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Eritrean men have been asked by the government to marry more than one wife or risk being jailed for life.

This is contained in a statement in Arabic by the Grand Mufti (the highest official of religious law in the country) which scanned copy surfaced on social media sites on Thursday last week.

In the statement, Eritrea called for all men in the country to marry at least two wives and the government assured the men that it would pay for the marriage ceremonies and houses.



According to the government, the order is because there is an acute shortage of men occasioned by causalities during the civil war with Ethiopia.

Afkinsider.com said the document, which could not be independently verified, warned that any man or woman who opposes the decision “will face a life sentence”.

TheThe document in Arabic, which is in Arabic, says, “Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following:

“First that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour.

“The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment.”

More than 150,000 Eritrean soldiers were killed during the secession war from Ethiopia between 1998 and 2000. At the time Eritrea had about four million people.

Eritrea, is a country in theHorn of Africa. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea, across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The nation has a total area of approximately 117,600 km, and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. Its name Eritrea is based on the Greek name for the Red Sea, which was first adopted for Italian Eritrea in 1890.

The country ranks that worst (189 out of 189) on the World Bank’s ease-of-doing-business index.


Source : http://www.punchng.com/eritrea-orders-men-to-marry-two-wives-or-be-jailed/

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The global oil price rout has taken a toll on indigenous oil producing firms in Nigeria as they have now penciled down over 3,000 staff for sack. New Telegraph gathered exclusively at the weekend that the companies that are struggling to break even now face tough time due to the collapse in oil price.

One of the indigenous firms, Shoreline Group, an industry source told this newspaper, has concluded plans to sack about 700 of its staff in its attempt to reduce overhead and be able to survive the “tough” condition.

“You are likely to see fresh talks on merger among the indigenous companies that are not ready to die. While some of them are under the threat of folding up if this very low oil price regime continues, many of them are already considering merger,” he said. Shoreline has about 2,000 staff on its payroll and chief executive officer of the company, Kola Karim, confirmed the plans to sack 35 per cent of its staff, maintaining that his company had also halted plans to issue $500 million of Eurobonds.

In the middle of last year, Shoreline’s executives went on a two-week roadshow in the US and Middle East to discuss a debut issue of five-to seven-year debt to buy oil and gas assets across Africa. Now with Brent crude trading below $30 a barrel and Nigeria’s central bank imposing restrictions on the amount of dollars that businesses can obtain, Shoreline plans to cut 35 per cent of its nearly 2,000 staff to survive the “tough” conditions, Karim, 47, said in a January 19 interview in his office in Lagos.

“We went on a roadshow and the world of oil collapsed,” he said. “We’re going to wait until end of first quarter and see how stable markets are. Midlast year, our projections were $60-dollar oil for the next five years,” he said. Founded in 1997, Shoreline is one of several local businesses that bought fields in the oil-rich Niger River delta region after foreign companies, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA and Eni SpA, sold onshore assets. With oil’s plunge, Karim said Shoreline is reducing production to 17,000 barrels per day for the rest of the year from 52,000 barrels per day.

Shoreline has seen its other businesses that range from construction to rope making come under pressure from foreignexchange restrictions. Efforts by the central bank to stem the fall of the local currency have led to trading curbs, causing a shortage of dollars in a country that imports almost all manufactured goods, hurting businesses and sending the unofficial naira market rate soaring to a record 305 per dollar.

Karim said he is switching Shoreline’s focus instead to gas production and distribution within Lagos, as it costs the company over $20 to produce a barrel of oil. Brent crude, which compares with Nigerian oil grades, traded at $27.61 per barrel as of 7:47 a.m. in London.

 

With a government-mandated price of $3.69 per standard cubic foot of gas to encourage local producers to sell to Nigerian consumers such as power plants, Shoreline is in talks with the African Finance Corp., African Development Bank and Af-rican Export-Import Bank to get them to lend $500 million to finance the projects, which include 125 kilometers (78 miles) of pipeline. “That is a local business that’s tied to dollars, but is not fluctuating,” Karim said.

“More importantly, there’s no downside to it because the country needs gas to energize its growth, so that’s a secure business.” This came as Chevron Corporation said it was considering selling its 75 per cent stake in its South African unit.

Chevron has made a decision to solicit expressions of interest for the stake, a sale that would form part of a three-year asset divestment programme announced in 2014, the San Ramon, Californiabased company said in an e-mailed statement on Thursday.

“This demonstrates Chevron’s continuing focus on balancing our global portfolio with our long-term business priorities,” Mark Nelson, Chevron’s president of international products, said in the statement. Chevron’s South African unit operates a 110,000-barrel- a-day refinery in Cape Town, a lubricant plant in the eastern port city of Durban and markets its products through over 845 Caltex filling stations, according to its website.

Source : .http://newtelegraphonline.com/indigenous-oil-firms-sack-3000/

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With only seven days in office, Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada yesterday commissioned an ultra modern motor park with a space capacity for 10,000 passengers. He, arguably, described it as the largest park in West Africa.
The visiting Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, commissioned the motor park. Wada said the park was built with N1.6 billion.
Commissioning the ultra modern motor park, Mimiko decried the level of accidents in the country and stated that the physiological appearance of some of the motor parks in the country were largely responsible for some of road crashes but noted that the Lokoja mega motor park was one built to save lives.
The Ondo State governor pointed out that between 2012 and 2014, Nigeria witnessed 30,532, which involved 132,794 passengers while 16,703 persons died.
He commended the Kogi State Government for keying into the model concept, saying the mega terminal was a masterpiece that will touch the lives of people of Kogi State.
In his address, Wada explained that the concept behind the ultra modern mega terminal was aimed at generating revenue for the state, as well for the security of lives and property of passengers as well as create employment opportunities for the people of the state.
He disclosed that the state government has handed over the management of the facility of the park to a private company known as AIL, and urged them to handle it properly
Wada assured there would be adequate security around the terminal.

Source : http://sunnewsonline.com/new/7-days-to-go-wada-commissions-n1-6bn-motor-park-in-kogi/

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Lassa Fe­ver virus has spread to 17 States of the federation and claimed 76 lives, the Federal Government has said.

The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, who dis­closed this on Tuesday, de­scribed the outbreak of Lassa Fever as a “national embar­rassment”.

He therefore appealed to health practitioners in the 36 states of the federation not to hide any case from their gov­ernors and other leaders.

Adewole spoke in Abu­ja at the Emergency Nation­al Council on Health meeting with States’ Commissioners for Health and other stake­holders in the sector.

He said that so far, the Las­sa Fever virus had spread to 64 local government areas in 17 states, while 212 suspected cases had been recorded.

The meeting, according to the minister, is to facilitate dis­cussion on the control of the outbreak, develop strategies of prevention and management of all cases in the country.

The minister said: “There is a high level of denial and a conspiracy of silence in some states. I think people take de­light in saying we have no case and to me that is not the issue.

“In fact, if you are able to pick a suspicious case, to me that is the issue because that goes to tell us that the surveil­lance system is working.

“We also want to alert all health professionals in the country that they should re­port any case to the appro­priate authorities. I have de­scribed the outbreaks as a national embarrassment. We can manage the embarrass­ment, but when we allow an­other outbreak to occur in Au­gust this year, it will become a national shame to all of us. One of the things we will do is to stamp out Lassa Fever.

“Seventeen states have been affected across the country, it has affected 64 local govern­ments across the country and we have been able to pick 212 suspected cases. It dates back from August last year, not just this year. It is better to over-count suspected cases than to undercount.

“The real hotspots are Ni­ger, Bauchi, Taraba, Kano, Edo, Nasarawa, Plateau and Rivers, but for us to be honest with ourselves, all states should con­sider themselves at risk and put up measures to contain, pre­vent and reassure their com­munities that we are on top of the situation,” Adewole said.


Source :http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/lassa-fever-spreads-to-17-states-in-64-lgas-claims-76-people-212-suspected-cases/

NNPC stops pumping crude to Kaduna, Warri refineries


Chineme Okafor in Abuja with agency report

As security agencies intensify their search for the culprits behind the act, it has been established that the weekend’s attack on the Nigeria Gas Company’s pipeline connected to Chevron Nigeria Limited’s facility at Escravos, will impact negatively on the Olorunsogo power plant with a of capacity 600megawatts, and other power plants in the country.


The attack on the pipeline has equally prevented the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) from pumping crude oil to two of its four refineries in Kaduna and Warri.


The sabotaged gas pipeline which contributes to the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS), according to a statement signed by Hakeem Bello, the Special Adviser, Communication to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has led to a loss of 160mmsfcd of gas daily.


At a cost of $2.50 per thousand scf, this loss means about $400,000 loss to the country on a daily basis (N78,800,000 daily) in gas volume.


This is in addition to losses to be incurred daily from affected power generation ($1,988,223 or N391,680,000 daily).
The total daily loss to the country is therefore estimated at N470,479,931. Repairs of the damaged pipeline is estimated as costing ($609,137 or N120,000,000).


The real sector of the economy has also been counting its losses as some cement companies around Olorunsogo like Ewekoro and Ibese are also affected.


The latest incident has occurred just as the federal government through the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources along with allied agencies have been making concerted efforts to improve gas supplies to the power plants.


Such efforts led to previously offline plants like Ihovbor and Sapele coming back online and the subsequent output  making up for the loss in power.


The pipelines are being actively monitored for further attacks or other unforeseen impacts.
Available records show that six incidents of vandalism from December 2014 to February 2015 which affected the Trans Forcados Pipeline (at Oben, Sapele, Oredo) and Escravos Lagos Pipeline System (CNL) led to a loss of 1,100 MMScfd.


According to industry experts, a loss of 200 MMscfd is equivalent to a Power reduction of 700MW.
While the industry is currently generating about 4120Mwh/h on average as at Sunday, it is without doubt that performance would have been better without the additional setback caused by the weekend’s incident.


During the monthly meeting by Fashola with operators in the power sector and the  Nigeria Gas Company (NGC), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the GACN led by the Minister of State of Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, last week shared information on significant gas projects that will improve gas supply which are scheduled for completion in Q2 of 2016 and also highlighted some of the challenges especially related  to security affecting delivery of gas to the power sector.


In response to this, the NNPC is forming a committee - NNPC, police, JTF (which includes army, air force and navy) and also community vigilante groups, who have been tasked with the responsibility of securing these pipelines.


Meanwhile, spokesman of the NNPC, Ohi Alegbe,  has confirmed that the attacks on key oil installations in the Niger Delta have prevented the corporation from pumping crude oil to two of its four refineries in Kaduna and Warri
Alegbe, who spoke with Reuters, said the situation  was frustrating the government’s hopes to start weaning the country from expensive imports.


He said: “We have shut down flows for now, the military are on top of the matter.”
The 125,000 barrel per day (bpd) Warri refinery and the 110,000bpd Kaduna refinery had reportedly resumed production in December after several months of repair works.


The Kaduna refinery receives its feedstock oil through the Warri refinery.
Nigeria also has a third refining complex with two plants in Port Harcourt, although only the newer of the two plants is currently functioning.


No group claimed responsibility for the weekend attacks, which followed last week’s arrest warrant for former militant leader turned businessman, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, as part of a crackdown on corruption. Equally, several former top government officials have been charged with fraud.


Source : http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-in-the-eyes-of-trump/230826/

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