Titlebook: How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It; A Practical Guide to Jimoh Ibrahim,Christoph Loch,Kishore Sengupta Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 20

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Introduction: The Project Abandonment Problem,y large projects did not just “fail” but were abandoned, leaving ruins behind. Nigeria has no systematic data on what has been spent, but the sums are clearly huge—the 38 projects alone that this investigation considers in detail represent a total budget of over $25B, almost equalling Nigeria’s tota

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What We Know About the Management of Very Large Projects, and one can get them wrong in a hundred different ways. So existing frameworks contain many success variables. This study is based on this knowledge—it is unlikely that in the Nigerian context, forces are at work which have never been observed anywhere else before. But not all the influence factors

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Structure of the Investigation,people involved in each of 38 projects (19 abandoned, and 19 completed). The projects are matched by sector and size to allow comparisons, and three respondents per project reduce biases..While quantitative data allows “objective” statistical analysis, 11 of the projects were in addition described i

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Insights from the Analysis of the Questionnaires,rst compresses the 41 questionnaire variables (which contain duplication for robustness sake) into 5 success factors. Then, regressions identify which success factors drive the probability of project completion and which factors drive budget and schedule overruns (for the completed projects)..The ec

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Two Bridge Projects,od business cases. But the Second Niger Bridge became a pawn of political promises, had insufficient financial assurances and then was stalled after a government change. The Third Mainland Bridge had also been stalled and was rescued by the (military) President for idiosyncratic reasons, but then ru

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Two Power Plants,t supported the project (which had a strong value proposition) and saw it through..The second project, the Calabar Power Plant, was a part of a large highly ambitious scheme to build 11 power plants, which ran out of money as well as neglecting critical components of the network surrounding a plant