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President Of Botswana Appoints Akinwole II Omoboriowo As Vice Chairman Of Botswana Power Corporation’s Board Of Directors.

Botswana’s energy sector is set to gain a new strong voice with clear vision at its highest levels following the appointment of Nigerian energy leader Akinwole II Omoboriowo as Board Member and Vice Chairman of the Botswana Power Corporation’s (BPC) Board of Directors.

The move, confirmed on BPC’s official website, comes as the nation seeks to address persistent electricity supply challenges, expanding its renewable energy footprint and become net exporter of clean energy within a short period of time.

Omoboriowo, a leader in African power infrastructure and energy finance, brings over two decades of experience in utility-scale generation, project structuring, and cross-border energy development. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of GENESIS Energy Group, where he has led utility-scale generation projects of more than 780MW in operations, ongoing construction, and advanced development in Nigeria, South Africa, Benin Republic, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Mali and United Kingdom with a project development pipeline north of 4.5GW. His expertise spans conventional power infrastructure development, distributed energy deployments (both renewable and gas), natural gas commercialisation, energy markets reforms and specialised energy investment financing- capabilities that align with Botswana’s current reform priorities.

Steering Botswana’s Energy Transition

A recent World Bank‑sourced energy generation monitoring indicates that Botswana’s electricity generation at key coal plants has fluctuated significantly, with Morupule B’s production declining from 3,328 GWh in 2022–23 to 2,674 GWh in 2024–25 — reflecting instability in domestic supply capacity.

Omoboriowo joins BPC at a pivotal moment as the corporation continues to implement its Maduo 26 strategy, a five year transformation agenda launched in 2022 to improve operational efficiency and financial performance and make the utility a regional benchmark in energy supply. Experts say this strategy complements national priorities to diversify Botswana’s energy mix, increase renewable generation, and strengthen grid resilience — all part of wider reforms under the country’s Integrated Resource Plan.


His appointment reinforces BPC’s commitment to:

Expanding renewable energy capacity
Strengthening regional power trade within the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP)
Enhancing grid resilience and operational performance
Mobilising investment into sustainable energy infrastructure


Under this framework, BPC seeks not only to stabilize Botswana’s electricity supply but also to position the country as a net exporter of electricity within the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). Omoboriowo’s leadership is expected to focus on corporate structural re-alignment, capital efficiency, governance and ensuring that infrastructure development translates into measurable operational and commercial outcomes.

A Continental Perspective

Omoboriowo’s career highlights a trend of intra-African professional mobility, where expertise developed in other market is leveraged to solve complex challenges elsewhere. His experiences spans structuring and investing in multiple countries including the United Kingdom across both conventional and renewable energy projects, emphasizing capital efficiency, financial engineering governance, and execution rigour.

In a public LinkedIn post, Omoboriowo acknowledged the confidence placed in him by President Advocate Duma Boko of Botswana, as well as that of Minister of Minerals and Energy, Her Excellency Bogolo Joy Kenewendo, describing the role as an opportunity to contribute to a national institution at a critical stage of its development.

“I assume this responsibility with humility — but with buoyancy, high commitment to duty, and unwavering dedication to delivery. The work ahead is substantial, but so too is the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a critical national institution at an important moment in its evolution,” Omoboriowo wrote


Implications for Regional Energy Integration

As Botswana seeks to diversify its energy sources, improve system resilience and secure its energy security, the performance of BPC remains central to the country’s industrial ambitions and regional competitiveness. Enhanced governance and strategic oversight could influence not only domestic reliability but also Botswana’s role within the Southern African electricity market.

With Maduo 26 approaching its 2026 target horizon, Omoboriowo’s role as Vice Chairman places him at the heart of one of the most consequential transformation efforts in Botswana’s energy sector in recent years — a development that policymakers and regional energy stakeholders will be watching closely.


https://leadership.ng/president-of-botswana-appoints-akinwole-ii-omoboriowo-as-vice-chairman-of-botswana-power-corporations-board-of-directors/

While some nairalanders are masturbating to the death of 86 years old Khomeini

Another Khomeini has been selected.. Trump has zero intelligence because how does killing an 86 years old man change anything.

Well what do I know only time will tell.

Three US service members killed in Iran operation as Israeli rescuers say nine dead in Iran strike

Summary
Three US service members have been killed in action during the operation on Iran, launched alongside Israel on Saturday

In Israel, nine people have been killed after a missile strike in the city of Beit Shemesh, according to medical services - our correspondent reports from the scene

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has launched another wave of strikes on Tehran, while Iranian officials say at least 153 people including children were killed after a reported strike hit a school

Iran's interim leadership council is named after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed - Iran's foreign minister says a new leader could be chosen in "a day or two".

Strikes by Iran have also been reported in Dubai in the UAE, Qatar's capital Doha, Bahrain, and Kuwait - what you need to know on attacks across the Middle East

Iran has vowed "the most devastating offensive operation" against US bases and Israel - Trump says he would use "force never seen before" in response. Earlier he urged Iranians to "take back" the country

What next for Iran? It is still early to say if the bombing will lead to a resurgence of the anti-government movement, after thousands of protesters were killed earlier this year, writes our Middle East correspondent


https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t

If you don't call them Muslims
They see themselves as working standing on the

Surah An-Nisa 4:74: "Let those who would sacrifice this life for the Hereafter fight in the cause of Allah. And whoever fights in Allah's cause—whether they achieve martyrdom or victory—We will honour them with a great reward".

AntiChristian:
First and foremost, it is called The Qur'an not Koran!

Secondly, those killing in the north can't be said to be Muslims just because they call themselves so. Are those killing in the south east then Christians or traditionalist?

Allah has given the judgement to those who do what they are doing in the Qur'an in Surah Al-Ma'idah (5:33-34). However this can only be followed in a country with full Shari'ah law not Nigeria with the constitution as the first law.

And Muslim communities can't do much than preach and curb whoever they can from their own families and relatives. The Government has the right to protect the country!

And Education will not stop Russia from fighting Ukraine! Understanding the causes of the war is the first issue. Everyone is just playing to the gallery ascribing the killings to Muslims whereas Muslims are being killed as well....

To the Muslim men and women I wish you all- Jummah Mubarak.

I hope my message gets to you in peace.
With regards to the uprising in the North and the determination to usher jihad across the Northern zone.

With the death and mayhem caused by this Muslims in the North without regards to the fasting, creed or humanity

I want to ask does they Koran in any way support this violence carried out by this terrorist who apparently are Muslims.

Also what is the Muslim community doing to deradicalise young Muslims and encourage them to take to education.

Wow this is brutal. Putin the pig. Relentless on shedding blood of his own.

Warning: This story contains details of extreme violence and reference to suicide.

Four Russian soldiers have exposed the horror and brutality of conditions on their side of the front lines in Ukraine, with two men telling the BBC they saw soldiers being executed on the spot for refusing orders.

One man told a documentary team he saw a soldier executed on the order of his commander, who was made a "Hero of Russia" in 2024.

"I see it - just two metres, three metres... click, clack, bang," he said.

Another soldier, from a different unit, says he saw his commander shoot four men himself.

"I knew them," he says of the soldiers executed. "I remember one of them screaming 'Don't shoot, I'll do anything!'"

One of them also says he saw 20 bodies of fellow soldiers lying in a pit after being "zeroed" by comrades. The term "zero" is Russian military slang for executing your own.

In the documentary, The Zero Line: Inside Russia's War, men give detailed accounts about how they were tortured for refusing to take part in assaults they describe as verging on suicide missions. Russian troops call these attacks "meat storms" as waves of men are sent across the front line relentlessly to try and wear down Ukrainian forces.


For the first time, the BBC believes, Russian soldiers from the front line say on the record how they witnessed commanders ordering executions of their own men.

One of the men, whose job was to identify and count dead soldiers, provided detailed lists showing that he is the sole survivor from a group of 79 men he was mobilised with. Because he refused to go to the front line, he says he was tortured and urinated on. Others in his unit who refused would be electrocuted, starved and then forced into meat storms unarmed, he says.

The four men, who are on the run, told of the horrors they witnessed at an undisclosed location outside Russia



Almost all public opposition to President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has been stamped out in Russia. Official casualty numbers are not released by Moscow, but the UK's Ministry of Defence says more than 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed or injured since the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.

The Russian government says its armed forces "operate with utmost restraint, as far as possible under the conditions of a high-intensity conflict, treating their personnel with maximum care".

"Information regarding alleged violations and crimes is duly investigated," it added.

"We are unable to independently verify the accuracy or authenticity of the information you have provided," it said.


The detailed first-hand testimony from all four men also verifies reports of a breakdown of law and order on the Russian front line.

Ilya, the soldier who identified and counted the dead, is one of the men who says he saw comrades being killed by commanders.

Before the war, the 35-year-old taught children with special needs and autism in Kungur, in the Ural Mountains. Then in May 2024, police turned up at his parents' house and told him he was being called up.

He was mobilised alongside 78 other men, he says, at a recruitment centre in the city of Perm.


"Nearly everyone was drunk," he says. "Forwards into battle! We'll get Zelensky and raise our flag!" he recalls them shouting.

"I was watching them and thinking 'How did I end up here?' I was so scared."

Upon arriving in Ukraine, Ilya says most of the men were sent straight to the front line. He says he did not want to shoot or kill anyone, and ended up at a command post.

Conditions were brutal, and he says he witnessed four people being shot at point-blank range by a commander - one in Panteleimonivka, and three in Novoazovsk, both in Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine - because they had fled the front line and refused to return.


The saddest thing is that I knew them. I remember one of them screaming 'Don't shoot, I'll do anything!' but he [the commander] zeroed them anyway," Ilya says.

Zeroing is usually carried out as punishment for refusing orders, and acts as a means of intimidation for others who may be thinking of doing the same, the men told us.

"Your fate depended on your commander. The commander is on the radio: 'Zero this one, zero that one,'" Ilya says.

Executions of soldiers who refused orders were not confined to Ilya's unit.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7gw3l395ro

That's renewed hope for you. What that means is, if you don't have money you are likely to die in Nigerian quack clinics.

That's not risk that's judgement. That's eat and die ☺

Breaker001:
Promised €5000 only
Some risks are not worth taking at all 😎

Stop contradicting yourself. You said artist built houses but Asake dad is languishing in poverty.

MIKOLOWISKA:
Which one

I do a lot of write ups, if youre following my post you would know by now.

I can only talk and pray that people listen

anonimi:
So what enlightenement works are you doing to make us less corrupt than we are now, for better leaders to emerge from our midst

I think it's time we jettison that school of taught and call a spade a spade. Nigerians are corrupt and why God has given us bad leaders.

anonimi:
Was he also gathering money to fight for power, grab it and run cluelessly with it like a headless pig 🐖?

Is this not how Reno’s city boy became governor, master planner and president

On a serious note Nigerians need to appreciate legit work.

keshconnections:
First check who is his Oga oooo

Seriously I don't envy Nigerian business men because they all have their bag of bones.

Real Estate agent by day drug baron by night.

Car dealer by day drug pusher by night.

Nigerians and their get money any how mentality has ruin this Disgraced nation.

I was on Facebook where I heard someone bragging how he made tons of cash online from gaming and how he is thinking about quiting his job because of this new found wealth.

I paid a close attention to his post and discovered he was talking about WAJE and LUDO NAIRA.

So I downloaded and installed the waje and ludo app, credited each with #3000 naira and gave it a try. To my greatest surprise I won #2400 with #500 in waje spin and #1000 with #500 in ludo.

I was so excited to have won in short intervals and happy to discover an app that one can make money from.

But the excitement was short lived as I played subsequent times. All the games I played ended in lose and my money was gone

My advice stay away from waje and ludo naira if you don't want to go broke.

Sapa in Russia. Putin be roaming around forming strong man while hunger dey kpai russians

MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Restaurants and cafes are closing down in Russia at the fastest pace since the start of the war in Ukraine four years ago as consumption stalls even in affluent Moscow.
The closures, visible on streets from the capital to Vladivostok 6,500 km (4,000 miles) east on the Pacific Ocean, point to a significant slowdown in Russia's $2.8 trillion economy, which has so far proved surprisingly resilient in the face of stringent Western sanctions.

At the BonCafe bakery in southwestern Moscow, the shelves are empty of cakes and pastries, the espresso machine is silent and owner Yekaterina Oreshkina, 39, sits amid the dust and regret of a failed business.
"When we opened, we didn't expect such a downturn," Oreshkina, who owns a chain of such cafes, told Reuters over the mosaic-topped tables her children helped to decorate.
For Oreshkina, the traditionally slow January proved the final straw after costs ballooned due to the combination of a 50% rise in ingredient prices, high rent and higher taxes. She closed the bakery but has kept her other cafes open.

Their signature "Napoleon" cake, said to be named after the French emperor who invaded Russia in 1812, is a decadent mille-feuille dessert of multiple puff-pastry and cream layers that costs 2,850 roubles ($37) per kg, or 300 roubles ($4) a slice.
Many Russians, though, are cutting back on discretionary spending - particularly on expensive eating out - at the fastest rate since the shock of the February 2022 invasion.

RUSSIANS TIGHTEN BELTS
Guided by President Vladimir Putin's crack team of economic officials, Russia has reported better average growth than the euro zone over the past four years despite being hit by some 24,000 Western sanctions.
But high interest rates, higher taxes, rising prices and a $20-per-barrel discount for Russian oil are taking their toll - even in Moscow, a vast urban area of 22 million people that has been largely insulated from the worst impact of Europe's deadliest war since World War Two.

"To let" signs are prominent in retail spaces across the capital. Sales of new light commercial vehicles and trucks, a good indicator for the health of the retail and construction industry, fell by 38% to 147,000 units in 2025 and have continued to fall in the first weeks of 2026, Autostat said.
Data from Sberbank, which as Russia's biggest bank sees the ripples of expenditure across the economy, showed that the fall in the number of catering outlets in January was the biggest since 2021 and that restaurant spending hit the lowest in three years in November-early December 2025.

The change is especially striking as major Russian cities saw a restaurant boom before the pandemic, and some politicians bridled at what they saw as Moscow's "decadent frivolity" while soldiers were being killed or injured at the front.
Overall, real consumer spending growth fell to zero in February for the first time in two years, Sberbank data showed. Russia forecasts economic growth of 1.3% this year after 1% in 2025, 4.9% in 2024 and 4.1% in 2023. The International Monetary Fund forecasts 0.8% growth for 2026.

Across Russia's 11 time zones, central bank research showed, people are seeking cheaper options: fast-food or supermarket meals instead of restaurants, discounted food in supermarkets, repairs of cars rather than new purchases, and a cooling housing market.
"Cafe and restaurant closures increased in the capital in 2025 compared to 2024, while the number of takeaway coffee outlets continues to grow," the central bank said.


WAR ECONOMY
Russian sources say that while there are certainly problems in the economy, it is still performing remarkably well and they dismiss suggestions of its demise as premature. Besides, Putin is unlikely to change course on Ukraine due to restaurants shutting their doors, they said.
Nevertheless, Putin earlier this month told top economic officials to restore the growth rate and urged them not to simply monitor prices. Just 10 days later, the central bank cut rates by 50 basis points to 15.5%.

Olga Belenkaya, head of the department of macroeconomic analysis at FG Finam, a leading Moscow financial services company, said state statistics showed Russians were saving more and paying off mortgage debt, especially as money became so expensive after the central bank hiked rates to 21% in 2024.
Borrowing costs - advertised by major banks at about 18-19% for unsecured loans to business - have hit small businesses and consumers hard, especially after some lenders imposed stricter limits on consumer credit.

Because we are a goods-based business, we have to borrow constantly, taking on new loans and refinancing old ones," said Yelena Bannikova, the founder and owner of the "VeroVika" Korean beauty store.
"High interest rates have had a very strong impact on us. The refinancing rate is high, and refinancing has become extremely difficult, almost impossible."




https://www.reuters.com/business/russia-many-restaurants-cafes-close-consumption-stalls-amid-major-slowdown-2026-02-19/

Putin is trying to rebuild Prussia in case you don't know.

Peolpe like Putin,Hitler, Trump, Wallace, moghabe, mubutu, idi amin and kin Jong un have one thing in common the are liars and power drunk.

But truth, love, compassion, humanity and faith has and will put them in the pit of history.

brain54:
So what is your point exactly...?


Did you expect Putin to sit and fold his hands and not defend his country while the west played games and run all over his country by making expansions inwards towards his country s border?



Putin has managed and done well with Russian economy so far even with more than 4 years of war with Ukraine.




War is necessary sometimes and even the Bible says they is a time for peace and there is a time for war!

This is scary. Where is that guy that keep posting Russia this Russian that. I hope he is reading this.

Putin will leave Russians broke and hungry.

God bless Ukraine,
God bless the people supporting her.

Life is becoming more expensive," complains Alexander, a Moscow-based advertising specialist who works for a big corporation.

In the course of one month his monthly food budget soared by more than 22% - from 35,000 roubles (£330; $450) to 43,000 (£406; $555).

With Russia's economy hanging somewhere between stagnation and decline, ordinary Russians have begun to feel the pinch from the Kremlin's war on Ukraine, as it approaches its fourth anniversary.

The cost of almost all essentials has gone up in local supermarkets, from eggs and chicken fillets to seasonal vegetables, Alexander has noticed. We have changed the names of everyone we have spoken to for this piece.

Even his daily treat on the way to work - an Americano from a local cafe - has suddenly surged 26% from 230 to 290 roubles.

Prices have risen steadily in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, driven by a federal budget dominated by the war effort and defence industry.

This in turn has led to rapid economic growth and raised living standards across the country.

Until now, high levels of inflation have gone largely unnoticed by the general population, especially in the big cities such as Moscow and St Petersburg. Big spending masked the mounting economic consequences of the war, as well as Western sanctions and the exodus of foreign investment from Russia.

That rapid economic growth slowed sharply in 2025, and as salaries could no longer keep up with inflation, rising prices started to hit people's pockets.

Then at the start of 2026, supermarket prices jumped by a sharp 2.3% in less than a month, according to data from Russia's statistics service Rosstat.

Everything became more expensive at the start of the year: meat, milk, salt, flour, potatoes, pasta, bananas, soap, toothpaste, socks, laundry detergent, and many medicines too.

Average food basket
Every other January since 2019, the BBC has bought the same selection of 59 basic goods from the same supermarket chain, Pyaterochka, in Moscow. The basket includes vegetables and fruits, dairy and meat products, canned goods and instant noodles, sweets and beverages, including beer.

In 2024, the basket cost 7,358 roubles (£63; $83). Last month, it cost 8,724 (£83; $112) roubles - an increase of 18.6%.

That tallies with Rosstat's own 18.1% measure of overall accumulated food inflation from January 2024 to the end of January 2026.





https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mjrgkk1m8o

My argument is most Nigeria youth don't see a future in science.

You mentioned brasil and football. But you forgot that brasil is a giant when it comes to science.

Brasil is the manufacturer of Embraer aeroplanes that is what most countries in the world are buying to avoid boeing drama.

Brasil have mastered the act in balancing sports, music and entertainment.

Nigeria is just a giant for nothing.

femi4:
You are offpoint

You want to use entertainment as a tool to develop Science n Tech

Is like saying how has Football helped Brazil in developing their economy / improve in science n tech

These are two parallel lines

Like Asake built for his father abi.

MIKOLOWISKA:
They built houses at home
And it helped the musician and his family and friends
At all at all na In bad pass

My taughts actually.

GlozzLab:
Afrobeat has not help Nigeria and Africa in any way. It has not added anything valuable to Nigeria. It only benefits the singer and the producer.

But they are self-reliant.. If there's a race war all these countries you mentioned can stand alone.

Then Africans will rely on what.

bmd1010:
china like Korea n Japan have kpop

My dear in the years to come the world will be so polarised only what you can do a take you through.

Africans lay emphasis on entertainment and this development is costing blacks their dignity.

OneCandleAway:
That's because Africans are better in the heart. Singing, dancing and sports that is strength

Till today I don't know how Afrobeats has helped the Nigerian course.

Many of the so called artist travel abroad to live life
They come back to collect extionist fee for a show then travel back

China don't have Afrobeats, nobody is streaming their music but their solid science back ground has set them apart from their peers.

Though Rema is just a happy go lucky, he hasn't been tested.

I wish him well

American music publication Billboard has come under fire after resharing an article that classified Nigerian Afrobeats star Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, as a “one-hit wonder.”

The post, shared Sunday on the magazine’s official X account, referenced a June 2025 ranking titled “The 25 Biggest One-Hit Wonders of the 21st Century,” where Rema was placed at No. 6 based on the U.S. chart performance of his 2022 global smash hit Calm Down, particularly its remix featuring American pop star Selena Gomez.

“‎After releasing the original “lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-wo-wo-wo-wo”-ing version of “Calm Down” in 2023, Nigeria’s Rema noticed it breaking on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart.

He took a swing and recruited Gomez for the female vocal and, shockingly, she agreed. “I had my fingers crossed,” he told Billboard,” the article reads.


According to Billboard, while the original version of Calm Down gained traction on the U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, the remix propelled it into mainstream success, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The publication noted that although Rema has since recorded six top-10 entries on the U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart as of June 7, 2025, he has not returned to the Hot 100.

The No. 3-peaking ‘Calm Down’ was obviously not veteran pop superstar Gomez’s only hit, but Rema has yet to make it to the Hot 100 again, although he has landed six top 10s on U.S. Afrobeats Songs, through the June 7, 2025, chart.”


The ranking quickly sparked debate online, with critics arguing that the label fails to reflect Rema’s broader international success. Many pointed to his extensive catalogue, including tracks such as Dumebi, Iron Man, and Woman, as well as his debut album Rave & Roses, which reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. Supporters also highlighted his global tours, festival appearances at events like Coachella and Wireless Festival, and collaborations with artists such as Chris Brown and 6lack.

Others, however, defended Billboard’s rankings, noting that the classification appears to be strictly based on performance within the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, rather than global streaming numbers or international chart achievements.

The renewed attention has reignited discussions about the limitations of U.S.-centric metrics in measuring the global reach of Afrobeats, a genre that has expanded significantly beyond American chart frameworks in recent years.

Rema has not publicly responded to the ranking as of press time


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/02/billboard-labels-rema-a-one-hit-wonder-faces-backlash/

Fayose where is Bob risky
Talking with both side of his mouth.

Nigerias first runs lady doing her choir. I won't blame her.