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The popular Oluwole market in Lagos Island where almost all ................... can be acquired was demolished today around 8 anti meridian. ....

Niyi Odebode and Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja

The Federal Government will next year begin a programme, which among other objectives, is aimed at developing bio-fuel as an alternative to crude oil.

The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, who disclosed this in an interview in Abuja, said that the Jatropha Value Chain Project, would not only provide an alternative to fossil fuel but also create jobs.

Mohammed stated this just as the Minister of State for Environment, Mr. Ibrahim Jibril, during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, said Jatropha had been identified by the Nigerian Bio-fuel Policy and Incentives in 2007 as the most preferred non-food plant for bio-fuel feedstock for production in the country.

On her part, Mohammed allayed fears that the project would not be sustainable, saying government would involve communities, youths and traditional rulers.

“Funding will come if we can show the revenue stream. Talking about the Green Bond, government will have to put fund for it. We intend to do it in the 2017 budget,” she added.

According to her, the Federal Government would create value chain for the plant over the next five years because the programme was part of efforts to diversify the economy.

Explaining the ministry’s programme on the plant, Jibril said the Jatropha programme would reduce dependence on fossil fuel and ensure clean environment.

He stated, “This policy as well as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s Renewable Energy Division was set out to link the agriculture and energy sectors and promote job creation, technology acquisition and also attract foreign investment in the bio-fuels industry.

“The Jatropha value chain project is being proposed as a means not only for the successful production of a viable green alternative to fossil fuels, but also for providing an additional means of livelihood for local communities that are losing ground water and vegetation every year due to desertification.”


http://punchng.com/diversification-fg-begins-bio-fuel-project-next-year/

Kakamorufu:
nA them o. see his head like grinding stone

You can also call it OLO ILO ATA in Yoruba...

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Make sure u input ur correct data cus u might be prompted to verify ur acct in future wen its accepted .......

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Femi Falana
Fisayo Falodi

The Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, has urged a rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana, to desist from what he describes as unwarranted utterances against Governor Ayodele Fayose.

He said Falana was “driving himself sick because of his personal hatred for Fayose and if care is not taking, his state of mind concerning the governor may graduate from psychology to psychosis one day.”

Olayinka, who was reacting to a comment by Falana at the maiden edition of Ekitipanupo colloquium in Lagos on Thursday, that Fayose was looting funds meant for the development of Ekiti State, said; “Falana should purge himself of his hatred for Fayose because he (Fayose) was not the one who scuttled his (Falana) ambition to become Governor of Ekiti State.”

He asked the rights lawyer to get the “anti-Fayose cataract that has blocked his eyes removed so that he can see all the developmental strides of the governor during his first term and his second tenure.”

Olayinka claimed that all the dualised roads in Ado-Ekiti, except two, were done by Fayose.

The governor’s spokesperson, who challenged Falana to make public any evidence of Fayose’s stealing of Ekiti State funds, said; “It is strange that Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, could go public with accusations of fraud against someone who has not been pronounced guilty by any court of law and the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee must take particular notice of this.”

http://punchng.com/aide-tackles-falana-comment-fayose/

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Oboy talk d koko if it involve payment.....

I don't just no y dis people steal