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.
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Indications emerged suggesting that the crisis of confidence between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his protégé, President Goodluck Jonathan, is yet to abate as sources stated that the former leader has shunned moves for reconciliation between the two.
This is coming just as some aggrieved members have commenced moves to oust the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from office owing to series of crises within the party.
The underground moves, LEADERSHIP gathered, is aimed at easing the Adamawa born politician out of the party’s leadership owing to what the aggrieved members termed his highhanded manner in running the party.
Both President Jonathan and Obasanjo have been at loggerheads regarding how the party should be managed with the latter throwing darts in the direction of the former on how he has been managing the country.
President Jonathan retaliated by weeding out those perceived to be loyal to Obasanjo from the party’s hierarchy both at the national level and the South West zone.
The casualties of the battle of wits between the two include the former national secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and the national auditor, Alhaji Bode Mustapha.
Also, the Olusegun Oni-led zonal executive committee of the party was dissolved by the national leadership which hinged its move on an existing court order purportedly outing them from office.
The source said the development had left Obasanjo and his loyalists bruised, prompting yet another rounds of crisis within the ranks of the party, necessitating reconciliatory moves by the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur-led national executive.
Sources close to former leader told LEADERSHIP that Obasanjo has continued to shun entreaties to him by some leaders of the PDP who have continued to reach out to him to solve the lingering crisis ahead of the 2015 general elections.
The sources told our correspondent that the former leader has continued to make himself unavailable to those that the leadership of the PDP has delegated to pacify him.
World record-holder Usain Bolt will run the 100 metres at Rome’s Golden Gala on June 6. It will be the third consecutive year the six-time Olympic champion from Jamaica will run at the Stadio Olimpico, Local organisers announced on Tuesday. Rome ...
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Following the 1-0 loss that defending champion, Nigeria’s Flying Eagles suffered in the hands of Mali on Sunday at the ongoing U-20 Africa Youth Championship (AYC) in Algeria, telecommunications giant and major sponsor of Nigerian national teams,...
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The absence of Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, yesterday in Abuja stalled the hearing of the N894 million fraud charge against the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole. Okorowo, who is now a judge of the cou...
INEC is proposing a N1 million fee for registration of a new political parties in the country.
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