Day: April 22, 2023

Elected Feb 25, Died April 22, Nigerian Incoming MP’s Hope Shattered

Abibat Babalola

The Nigeria’s 10th National Assembly is bereaved evem before its inauguration. Platforms Africa reports that a newly elected member of the Parliament, Hon. Isma’ila Yushua Maihanchi, has died a few weeks to his May 29 inauguration. READ ALSO: Meter Manufacturers Seek Government Support TCN Plunges Abia Into Darkness Decade of Gas: Wabote Advocates Annual Reporting on Implementation Isma’ila Yushua Maihanchi, who was elected to represent Jalingo/Yorro/ Zing Federal Constituency Taraba State in the House of Representatives died after a brief illness.

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Meter Manufacturers Seek Government Support

Abibat Babalola

In other to boost electricity meter usage and encouraged local content driven, the Momas Electricity Meters Manufacturing Company Ltd. (MEMMCOL), has called on the Federal Government to increase its support and encouragement to indigenous meter manufacturers, to bridge the nation’s metering gap. Chairman, MEMMCOL Kola Balogun, made the appeal at the graduation ceremony of 10 youths on a five-week Printed Circuit Board (PCB) training course in Lagos. It would be recalled that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said that the country’s metering gap currently stands at over five million.…

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TCN Plunges Abia Into Darkness

ADEOLA YUSUF

Some electricity consumers in Abia State have been thrown into darkness by the Market Operator, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). This development, according to stakeholders, is regarded to as a punitive measure against the country’s newest electricity distribution company, Aba Power Limited, over payment of statutory fees to Federal Government agencies. The TCN, the country’s sole transmission firm, wrote a letter to Aba Power on April 19, 2023, with reference number TCN-MO-003-APL-049-VOL2-202, directing it to pay N869210.059.58  within 30 working days, but the same day the same company wrote…

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Decade of Gas: Wabote Advocates Annual Reporting on Implementation

ADEOLA YUSUF

…. Begins to allocate spaces to investors at NOGaPS   As Nigeria navigates the 3rd year of implementing the Decade of Gas Programme of the Federal Government, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote has advocated for action parties to provide annual status reports of the successes, issues, support required, and target completion dates. He made the recommendation at the just concluded Nigerian International Energy Summit (NIES) held at Abuja where he made separate presentations on Local Content Investment and Sustainable…

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Sudan Internal War: Why It’s Difficult To Evacuate Trapped Nigerians – Govt

Abibat Babalola

The number of Nigerian students who have indicated willingness to return to the country from war-torn Sudan has risen to 1,700, but the Federal Government may have dashed their hopes of early evacuation as fighting rages in the troubled nation. The statement read, “The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said while the Nigerian Mission in Sudan and the National Emergency Management Agency have put in place arrangements to evacuate Nigerian students and… READ ALSO: Court Jails Lecturer, Punishes Children For Flogging Orphan Delta Rainstorm kills Six As…

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Court Jails Lecturer, Punishes Children For Flogging Orphan

Abibat Babalola

A High Court sitting in the Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the Federal University, Lafia, Dr Fred Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment. Fred, who has been in the custody of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Lafia, since October 22, 2022, was convicted for assaulting a 20-year-old orphan, Blessing Mathias. READ ALSO: Delta Rainstorm kills Six As Flood Sweeps 10-Year-Old Boy Away How Female Lawyer Accused of Killing her Lawyer Husband brought in Son She had…

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