technologies and commercial structures that have expanded the role of natural gas globally were still evolving.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu welcomes the $800 million Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Ima Gas Project, marking another major milestone in his administration’s drive to unlock Nigeria’s vast gas resources for investment, industrialisation, job creation and economic prosperity.

The Family of Our Sage, Agagu- Mama, YHE Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan- Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Mokgweetsi E. K. Masisi, Former President of the Republic of Botswana, Former Governor of Ogun State/Senator- Ogun East Senatorial District- Otunba Gbenga Daniel, The Chairman & members of the Board of Trustees of the Olusegun Agagu Foundation (Dr Adedeji Adeleke), our mother, Chief Mrs. Sinatu Ojikutu (the pathfinder for many of her strong-willed and independent daughters), Chief Mrs. Magaret Shonekan, Chief Mrs Nike Akande, Members of the Lagos State Executives present, AIG (Rtd) Tunji Alapini, distinguished guests.