Author: Olu Verheijen

DISTINGUISHED members of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce, Your Excellency the British Deputy High Commissioner, captains of industry, investors, regulators, development partners, ladies and gentlemen — good morning. We meet under a theme that captures both the challenge and the promise of our time: energy in Nigeria, from potential to reality. Nigeria has never lacked potential. We have oil. We have gas. We have sunlight, water, land, talent and scale. What we have lacked is conversion — the discipline to turn resources into results. Reserves into production. Production into revenue. Gas into power. Power into productivity. Refining into supply security.…