247frolicboss: The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has called on Nigerians to stop birthing more children than they can cater for.
He spoke on Thursday when Mohammed malick Fall, the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) representative in Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit in Kano.
According to him about 3 million children in Kano are out of school due to ignorance of their parents on their responsibility to their children’s educational up-bringing.
‘’for you to have kids you must make sure that the responsibility of their education, health, and general up-bringing both morally and otherwise are part and parcel of what a parent should do’’.
He said "it is not only giving birth to the child that matters, but how to take your responsibility as a parent to bring-up that child to grow and be a benefit to the society in general’’ saying ‘’if people are aware of this they will not even have many kids that they know they cannot take care of’’.
osahonmk: The Nigeria Senate had a critical talk and review of the progress made after privatization of the Power Sector following a debate and discussions on a motion moved by Senator Dino Melaye (APC Kogi West), entitled “DISCOs, electricity consumers and the burden of over-billing.”
AS the Senate began discussions on the power sector in Nigeria, yesterday, a very gloomy picture was painted by senators who came to the conclusion that there was no hope of Nigeria coming out of its present power crisis.
The Senate, which noted that the power sector was in dire need of emergency response, said Nigerians would not have steady power supply because the distribution companies were bankrupt and could not, therefore, procure meters.
Consequently, the upper chamber asked that the privatisation of the sector be revisited without delay. Senate chamber
Melaye, in his motion, said the burden of over-billing shouldered by electricity consumers in the country, even in the face of epileptic power supply by Distribution Companies, DISCOs, was totally unacceptable.
He also urged the Senate to mandate the Committee on Power to look into the astronomical electricity billing by DISCOs across the country and asked the Senate to urge the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to call DISCOS to stop forthwith the practice of estimated billing.
As Daily Electricity Generation rises to 4, 197.50 MW
Melaye had at plenary on Tuesday, promised to present the motion after drawing the attention of senators to the exorbitant estimated billings being forced on consumers by the DISCOs.
In his contribution, Senator Ben Murray- Bruce, PDP, Bayelsa East, made it clear that with the manner the privatisation was carried out, operators in the power sector, such as DISCOs, were in serious difficulty.
Therefore, he recommended that the Senate prevailed on government to revisit the privatisation.
Murray-Bruce, who declared that Nigerians have a catastrophe in their hands as far as the sector was concerned, said those currently running the sector were technically deficient due to a lot of factors not envisaged at the time the privatization was executed.
He said: “They are technically bankrupt, unless we revisit the entire privatization process, unless we understand and dissect what went wrong, we will still get estimated billing.
“We have a catastrophe on our hands, there will be no power in Nigeria until the current structure is reviewed.
“Those who privatised the sector did not imagine that naira will be devalued from N160 to about N400 now. Those who invested in the business thought it was like a company where they will make a lot of money.
‘’I believe they only had enough money to pay the federal government and make the initial investment; they did not have the capacity to run a power sector company in a modern economy.”
In his contribution, Senator Mustapha Bukar, APC, Katsina North, while lamenting the ugly situation of the power sector, said that going by realities on ground in the sector, the country was sitting on an emergency without any sign of immediate solution.
According to him, though the nation has capacity for generation over 12,000mega watts, only 4,000mw have been achieved at any time, out of which 1,800mw are paid for by consumers, making the providers to be in perpetual indebtedness.
Senator Bukar, who is the Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, said: “The problem we have is the inefficiency within the system which we have actually so far not decided to address.
‘’ I will give you a small example: Nigeria has an installed capacity of 12,522 Megawatts of power. We have non-available capacity of 5,300; we have non-operational capacity of 3,180; meaning that the amount that is actually available is just over 4,000 Megawatts out of 12,500.
“We have transmission loss of 228, we have distribution loss of 447 Megawatts. At the end of the day, only 3,800 Megawatts reach the consumer. And we have commercial loss of more than 36 percent.
“So, what is actually being paid for out of the over 3,000 Megawatts is only 1,800 Megawatts. So unless and until we decide to look at these inefficiency within the value chain, there is no way we can have better electricity generation, distribution and also billing system in the country.
Got to NYSC orientation Camp, Fanisau Dutse, Jigawa state in the afternoon yesterday. So man decided to get water from the tap in order to shower so as to refresh the body, only to meet this queue. Meanwhile, camp just opened yesterday and it's just 10% of we new Corpers that already arrived. So I anticipate for a rugged three weeks.
all this suffer suffer camp in the north but when their come to the south east here those aboki's will be enjoying
Ajasco222: A northern lady and co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) group, Aisha Yesufu has called on President Buhari to resign as he's too frail to rule the country.. She posted the below video on twitter;
"For crying out loud President Muhammadu Buhari, can you allow everyone of us to reach the peak of our careers"
"What you're going through is God sent, people go through that in different ways"
"But please, Mr. President do not allow this keep the rest of us in bondage and for us as Nigerians it is time we wake up, the Acting President can’t do anything because he wants to be seen as a good man"
"We need to take our country back"
"Let the president resign, and if he can't, the national assembly should do the right thing and let's have another president"
comrChris: Abakaliki may not be as beautiful n big as Lagos, Enugu,Owerri etc but it's certainly ahead of her mates, the governor has done perfectly well, abakaliki n ebonyi in general is coming up n growing rapidly..
If you know ebonyi last 10 years n compare it now you will see the huge difference..
HOW MANY YEARS IS LAGOS STATE NOW THINK WITH YOUR HEAD PLS
Kebreal92: Who is deceiving them here wait,is this the Abakaliki I served. as much as I commend the present Governor for his good work,this pictures r not real. Well,Abakaliki can fine at night sha.
uglyafonja: Abakalike is the capital of ebony state.....it is popularly called A.I.. The city is beautiful and with so many fun creating arena.... The city is endowed with nice hotels.. A golf city Beaches and shopping mall,eateries.etc.. The city glitters at night....with three elegant flyovers, nice road network and beautiful buildings.... I love it when I visited over the weekend...you can't just get enough of this city.... A city with nice people and hardworking....
This are the few pics I took when I visited over the weekend... I really had fun
ALL THIS FOOLS THAT USED TO INSULT ABAKALIKI PEOPLE SHOULD COME AND TALK NOW
Vanillaskin: Why you comparing a man to a woman. A woman needs essentials like pad, makeup and body cream, so there is no way she can save all her money
Culture › Re: Emir Sanusi: "If You Don't Have Money, Don't Give Birth To Many Children" by colli247(m): 10:21am On Jun 02, 2017
dey here dey deceive urself.u can't scam pipu like me.Dey snap other state pic join Abakaliki IpobisaScam.