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- Daniel Amokachi has been honoured in Germany with a restaurant named after him


- The former Super Eagles star thanked the Turkish fans who made it possible

- Amokachi played for Besiktas in Turkey and won the Turkish Cup with the side


Former Super Eagles forward Daniel Amokachi has expressed joy after Turkish fans opened a restaurant in Germany and named it after the Nigerian football legend.

Daniel Amokachi was one of the best forwards during his active playing time considering his styles of play in all the teams he played for and the Super Eagles.

The 48-year-old started his football career on the streets of Kaduna before being given the chance to join Ranchers Bees in 1989 from where he moved to Club Brugge.


Amokachi was impressive while playing for the Belgian giants as he featured in 81 games scoring 35 goals before he left in 1994.


After leaving Club Brugge, the Nigerian star moved to Premier League side Everton and played 43 games scoring 10 goals for the English club.


Daniel Amokachi moved to Turkey in 1996 where he joined Besiktas and played 77 games for the Turkish giants netting 19 goals.

He won the Turkish Cup in 1997/98 with Besiktas and also registered his name in the history books of the club as the first African to do so.

According to the information Daniel Amokachi provided, the restaurant is in Hanover and he thanked those in charge for the honour given to him.


Before he retired from football, Daniel Amokachi won the 1994 Nations Cup with Nigeria, he played 44 games for the Super Eagles netting 13 goals.



https://www.legit.ng/amp/1398500-jubilation-turkish-fans-open-restaurant-germany-super-eagles-legend.html

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja

The directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Nigeria’s deposit banks to take over the collection of revenues from the power Distribution Companies (Discos) has begun to yield positive results, THISDAY checks revealed at the weekend.

The Discos posted a record N44.5 billion revenue collection in September 2020, the highest ever recorded by the power distributors, a month after the apex bank gave the directive, it was learnt.

Before the September record, in August 2020, the month the order was given, data released by the Discos in its third-quarter summary of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), indicated that another record was posted, with the collection of just a little less than N44 billion, another record before September.

Last year, the circular signed by the CBN’s Director of Banking Supervision, Mr. Bello Hassan, stated that all electricity collections for services provided by Discos should henceforth be domiciled in deposit money banks.

“All energy and non-energy collections of Discos, whether cash or cashless shall only be performed by deposit money banks (DMBs),” the apex bank stated.

But while the argument was that the Discos were under-remitting, the Discos maintained that the invoices received from Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) for electricity supplied do not account for losses in transmission and were, therefore, taking that into consideration before remitting any funds.

With the action, the CBN hoped that that guarantor banks will take up continuous due diligence on the Discos they have guaranteed and give the monetary authority full visibility of the cash flow in the electricity supply industry.

The CBN said in the directive: “The payment or settlement of all NESI related goods or services shall be made through the Nigerian banking system. Consequently, all collections for the payments of NESI regulated goods and services provided by a Disco shall be paid into a designated account.

“This should be done such that collections arising from services rendered by the Disco shall be paid into an account in the sole name of the Disco; collections arising from services rendered by a third party/parties on behalf of the Disco shall be paid into an account in the joint name of the Disco and the third-party vendor(s).

“Any DMB found to be maintaining any account(s) for any entity collecting payments on behalf of any Disco without appropriate authorisation shall have regulatory actions imposed on it.”

Historical figures released by the Discos through their umbrella body, the Association of Electricity Distribution Companies (ANED), showed that in September 2016, the Discos only posted just over N25 billion, in September 2017, they recorded about N28 billion, the same period of 2018 was about N33 billion while for 2019, it was less than N36 billion.

While energy bill in the 12 months preceding September 2020 was N690 billion, the actual collection stood at N483 billion, with an outstanding N207 billion still being owed by various end-user customers.

Data from ANED showed that in all, the Discos posted N483 billion revenue between October 2019 and September 2020, an N17 billion increase in collection compared to the previous 12 months.

The average collection efficiency also rose to a record 76.28 per cent, for the Discos, including Ikeja, Eko, Abuja, Jos, Enugu, Benin, Kaduna, Kano, Ibadan and Port Harcourt.

The Discos, however, noted that the overall Aggregate Technical and Commercial (ATC&C) losses moving average kept increasing smoothly since February 2020 from 43.3 per cent to 46.1 per cent due to the collection crisis caused by the COVID-19 lockdown.

They noted: “The Discos are back on track on their performance improvement after the fall due to the pandemic. Indeed, in September 2020, Discos’ collection reached a new record of N44.5 billion.

“In annual terms, the Discos’ revenue collection in the last 12 months (October 2019 to September 2020) reached a new record of N483 billion, which represents an increment of N17 billion versus the previous 12 months (+3.6 per cent increment).

“Also, in Q3 2020, the collection efficiency rose to 76.28 per cent. Due to the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular during the Q2 2020, the ATC&C loss KPI (moving average) kept increasing and is now at 46. 1 per cent,” the Discos noted.

However, the electricity distributors expressed concerns that since 2015, there had been no significant improvement in the power generated and wheeled by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

According to the association, the number of registered end-users had continued to increase, currently at a rate of about 75, 000 new customers per month (+10 per cent in 2019, resulting in more than 9.7 million customers in total.

“In quarter three, the number of registered customers among the 10 private Discos passed the 9.7 million-point. However, many of them are being connected without meters and, therefore, the metering gap is close to 60 per cent, becoming one of the major challenges for Discos,” the Discos said.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/01/18/with-cbns-intervention-discos-revenue-collection-in-steady-rise/amp/

Op why na?!
This is highly uncalled for
Nigeria my country!

I guess it's cheaper and readily accessible than the pfizer and biontech vaccine's. Most countries don't mind and are eager on getting their hands on any type of vaccine as it is.

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the construction of river ports across the country is a waste of public funds as they are not viable projects.

Amaechi stated this on a television programme monitored by SHIPS & PORTS on Tuesday while answering question on why the multibillion naira Baro river port is yet to commence operation two years after its commissioning by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Minister said if the lower River Niger is not dredged, no vessel would be able to sail to Baro port.

He said, “I had this conversation with my friend, Senator Goje about the viability of the river ports that we have including Onitsha, Baro, Lokoja and Oguta river ports and I felt that it was a waste of funds.

“The reason is that for you to have those river ports functional, you must have to dredge River Niger. For now, even if you dredge, it is still 2.5 to 3 metre draft, which determines the vessel that can go there and the minimum you can have is a six-metre vessel. There is absolutely no vessel that will come in there at 2.5 to 3 metres draft.

“The idea when the Baro port was concessioned is that you pick up a cargo maybe in Warri or Port Harcourt because Lagos is too far, and put it on a barge and move it to Baro. But how many times will the barge be able to move those cargoes to Baro?

“For the man who imports through Lagos or Port Harcourt, if he puts it on a train, he arrives the same day, and there is no issue of insecurity unlike the man who has taken the cargo from Port Harcourt seaport to Baro by barge.

“They wanted the port constructed, so we completed it. My responsibility is to construct a Baro port and I have constructed it. As Minister, I did engage the public that these are the problems we will face when we finish this Baro port. First Nigeria does not produce anything in the first place so what are you going to transport? If we make the Apapa seaport very efficient, then we don’t even have enough cargo.”

The Baro river port, which was built by the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) at the princely sum of N5.8 billion, was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2019.

The President had during the commissioning said that the inland port would enhance intermodal transportation connectivity in the country, reduce pressure from big trucks off the road and create “huge employment opportunities for Nigerians, while also decongesting other busy ports”.

However, despite the economic benefits taunted by the government, port has remained dormant since commissioning.

https://shipsandports.com.ng/amaechi-tags-baro-other-river-ports-waste-of-public-funds/amp/

Some people are hell bent on blowing this issue out of proportion

Some people are hell bent on blowing this issue out of proportion

‌Tukur Muntari, Kano

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has charged new recruits to be ready to defend the country against external aggression and other security threats.


He gave the charge during the final screening for 80 regular recruits held at Falgore forest in Tudun Wada Local Government Area of Kano State.

He also charged the recruits to be prepared for a move to Sambisa Forest, a stronghold of the Boko Haram terrorist sect in Borno State.

He said those who are not disciplined and loyal to the cause are free to find their own way.


“You must make up your mind that you are ready to serve your country as a soldier and you should be ready,” he said.

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“All of you will go to Sambisa at the end of your depot training. If you are not ready to move to Sambisa and other parts of the country, and of course, our border areas to defend our country from any act of aggression, then you have not started.



“It is not yet late, if you have any doubt, then you can stand up and go. There is no room for laziness and indiscipline in the Army and no room for malingering.”

Burutai said that henceforth, the recruitment and selection would be conducted in Falgore Forest, pointing out that all recruits would be subjected to a similar process.

“This is where we will select those that will become cadets and be trained as officers as well because, at the end of all the training, the officers and soldiers will operate together under the same condition,” he said.

https://punchng.com/army-to-deploy-new-recruits-to-sambisa-says-burutai/

Can we truly ever love ourselves in this country?

NwaNimo1:
Fake news!

This kind of thing happens a lot, so I'm not surprised and i don't think it's fake news

NASTYNASOSO:
HMMMMMMMM

YOU ARE BIASED AND PAINED

WE ALL WRITE AND SPEAK ENGLISH
AS SUCH WE KNOW YOU WERE JUST OUT TO DISS DANGOTE .

Diss dangote ke, you're funny o.
Pained how?
It would have been better if you addressed my worry( because that is just what it was) about monopolism instead of attacking me and calling me biased for being concerned.
I'm not even from the region you claimed i am from.
All i want is a better Nigeria! Is that too much to ask from the likes of you who only see tribe and religion?
You just proved you know nothing!


I would really like this issue to be dropped and please do not accuse me of saying what i didn't. If you can't read and understand please don't quote me.

God bless you!

ItsTutsi:
of course you wouldn't know whether its a good or bad thing since it's a northerner doing it.. unfortunately it's not ikechukwu, it would have been the greatest thing since sliced bread

If you were able to open your dog eyes you would see were i said it was a good development!
You people just go about labeling everything with religion and tribe, destroying nigeria. Make sure you read well and make use of a dictionary next time. Dimwit!

Let justice prevail

I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing in regards to monopolism but it's a good development.

Ac and gen inside tunnel

We have rich cultural heritage in nigeria.

Feminists and their wahala.
Understandably there are discriminations based on gender but suppressing one gender( banning the use of certain so called masculine words) because you feel threatened isn't right and isn't equality!

Nice

Unfortunately there's nothing anyone can do about it. The government is hellbent on it and they don't seem to care what the people think about it

EzegeNdiigbo:
bad belle simp
say No to poverty!!

Your thinking is very shallow.
The news wasn't about e money but those bikers. How's what they are doing important?
You're the simp here!

Anakojum:
Ego denma nikoro bia!
The sweetest speech I have ever heard from any tribe

Lol, i believe you're saying money should please come... Amen to that my brother but my quote has nothing to do with that. I'm actually a big fan of smart entrepreneurs but i don't see how outrider's doing silly things and risking their life's is important.

So this one na news.

Lockdown doesn't mean food won't be available. Endsars protest caused more damage to food prices.

My point is i don't think there is any need to advice people to panic buy.

Aside from the bishop, who are the other people he's referring to?
What are they not forgetting?
What is it they're plotting?
Well i sha know say them go fail! Hatred and revenge won't take you anywhere!


Nigeria my country!