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Four agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sabah Skills and Technology Centre (SSTC).  Sabah Science, Technology and Innovation (KSTI) Minister, Datuk Yakub Khan said the joint venture signed was timely in the effort to train and provide the best skills to meet current needs

Hajiji has inherited this economic status quo. Sabah has been trapped in an economic rout [a black hole] for more than 30years. The golden era that Tan Sri has given Sabah evaporated soon after he left office. Years later, Tan Sri Musa was able to resurrect the economy to 8pc growth in 2017. Unfortunately, he left office in 2018

Brief history of Sabah’s energy woes. Sabah owned SESB which, to our shame, was badly managed. Power failures, brown outs and shutdowns were a daily affair, Sandakan and Tawau suffered worst. Power theft was widespread too. These have created chaos and stunted Sabah’s economic development. Businesses, especially SMEs, suffered massively. Impossible for industries. Apart from mismanagement, SESB suffered from price increases in diesel which was then its main fuel by Petronas. To stamp...

Sabahans First Policy for young Sabahans in oil/gas

ALL Sabah political leaders must join in the fight for equitable economic partnership post-MA63. Parliament has passed MA63 on 14th December 2021. Since then, Hajiji has successfully fought for Sabah  [a] a seat in the main board of Petronas which is a first ever.  [b] Sabah Gas Master Plan.  [c] Commercial Collaborative Agreement.  [d] LNG plant in SOGIT.  [e] Sales Tax on petroleum products. And quite few more in other sectors. These are significant milestones as Sabah...

I AM greatly appreciative that the KKIA management has invited SEAC and SEAC tourism committee to a meeting on 4th August 2022. The meeting has been fruitful and frank. From the KKIA management were Senior Manager, Tuan Haji Sunif Naiman, incoming senior manager/Operation Jefry Ramli, Rehan Shafiq (Commercial) and Jekeria Semat (Engineering) The followings issues were brought up and discussed in depth during the meeting

USA is fast declining. No doubt that USA has been a declining superpower for some years. It turn-tailed in Vietnam, Iraq, and worst case it surrendered and ran away from a rag-tag Taliban army after spending more than USD1 trillion, 20 years, dropping countless bombs and sacrificing many young Americans’ lives for nothing.  The photo of the last American flight out of Afghanistan with disparate people clinging on the plane on the runway is final proof of America’s sharp declinin...

CM Datuk Seri Hajiji gave specific instructions to Chief Conservator of Forest, Datuk Fred Kugan, TAS [Timber Association of Sabah] and SEAC [Sabah Economic Advisory Council] to produce a comprehensive policy recommendation for ITP [Industrial Tree Plantations] and downstream industry in early 2021.  Hajiji’s priorities were that, inter alia, the ITP should benefit Sabah’s economy and Sabahans, especially in the creation of jobs, value adds and investment conducive. Challenging ...

POORLY managed, outdated KKIA is bad for Sabah. First, allow me to inform you that the Sabah Government under our Chief Minister Hajiji, has attracted RM47.36 billion of investments between 2021 and now, many of which are being implemented already. Sabah is beginning to recover from the Covid Pandemic and is still sorting out the impacts of economic chaos from the Russian/Ukraine war. The message to you as Chairman of MAB is that Sabah can’t afford for our investors and tourists to be gree...

Very rightly,CM Datuk Seri Hajiji has been paying a lot of attention to overhaul the GLCs. He has issued several statements on GLCs, the latest of which are on 4th and 9th July 2022. His latest is showing his increasing concern. He now expects GLCs not to enter any lopsided agreements. Of the 250 GLCs, only a few can produce creditable performance. Historically, most GLCs have become drags, hindrances, not assets to our economic development. There were good under TS Harris, then went downhill. T...