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Good riddance......

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....another expensive flop!

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N.o

E.ndorse

C.ompletely

FIRE has engulfed the New Idumagbo Injection Power Sub-Station at Adeniji Adele Phase 2, Lagos.
The ICIR gathered that the fire incident was reported at about 2:42pm as the necessary authorities battled the fire, stopping it from spreading.

A statement signed by the Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, said the fire fighting efforts were supported by the Federal Fire Service, the Nigeria Police and the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency.


The statement informed the genral public that an investigation was being done to unravel the cause of the fire, adding that an update would be made available as the situation demands.

It also stated that there was no casualty in the incident.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/fire-engulfs-lagos-power-station/

Pepe soup things....

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Some oil production now shifted to Niger!

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They think we are stupid......

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A.nother

P.olitician

C.anned

I thought Buhari said we would plant 2 billion tree's a month?

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Prof. Chuwumerije Okereke, Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi State, says climate change will cost Nigeria $460 billion by 2050 if action is not taken to mitigate its effects.

Okereke made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the ninth international Lagos Climate Change Summit in Lagos.

”Climate change is costing Nigeria already $100 billion per annum. And that this amount will rise to about $460 billion per annum by 2050.

“And this represents a huge amount of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

“From 2020 till now, climate change is already costing N15 trillion, representing two to 11 per cent of the GDP, by 2050 climate change will be costing N69 trillion, representing six to 30 per cent of the GDP,” Okereke said.

The expert, who is also a visiting professor to Oxford University, said that climate change was already having untold effect on flooding and rising sea levels in the country.

According to Okereke, flooding is already affecting 25 million people in Nigeria.

“In Yenegoa, there are 302,782 people estimated to be exposed to high flood risk along the Niger-Benue basin in the Niger Delta area with 630km of land susceptible to flooding.

“In Lagos, 375,000 people are exposed to flooding; the number will increase to about 3.2 million people by 2050.

“The direct estimate of damage and loss is N1.48 trillion. The total damage and loss, including indirect ones due to flooding is about N2.6 trillion,” Okereke said.

He said that with the rise in sea level, an estimated 27 to 53 million people in the country might need to be relocated with a 0.5m increase in sea levels.

Okereke said that coastal settlements like Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Warri and Calabar were at risk with vast amount of oil infrastructure.

He noted that the country had mapped out a lot of interesting policies to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Okereke listed the policies as long-term sustainability plan to achieve a net zero emission target by 2060 and determined contribution to aggressively embark on actions to mitigate the impact change.

“All these are very fascinating, interesting policies.

“However, the action on the ground does not come anywhere near what is needed to arrest the situation to address the impact of climate change and to also reduce emissions from economic wide activity.

“So, we have a situation where we have a lot of various policies, documents, but very limited action on the ground and this worries me because I have been shouting that climate change poses an existential threat to Nigeria,” Okereke said.

He urged the government to match action with the right policies to achieved the desired result.

“We need to inject a lot of finance and a lot of action to stem the problem of climate change,” Okereke said.

He noted that the impact of climate change on our agricultural system was extremely high.

Okereke said that many Nigerians engage in one kind of agricultural activity or the other and agriculture constitutes about 26 per cent of the nation’s GDP.

“With climate change, you will have drought and it will affect different crops and impose even stronger, negative implications on food security system in the country.

“I have also argued that the depletion of the groundwater around the country caused by climate change and movement of people from the north to the south thereby fuelling insecurity.

“So, you have desertification in the north, flooding in the West, you have erosion in the east and deforestation in the south.

And all of these things are threatening the existence and the wellbeing of millions of Nigerians,” Okereke said.

https://guardian.ng/news/climate-change-to-cost-nigeria-460bn-by-2050-expert/

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He has felt the wetness.

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As watchers call for urgent structural engineering audit of all flyovers built by the company so far, there was palpable fear among the residents of Port Harcourt over the weekend when the Rumuokwurusi flyover being constructed by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc partially collapsed, causing panic.

The flyover which is the 10th awarded to the engineering construction company last February 28, by the state government, was due for opening in a matter of days.

According to some eye witnesses, the incident happened when one of the beams of the bridge still under construction fell off.

Some other watchers said a machinery operator accidentally knocked off the beam “while doing some work,” causing it to fall off.

Meanwhile, watchers of the development have called for urgent audit of all the flyover bridges constructed by Julius Berger Nigeria in the state as well as the ongoing ones to forestall any unforeseen incident.

According to Leo Ndubisi, a resident of Elimgbu Street in the area, “Thank God no life was lost, and no injury too. But there is now need for every flyover constructed by Julius Berger and the new ones to be audited for any structural engineering defect or threat.”

https://www.blueprint.ng/anxiety-as-julius-berger-bridge-collapses/

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Speeding?

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...and they are 'Jagabandits'

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Balogun, who was convicted in 2005 on eight charges of corruption, had his corruption case reopened in 2020.

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R.ogue

I.nspector

P.asses

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Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has asked Google to bar proscribed groups from accessing platforms such as YouTube.

The minister said this on Thursday when he received a team from Google in Abuja.

He said the federal government and Google share the same concerns on the responsible use of social media, adding that Nigeria has over 100 million internet users who are among the most vibrant in the world.

“We want Google to look into how to tackle the use of private and unlisted YouTube channels and YouTube livestreams by proscribed groups
and terrorist organisations,” Mohammed said.

“Channels and emails containing names of proscribed groups and their affiliates should not be allowed on Google platforms.”

He also spoke on the code of regulations recently unveiled by the federal government, adding that it is part of efforts to provide a framework for responsible use of social media platforms.

“This code couldn’t have come at a better time, as the country prepares for general election next year,” he said.

“We are committed to working with platforms like yours, as well as the civil society, lawyers, media practitioners and other relevant stakeholders to ensure responsible use of the internet and to protect our people from the harmful effects of social media.”

In his remarks, Charles Murito, Google regional director, Sub-Saharan Africa, government affairs and public policy, said the platform has introduced a programme called ‘Trusted Flaggers’ for citizens trained to track and engage with online contents in order to flag contents of serious concern.

“As I mentioned earlier, we share the same sentiments, we share the same goals and objectives, and we do not want our platform to be used
for ill purposes,” Murito said.

https://www.thecable.ng/lai-meets-google-in-abuja-seeks-ban-of-proscribed-groups-from-youtube

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....Efulefu;s

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Innocent Nnamdi.....

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No new yam this year for him......

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Take a 2nd wife na....


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.....your mumu never do?

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