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The Federal Government on Tuesday announced that two communities in Kaduna State recently recorded two straight years of uninterrupted supply of electricity.

It said the Gnami and Pakau communities enjoyed uninterrupted power from the 90-kilowatt Solar PV off-grid system installed in the areas, as the villages were far from the reach of the national power grid.

The Permanent Secretary in the power arm of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Louis Edozien, said the feat was achieved through the renewable energy project of the ministry, which provides access to electricity for rural dwellers, using solar powered systems.



Edozien, who was represented by the ministry’s acting Director, Renewable Energy, Farauk Yabo, disclosed this when delegates from the Economic Community of West African States visited the two communities to mark the end of the regional training workshop on improvement of policy and regulatory framework for clean energy mini-grids.

The permanent secretary said the project was in line with the administration’s drive to provide electricity to rural communities that might not in the distant future have access to power supply because of their distance from the national grid.

In a statement from the ministry, Edozien explained that the 40KW solar PV mini-grid at Gnami village consisted of power generation and distribution systems, house installation systems, and street lights and metering systems, adding that it was currently supplying uninterrupted electricity to 100 households.

He stated that the 50KW solar PV renewable energy micro utility at the Pakau community was providing power to about 300 households.

According to Edozien, the REMU facility operates on a mobile electronic payment system with provision for at least 10 business and commercial customers.

Speaking on behalf of the communities, the village head of Gnami, Mr. Ibrahim Yerima, according to the statement, expressed gratitude to the Federal Government and assured the delegates that the facilities would be well protected and put into proper use.

In another development, the Transmission Company of Nigeria announced that it had restored electricity supply to Birinin Gwari and Yauri in Kaduna and Kebbi states, respectively.

It said power supply was restored in the areas at about 5:10pm on Monday, 11 days after the collapse of tower number 183.

In a statement signed by the General Manager, Public Affairs, Seun Olagunju, the TCN said that its 132kV transmission tower 183, between Tegina and Kontagora in Niger State, collapsed at about 7am on July 13, due to severe flash flood caused by heavy rainfall, which eroded the base of the tower.

It also stated that power supply to the Kontagora sub-station would be restored as soon as the repair on the station’s circuit breaker was completed.

The TCN stated that it had inaugurated a new 40MVA transformer at its 132/33kV transmission sub-station at Mayo-Belwa as part of efforts to improve power supply.

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Please I seriously need one.... eaabankole@gmail.com

PLUNGING NAIRA – BEFORE YOU BLAME EMEFIELE LOOK AT YOURSELF


It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.

The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.
There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenisation Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians. Back then we had a booming economy.

We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students. We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry.
We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well.
Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.
Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children. Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc.

We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them.
We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170m fashion-conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in-Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level”music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song. As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas.

Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead. And we Nigerians make it a special point to shop from the Oyinbos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas.
I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there. Just continue to wear your Armani gear and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article tomorrow in my Saturday column in This Day is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC – Nigeria’s most successful club – not having a sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo . Don’t curtail your interest in choice wines ( we were the number one champagne consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, America and whatever else curricula.
Carry on with your love of French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer. Stock up on your Italian, American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England – the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt. Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly.

Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo. But don’t forget that there is payback time and Emefiele is not your problem. Time for us all to look in the mirror and take responsibility.

Source: http://www.theheraldng.com/see-why-the-naira-may-fall-to-the-dollar-at-n1000/#OZ215OjWVIBP2tLI.99

Lolzzz you know hear the name of the guy "AZUBOBO" the guy don bobo all of una

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A Kano Shariah High Court has sentenced a Muslim cleric, Abdulaziz Dauda, popularly known as Inyass, and nine others to death by hanging for blasphemy Prophet Mohammed.

The court of Islamic law gave the ruling on Tuesday against Dauda and nine others, saying they also incited people to perpetuate religious violence.

The prosecutor, Lamido Abba Sorondinki, said Dauda equated the Prophet Mohammed with the late leader of another religious order during a public gathering in Kano in August, last year.

Sorondinki said the accused were found guilty after five witnesses, including police, testified against them.

The 10 have the right to seek redress at an upper appellate court. The trial, it was learnt, was conducted in camera.

Dauda was arrested on August 18, 2015 in Abuja and brought to Kano to face trial on a two-count charge of blasphemy and inciting crisis.

Hundreds of Muslim youths had burnt the sharia court located at Rijiyar Lemo area of Kano in protest against the “blasphemous comments” allegedly made by Dauda, a leader of the Tijjaniyya sect.

He reportedly committed the offence at the Maulud festivity on June 31, 2015. Soron Dinki said five witnesses, including the police, testified before the court.

Dauda’s counsel, who concealed his identity, refused to comment on the judgment. They all have the right to appeal against the death sentence.

Source: Punch Newspapers

Bless you Bro Jonathan for ds devotion...I need ur number sir

these countries should allow Nigeria to re-colonize them. Lobatan Shikena

Yes @ Chams Abuja on Thursday 6 by 8am

Joshey:
Was your venue Abuja as well? What times was yours slated for?

Got d mail also...

Yoruba Mother! Yoruba Mother!! Yoruba Mother!!!

Wonderful memory of the past often take me to the land where I grew up
And how blessed and wonderful are our Yoruba mothers
Yorùbá mothers are one of the best when it
comes to child upbringing.
They are endowed with tactics to raise a stubborn child

Yorùbá mothers produce the best range of slaps:

IGBATI,
IFOTI,
IGBAJU,
IGBARUN,
IFORUN,
IFAKUN,
ILADI,
ABARA.

These slaps will make you think
you were adopted.

IGBATI will make you correct your wrongs instantly!
The beauty of IFOTI is that, you will confess your sins on the spot.
IGBARUN, IGBAJU and IFORUN will make you expose those who committed the crime with you without hesitation.

and ILADI will make you pee in your new
pants.

Now ABARA is the worst...

And apart from ordinary IGBAJU, we have an advanced IGBAJU which is IGBAJU OLOYI.

When you received that one, you'll lose balance and your head will go into "auto-search" mode as you'll be looking for what hit you.
This will make you do all the actions of the other slaps aforementioned at once!

OH! IGBAJU OLOYI... it can reset someone to 3D immediately (DEAF, DUMB, and DAFT).
When your mother says, let's go home, you will say it's in my pocket ma. lol.

God bless our parents for the good upbringing. If you were brought up in Yorubaland, regardless of how caring your mother was, you'd have encountered these slaps ...=)

Abi I lie

niyno:
I have sent to the ffg addresses check ur mail jesurumeiduda@yahoo.com elhasansas@yahoo.com filip2unine@yahoo.co.uk. goksman4real@yahoo.com awkfor56@yahoo.com connectajtaiwo@gmail.com isaacokewu@yahoo.com suky4u2nv@yahoo.com connectajtaiwo@gmail.com.viexcey: 16450joa@gmail.com, isaacaffon@gmail.com everlouis01@yahoo.com amosadeniyius@yahoo.co.uk amosadeniyius@yahoo.co.uk boblanre1@yahoo.com

Plzzzzzzzzz, I really need the past questn... kindly forward it to my mail. eaabankole@gmail.com

One of my biggest fantasies is to pay a visit to Googleplex and have a glimpse of what people search for all around the world.
That would give me an insight into what people love, what people need, what people want to do and so on and so forth.


This blog ( http://jobzilla.ng/ ) has a massive amount of traffic everyday from job seekers in Nigeria, who are either ardent followers or those who come via Google search.
Trust me, I use an analytics software that enables me view and monitor the search terms that bring users to my blog.
Today, I have decided to compile and share an unedited list of the 9 funniest search terms (there are even more) to my blog by job seekers in Nigeria.
1. OGUN STATE DO YOU NEED TEACHER FROM APRIL 2014

2. past attitude text questions (attitude text? confused!)

3. cocacola gladuate tlaining ploglam (lol, this guy is probably from Anambra state)

4. nigerian beury recruitment 2014.

5. vacancies with no requirement Warri (no requirements?! Are you kidding me? Are you a toddler?)

6. When nigeria airforce trainee 2014 go start (He probably needs Google Pidgin)

7. when waec to start share for appointment letter on last interview 2014

abeg job dey? (Maybe it's time for Google to add support for Pidgin English)

No disrespect, but this is funny. People really do need jobs o!
Have a great day peeps and don't forget to share with friends to make their day too. [/b]

source: jobzilla.ng

obongtunji: Yes, there is visa network in Ilesha......lop

Thanks... God bless you

Pls, house
can anybody from Ilesa Osun state confirm to me whether there is Visafone network in Ilesa, pls, its very urgent... Urgent reply will be highly appreciated
Just to know whether I can browse with visafone modem at Ilesa
thanks

R2bees: Tottenham vs Man city on RDV

Confirmed

ifenadi: Son of God

Funny%
questn 4u
is d son of a Lion not a Lion?
is d son of a King not a King?
Then
is the son of God not God?
Jesus is the son of God and is God

That is the mystery of the Trinity, may God make it to be more open unto those that believe

Can you email me your price,

4channel DVR
8 Channel DVR
16channel DVR

Outdoor IR Camera
Indoor Dome IR Camera
Power Supply and Connectors,

Thanks,
email: emmmillenium2002@yahoo.com

Kindly give us a live of partial eclipse of the sun in your area, it is expected to start around 11am..... Lets give update of our experience here

Nigeria will experience a partial solar eclipse on Sunday the 3rd of November; an astronomical event that will have the earth thrown into temporal or partial darkness as the moon blocks the sun’s rays from reaching the earth.

Briefing journalists on what Nigerians should expect, the Director General of the Nigeria Space Research And Development Agency (NASDRA), Dr Sa’idu Mohammed said the eclipse will come in three phases; a partial eclipse at about 1.00 pm when the moon will touch the edge of the sun, the maximum eclipse shortly before 3.00pm when the moon is expected to be closest to the center and shortly after 4.00pm when the moon will leave the sun’s edge.

He however stated that there is no cause for alarm and Nigerians should not panic.

As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocksthe Sun.

This can happen only at new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy.

In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses only part of the Sun is obscured.

If the Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every single month.

However, the Moon’s orbit is inclined at more than 5 degrees to Earth’s orbit around the Sun so its shadow at new moon usually misses Earth.

Earth’s orbit is called the ecliptic plane as the Moon’s orbit must cross this plane in order for an eclipse to occur.

In addition, the Moon’s actual orbit is elliptical, often taking it far enough away from Earth that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun totally.

The orbital planes cross each year at a line of nodes resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses occurring each year; no more than two of which can be total eclipses.

However, total solar eclipses are rare at any particular location because totality exists only along a narrow path on Earth’s surface traced by the Moon’s shadow or umbra.

An eclipse is a natural phenomenon. Nevertheless, in some ancient and modern cultures, solar eclipses have been attributed to supernatural causes or regarded as bad omen. A total solar eclipse can be frightening to people who are unaware of its astronomical explanation, as the Sun seems to disappear during the day and the sky darkens in a matter of minutes.

Since looking directly at the Sun can lead to permanent eye damage or blindness, special eye protection or indirect viewing techniques are used when viewing a solar eclipse.

It is technically safe to view only the total phase of a total solar eclipse with the unaided eye and without protection, however this is a dangerous practice as most people are not trained to recognize the phases of an eclipse which can span over two hours while the total phase can only last up to 7.5 minutes for any one location.

Sources: http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/10/29/nasdra-asks-nigerians-to-brace-up-for-partial-solar-eclipse/

sammy@28:
@Kartunope, Oyo State is on d 21st @ikeja if ur zonal exercise is there..

Pls do they use state of origin to know your state or state of residence....
Like me now, state of origin is Oyo but state of residence is Lagos..... Am joining Oyo people or Lagos people to do the exercise

wow, who says animal does not think?

pls House, give me the name and model of the best decoder and lnb I should go for inorder to start flexin wt irib. Sorry if I have derailed the thread

it is very difficult to believe d blogsite info, every blogsite wants a mouse click.....shit
let us get the news from goal.com direct or supersport, then we can confirm its authenticity

rapthugx: RDV is on Amos 5 @17'E

RDV is on eutelsat 16E not a Amos 17E but U get the two sat together with one lnb

Rdv now advertises champions league, Epl, Europa, super cup and french league.... Fta 4life

Seyilome: pls on what satillite and direction is it

On eutelsat 16E, freq 12562 symbol rate 30000 H

Cardiff City vs Manchester City now live on RDV with a very good quality... Enjoy

onegig: has the laptop ever fallen? Is the britness due to changes in power plans like when you plug in the ac charger it lightens up and when you remove it dims. Or does it flicker on and off.

Thanks very much, am grateful for your contribution, I have fixed the problem, I later discovered the screen was the problem. The screen was moduless and I changed the screen and it was ok.

moshoodn: I've done that already that's why I said the screen aint faulty.

the problem with the laptop is the screen, the inverter inside screen module always causes that kind of problem but my own laptop is mini and the screen is moduless, which means inverter is built inside the screen. I changed the screen and it came back to life

emmmillenium: try and connect external monitor to its VGA port, if the monitor works perfectly with it. Then its like you are having the same problem with my pc

the problem with the laptop is the screen, the inverter inside screen module always causes that kind of problem but my own laptop is mini and the screen is moduless, which means inverter is built inside the screen. I changed the screen and it came back to life

moshoodn: My lil brother Brian Laptop is having issues.

when you switch it on, all necessary lights come up, even the fans roll, but it doesn't boot.

The screen too doesn't light up.

NB: The screen aint faulty.

try and connect external monitor to its VGA port, if the monitor works perfectly with it. Then its like you are having the same problem with my pc