Telecommunications giant Globacom has won back the sponsorship right of the Nigeria Premier League. The interim chairman of the League Management Company (LMC) Nduka Irabor who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja, said the LMC has reached agre...
The Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has registered the league body as League Management Company (LMC). The chairman of the interim management committee of the league, Hon Nduka Irabo disclosed this yesterday at a media ...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said that the absence of reliable baseline information and data on the actual quantity of crude either lost through theft, bunkering or pipeline vandalisation was responsible f...
The Consumer Affairs Bureau (CAB) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) holds yet another interactive session on Friday, 22nd of March, 2013 in the confluence city of Lokoja, Kogi State.Burning issues that have bordered on ensuring a vibrant ...
The on-going power sector reform yesterday further received a boost with the German Government and European Union (EU) disclosing their readiness to commit €24.5 million to the reform exercise.
While the German government promised to support with the sum of €9 million, the EU will commit €15.5 million.
The commitment which is within the framework of the Nigerian-German Energy Support Programme (NGESP) is aimed at strenghtening Nigeria’s efforts at advancing her energy policy and regulatory environment, energy mix with focus on rural renewable electrification as well as energy efficiency and respective institutional capacity development.
The programme which is to be implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), for an initial three years beginning this year (2013) seeks to also address Nigeria’s core technical and structural challenges with regards to efficient energy delivery across the country.
In his address at the inaugural workshop for NGESP in Abuja yesterday, Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, explained that the technical support was geared at driving Nigeria’s efforts to diversify her energy mix.
According to him, “the level of renewable energy implementation in Nigeria is minimal, but being endowed with significant quantities of renewable energy sources like the sun, wind, biomass and dams for hydropower generation, Nigeria is taking various measures in implementing renewable energy/energy efficiency programmes to increase our energy mix.”
He stated that the support programme was a welcome relief which will provide a strong platform for efficient and effective take-off of renewable energy/energy efficiency programmes in the country by encouraging private sector investments in renewable energy.
In her remarks, the Country Director of GIZ, Mrs Jacobi Sambou, explianed that the programme would in a separate part support the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) in developing new courses to satisfy the needs of Nigeria’s reformed power sector to position it as a commercially sustainable training entity.
As consumers continue to grumble over the quality of Chinese products in the Nigerian markets, the Chinese Government has explained why this trend has continued unabated.The Deputy Director General of the Department of Western Asian and African Affairs...
Dr Yero, the youngest governor among governors, at 44, was sworn in on 15th December, 2012, according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, just 24 hours when his predecessor late Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa died in a Nigerian Navy hel...
Kogi state is undeniably a one party state controlled by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) since 2003 and have continued to remain so unless there is a concerted efforts by mega party to up-turn the tide in the state. So, when the PDP announced...