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ABOUT KIAKIA GAS


Kiakia Gas is an energy company with a mission to use the operational knowledge from delivering last mile energy to consumers to provide insight to increase value in the energy sector. Kiakia Gas is realizing this by leveraging technology and data driven approaches to provide energy to homes and businesses. Collecting and developing insights from energy market data will enable Kiakia Gas meet the needs of Africa’s energy across the value and ensure affordable access to energy.

We are currently planning to roll out a number of data-driven initiatives to help drive growth and expansion across the gas value chain within Nigeria and Africa; we are therefore seeking to hire an Energy Market Research Analysts for the organization.

Preamble:
The Research Analyst role at Kiakia Gas is a team role with responsibility to collaborate regularly (and remotely) with the retail, distribution and consulting team to collect data, carry out research and develop appropriate reports and for the Kiakia Gas Company and its clients. The Research Analyst has the primary responsibility to data collection, research and analytics for the Kiakia Gas Company. This position works closely with internal and external partners, as well as with management and senior leadership. Key goals include initiating and executing market relevant research and data analytics projects for Kiakia Gas.

The location for the role is in Lagos Nigeria. However, work is largely virtual.

Purpose of the role:
The purpose of the Research Analyst role is to ensure that Kiakia Gas initiates and runs that enables it build and expand its customer-base in the respective market, by facilitating transactions and operations as well as continuously studying and engaging the market to ensure steady growth of market share for the company.

The Research Analyst will work with a research and analytics team to generate market-relevant data and reports for specific aspects of the oil, gas and energy market and to analyze, interpret, and present data related to markets, operations and Kiakia Gas’s clients businesses.

The Research Analyst will participate in the development of approaches for the collection data and execution of research projects and analysis of energy market trends and operations and the Kiakia Gas customer base.

Reports:
The Research Analyst reports directly to the CEO of Kiakia Gas Limited

Roles and Responsibilities
1. Support investigations to identify and explain significant market events and articulate refinements to our system to better capture such events
2. Support Kiakia Gas’ understanding of energy markets
3. Participate in internal and external communications on energy markets topics.
4. Collects, compiles, validates, interprets and analyses data and trends using standard practices and techniques in specific field(s) of the energy market.
5. Applies quantitative and/or qualitative analysis techniques and methods.
6. Works on assignments that are moderately complex under indirect supervision where there is latitude for independent action and decision-making.
7. Independently analyzes issues to reconcile and resolve problems.
8. Under indirect to general supervision, collaborates with clients by telephone or in person to survey, solicit or collect information or to direct interviews.
9. May manage project components, delegating and reviewing work for accuracy, and quality.
10. Keeps abreast of trends and developments in related fields.
Required Qualifications & Experience
1. Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field:
2. Understanding of Nigeria/Africa and/or international oil and gas markets including fundamental drivers of market pricing
3. Experience with statistical software and Microsoft Excel
4. Experience obtaining and communicating qualitative insights from quantitative analysis
5. Experience working in a team-based environment
6. 1-2 years work or commercially-relevant research experience
7. A passion for reducing the cost of energy from renewable sources
8. A team player with excellent communication skills
9. Analytical thinking and problem-solving capability

Remuneration
Kiakia Gas will be responsible for all operations related expenditure of the Research Analyst.

The company’s payment will be reviewed within the first 6 months of engagements and subsequent annual reviews will take place based on performance.

Values:

Entrepreneurial Spirit, Innovation, Proactiveness

How to Apply :
Interested candidates should send a CV and one-page cover letter to Hr@kiakiagas.com with “Research Analyst (LG-NG)” in the subject line.

Due to the volume of applications, failure to follow these instructions will unfortunately result in your application not being considered.

A venture capitalist firm, Platform Capital, has announced it would be commencing work on the record-breaking Leather City Park (“Leather City”) and a state-of-the-art foot-wear design facility, the NIBRA Designs Limited (“NIBRA”) in Ariara market, Aba, Abia. The shoe factory is said to become the largest in sub-Saharan Africa so far. Its will be leveraging world-class Brazilian technology, a member of the private equity firm announced on LinkedIn.

The NIBRA facility will start operations with an initial capacity of 10,000 pairs per day, and it’s expected to grow to 100,000 in 5 years. Fourth Quarter 2019 is the lasted time for the commissioning of the project. About 1,000 persons will be employed directly in the first year by NIBRA after which this will grow to 5,000 in the medium term. If things go as planned, the project will serve both domestic and the international markets. The Leather City is expected to provide wide-ranging opportunities that improve not only productivity but the quality of products for the good part of the over 120,000 individuals currently operating in Ariaria market.

Read more at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/29/aba-gets-a-massive-break/

briefness:
Was Onnoghen a dictator for postponing NJC sitting also a dictator? Perhaps if NJC had sat earlier, their actions would have saved the day. The timing of the indefinite postponement was wrong.

I do agree with you.

Following the suspension of the CJN, Onoghen, many well-meaning Nigerians have been expressing their displeasure at the act of the President which they consider a complete violation of the 1999 Constitution.

One of the recent outburst came from the peaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara. Pointing to the provision in sections 157 and 292 of the constitution, he alluded to the following:



“This did not come as a rude shock except to those who have been blind to the gradual but progressive erosion of democratic values in the polity as President Buhari’s government has never hidden its disdain for the rule of law,” he said.

“We have watched in disbelief as the Government recklessly deploys institutional prerogatives; routinely flouts the rule of law; subverts and assaults democratic Institutions; refuses to accept opponents as legitimate; suppresses citizens civil liberties(especially those of opponents) and trample underfoot the media. In short, the Government’s tyrannical and authoritarian credentials are loathsomely legendary.

“The whole idea of a limited government is that the President’s powers is limited by law and it is ultra vires his powers to act in the absence of explicit legislative authorisation. That is representative democracy at its best which our 1999 Constitution as amended guarantees.



“It is instructive to note that our constitution does not contemplate or presupposes a situation whereby the Judiciary will have a suspended CJN and an acting CJN at the same time. Therefore, it is right to posit, as some have done that the President now has his own Chief Judge to do his bidding while Nigeria has a sitting CJN until he is removed in line with the provisions of the Constitution.

“As of today, Nigeria is now Germany in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire. Our democracy is on fire; ignited by the very people who swore to protect and defend it.

“That this fire must not convert the chancellor to Fuhrer as it happened in Germany in 1933 depends on our collective response and that of the international community. We must not bow our knees to dictatorship: not now, not ever again.”


Dogara added that the world must not allow “this unmitigated disaster” in Nigeria.

Exercepts of the reaction of the Speaker were taken from an interview with te Cable News Nigeria.

It would be recalled that the weekend announcement of the Suspension of Justice Onoghen and the immediate appointment of the New CJN by the President has been described in many circles as unprecedented in Nigeria’s history.

Read more at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/26/we-are-now-in-full-dictatorship-dogara/

How to Win Elections in Nigeria ( Revised Updated Edition 2019).

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Deny Every Item in the Campaign Manifestos

2. Commence a Cash Transfer Scheme Six-months to Elections

3. Appoint a Family Relative to Collate Votes at the National Level

4. Do not Assent to any Laws to make Elections more Credible

5. Do not Attend any Public Debate

6. Appoint a CJN that you can "Trust"

7. Tell the World Elections will be Free, Fair and Credible

Conclusion

References

https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/26/how-to-win-elections-in-nigeria-revised-updated-edition-2019/

Punch Newspaper Nigeria

25.01.2019

The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development has described the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen as grand illegality, desecration of the garment of democracy and final stage of President Adolf Buhari Hitler’s Armageddon which must be stopped.

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In a statement in Abuja on Friday in reaction to the suspension of the head of Nigerian judiciary and signed by its Director of Publicity, Comrade O’Seun John, AIED stated that the action should be protested not just by every member of the Nigerian Body of Benchers but all patriots who hold dear the continuous existence of Nigeria.



The statement said, “The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, today, unveiled fully his true personality after years of dilly dally and pretence as a reformed dictator. Muhammadu Buhari, whose action is likened to that of Adolf Hitler, has shown to the entire world that he is nothing but a despotic totalitarian who would not mind dragging every institution of the Nigerian State down to win reelection.

READ ALSO: New CJN, Justice Muhammad, to set up election tribunal tomorrow

“Today, we have seen a man who gets blood rush in illegality, spits on the pages of our hallow constitution and kicks our sacred laws which forms our identity.

“The Nigerian Judiciary which is the only institution of state left with sanity is under siege. Our nation has been kicked off the cliff and going on a free fall, we are in trouble!

“The illegal suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria is not only alien to every fibres of our laws but distasteful and an unforgivable violation of the core spirit and principle of separation of power.

“We hereby call on all members of the Nigerian Body of Benchers and patriots across the world to stand up against a new Adolf Hitler that has found home in Nigeria. We call on every world leaders to stand up for the Nigerian people at these moment of tribulation and help end this reign of absurdity.”

See more at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/25/you-behave-like-hitler-group-to-buhari-on-onoghen/

Bighead9:
Buhari has done the right thing. Onnonghen has his hands dipped in Corruption. This is a wake up call to all corrupt Judges.

Read more at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/25/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-cjn-justice-muhammed/

Punch Newspaper

25.01.2019

The following is what we know about Justice Muhammed, according to his citation on Wikipedia.

Justice Muhammed was born on 31 December, 1953 at Doguwa – Giade, a local government area in Bauchi State.
He is a Nigerian jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
He was formerly a Justice of the Nigerian courts of appeal.
He attended Government Secondary School, Azare, where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1973 before he later proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University where he received a bachelor’s degree in Law in 1980.

He later obtained a Master and Doctorate (PhD) degrees from the same university in 1984 and 1998 respectively.
Tanko began his career in 1982, after his Call to Bar in 1981, the same year he graduated from the Nigerian Law School.
In 1989, he was appointed as Chief Magistrate of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory, a position he held till 1991 when he became a Judge at the Bauchi State Sharia Court of Appeal.

He served in that capacity for two years before he was appointed to the Bench of the Nigerian courts of appeal as Justice in 1993.
He held this position for 13 years before he was appointed to the Bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2006 but was sworn in on January 7, 2007.

Read more at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/25/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-cjn-justice-muhammed/

Punch Newspaper Nigeria

25.01.2019

President Muhammadu Buhari has just suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, according to the President’s Special Assistant on New Media, Mr Bashir Ahmad.
In his place, Ahmad said through his twitter handle, @BashirAhmaad, that Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed, was named by the President.

It is a common practice amongst many small businesses in Nigeria to pursue expansive product mix. This is due, in the main part, to the massive fragmentation that exists in the consumer goods market where a mass of small enterprises offer largely similar services. In the market, these products portend little or no features to differentiate them significantly enough to elicit brand loyalty. So, firms, particularly in the vast and mostly unregulated service sector, simply opt to offer a wide variety of services supposedly related to a particular main product, hoping that they will attract existing or new customers of the main service to become consumers of the related service or product.

However, what I found in my interaction with many service providers (especially those in the personal services and food & beverage market), reveal that this strategy has not led to better sales. Probing deeper it turned out that nearly all of these service providers undertook some product integration strategy simply on their own assumptions of what the customer would want alongside their main offerings. For example, I found that a particular owner of a hairdressing salon had introduced magazine sales to her main service offering (i.e hair-making) since, she insinuated, women would like to while away their free time reading lifestyle magazines and celebrity news while being attended to or waiting for their turns. She provided this new product for nearly a year only to end up with ridiculous sales. Unfortunately, it turned out that most customers preferred to gossip or call friends and family while being attended to or waiting to be attended to. This scenario exists in many other similar service-oriented businesses in Nigeria. Businesses need to rethink their product integration strategy.

To realize a successful product integration one must pose the following questions: when customers want for a service or product, what need are they looking to meet? And when meeting this need with an offered service or product, are there other needs they need to meet at the same time and place, that the customer is willing to pay a price for? In the case of the hair-making salon, though customers obviously read newspapers, the demand for newspapers does not come up at the same time as the demand to fix hair. Therefore, these customers were simply not willing to pay for newspapers while waiting to fix their hair or while fixing their hair.
In all, what exists on a day-to-day basis is that needs show up at different points in time and place, therefore product integration around the customer simply does not lead to the certainty that sales will follow. Instead, service providers need to think of their integration strategy around the needs that need to be met. This needs to be met principle obviously supersedes other integration strategies because it will lead to consistency in customers’ willingness to pay for product or service, and therefore eliminates uncertainties.

Read more at:
https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/meeting-needs-through-proper-product-integration-strategy/

Afamed:
Because they all know your candidate Atikulooting is a looting machine

Hmm

Famousbabe:
See more... Watch the video HERE

For those still wondering where the real battle will be fought in the February elections, well, data speaks for itself. Much of the question has been answered by an infographic provided by GaurdianElections. The infographics display, in a very clear and user-friendly manner, information regarding the number of registered voters across the country according to geopolitical zone.

See more here: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/where-the-votes-are-in-the-2019-elections/

AKswift:
Even with Oby joining the coalition, they would still fail! Which of these candidates has a strong footing in the North? None! Even in the South, these guys are mostly known on media and favoured by the few enlightened (not educated) ones who wants the best for this country.

These coalition, if sustained and nutured across all regions, would make an impact in 2023, not now

It is also important to know where the votes are: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/where-the-votes-are-in-the-2019-elections/

Racoon:
Even with this coliation, these bright greenhorns dont have the requisite experience and broad political base to win a major exercise of a presidential election.

The political structure argument.

Powermind:
I am ashamed for Oby

It's a pity. Activism is certainly different from politicking!

Oweku:
I prefer Sowore..He pulls more crowed than them.

But some people think he's too arrogant.

Less than a day after the former minister and Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria(ACPN), Oby Ezekwesili withdrew from the race for Nigeria's 2019 Presidential Elections, his running mate, Alhaji Gani Galadima announced he is endorsing President Muhammadu Buhari from the presidential race.

Recall that Galadima who posted a very poor performance in the election debate for vice presidential candidates had earlier alleged that Ezekwesili entered the race because she was looking forward to becoming the Minister of Finance.

Information from sources close to the running mate of the ACPN had hinted that “Galadima is not known and ACPN is not popular. By withdrawing from the race, the opportunity has now knocked at his door to endorse Buhari. This is what he has been looking for”. It is not, however, clear if this is a decision by the Leadership of the party or a unilateral decision of Alhaji Gani Galadima.

More details at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/ezekwesilis-running-mate-buhari-ill-campaign-for-buhari/

krendo:
Moghalu should strike a deal with Atiku to become his CBN Governor

Good thinking. But there're people waiting in the wings to cling that position (from the Southwest). They think it's "their time".

Oweku:
Hmm

Prof. Kinsley may be the favoured guy...

In a short video clip posted by the Presidential aspirant of the
Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) on his Facebook page this evening (24.01.2019), he and the other two aspirants Omoyele Sowore, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, together pledged that they would work towards producing a consensus candidate as a unifying front for the 2019 Elections against the two major parties APC and PDP.

Before now, Fela Durotoye had hinted of a potential withdrawal from the race following the earlier withdrawal by Oby Ezekwesili from the race.

Recal that candidates had entered into a voluntary agreement under the Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT) umbrella to produce a common candidate, but that has suffered a number of setbacks in terms of procedure of implementation as many of the aspirants pulled out of the arrangement.

In this exclusive piece sent to Pulse, Moghalu says PACT was put together by persons who had colluded among themselves to assassinate his presidential ambition.

More details: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/omoyele-sowore-prof-kingsley-moghalu-and-fela-durotoye-agree-on-consensus-candidate/

As an immediate fall-out of this morning's declaration of Oby Ezekwesili that she would withdraw from the Presidential Race, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is too late for any candidate to withdraw from contesting any position in the upcoming elections.

Further, INEC said this while reacting to the withdrawal of Oby Ezekwesili as presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN).

Recall that Ezekwesili announced her withdrawal on Thursday, saying she wanted to give room for a coalition against candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC).

However, reacting via a statement, Rotimi Oyekanmi, chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, said November 17 was the last date for withdrawal.

The statement read: “It is impossible for any presidential candidate to withdraw from the race now. According to the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2019 General Elections, the last day for withdrawal by candidates or replacement of withdrawn candidates by political parties was 17th November, 2018 for Presidential and National Assembly Elections.

More details at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/inec-to-ezekwesili-you-cant-withdraw-from-arce-at-this-time/

In a press conference by the party executives, they also accused her of not consulting with them before announcing her withdrawal from the race and never been “serious” with the campaign.

The party also added that they are stil in the race and their party, the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (APCN) has declared it’s support for the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress APC.

“If you will observe, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, is the only presidential candidate who was so militant in her campaign without any tangible thing on the ground to indicate any seriousness in the prosecution of her campaign. No campaign secretariat, billboard or great commitment on the ground to indicate any seriousness.

Read more at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/you-tried-to-use-our-platform-to-negotiate-a-ministerial-position-in-the-next-political-dispensation-party-leaders-accuse-oby-ezekwesili/

Excerpts from Oby Ezekwesili’s withdrawal speech:


““My commitment to this promising political recalibration has been consistent and in consonance with my agreement, at the request of candidates under the Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT) arrangement in 2018, when I consented to supervise the internal selection process as an outside observer passionate about building an alternative force.”

We wait to see how this paces the way for the emergence of a “Third Force”

See more at: https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/24/as-oby-ezekwesili-quits-the-presidential-race/

So I’ve noticed this insinuation in many people of assuming that anyone who dares to speak up about the poor performance and lack of capacity in the President Buhari administration is a supporter of the candidature of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. A similar insinuation also characterized the political atmosphere in the build-up to the 2015 Presidential elections. I beg to disagree with that notion.

We first need to have a country before we can dream of having a President. If the last nearly 4 years of the President Buhari administration has been as bad as people have experienced and expressed it to be; if the now very obvious and severe health challenge of President Buhari is something that matters to the progress and wellbeing of Nigeria, then the first step is to get the message across to the majority of Nigerians out there. And such a message should not be discounted by any unprogressive insinuations. The President is not doing anyone a favour remaining in Aso Rock for another 4 years if this is not to the greater good of Nigeria.

In settings where people sincerely self-regulate themselves in public life, he should resign. Yes. David Cameron did the same in the wake of the unexpected vote for Brexit. He made it clear to the world and the British people that he’s not the fit and proper person to lead the United Kingdom at such a time. We need to be bold enough to ask President Buhari and his army of supporters to do the same.

Source:
https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/22/vote-people-not-apc-or-pdp-part-2/

* "Nigeria to access $100m Indian loan to develop nationwide broadband connectivity"- 18th January 2019, Daily Trust News Papers

* "Nigeria-Brazil agriculture project to gulp $1.1billion loan"- 17th January 2019, The Nation News Papers

Source:
https://techdirectarchive.com/2019/01/23/soon-we-may-borrow-from-ghana/