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He's gone to beg, borrow and bullshiit?

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We never finish chop his moni finish........he wan loose another fortune?

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I don't think is kidnap.......something else is going on

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Senior ashawo.......who you steal from/fck up this time?

Nigeria is cursed with bad leaders!

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For 12 years Didier Ndabahariye has been ferrying passengers around the streets of Kigali - one of the thousands of motorbike taxi drivers, known locally as motos.

Recently, he switched his usual ride for getting around Rwanda's capital for one of the first electric motorbikes on the African continent.

"In the first days, things were not good because I was not used to riding e-motos and the bike sometimes cut-off.

"However I went on working, and soon I knew many things about how the bike works and how to ride it. Then I started saving more money," Didier explains.

He is one of 60 drivers riding an electric motorbike from the Rwandan firm Ampersand.

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"Now I like the bikes - an e-moto can last for a long time without any problems unlike with an engine motor - and it goes well, it is very smooth to ride."

The start-up Ampersand is pioneering the switch and hopes that over the next five years almost all of Rwanda's motorbikes will be electric.

It is an ambitious dream - there are around 25,000 motorbike taxis operating in Kigali, some driving up to 10 hours a day, often covering hundreds of kilometres daily.

"Motorbikes make up more than half of all vehicles in this part of the world," says Ampersand chief executive Josh Whale.

"Their simple engines lack the sort of costly emissions reduction tech that you see in modern cars, or in motorbikes in the global north. Meanwhile they are being run for over 100km per day, so that's a lot of pollution, a lot of carbon [dioxide].

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In Rwanda, drivers spend more in a year on petrol than the cost of a new motorbike. We've shown that we can offer an alternative in the same style as their current motorbike [that] costs less to buy, less to power and less to maintain."

Ampersand says that savings on fuel and maintenance can double a driver's income.

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With an estimated five million motorbikes on the roads of East Africa, there could be big savings in CO2 emissions if Ampersand and its rivals take a significant share of the market.

Ampersand is more than just a technology platform. It assembles the motorbikes, the batteries and has set up charging stations.

Each motorbike has around 150 parts, which are assembled in Kigali. Particularly importantly, the battery packs are specially designed and prototyped by Ampersand engineers in Rwanda. They are then manufactured abroad and shipped back to Rwanda for final assembly by local technicians.

Ampersand currently has 73 employees at its Rwandan motorcycle factory and is moving to a new facility this month as production grows.

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"For the time being we also happen to be a motorbike company, with spare parts and maintenance too. However we'd be glad to work with the big existing petrol motorbike manufacturers on the vehicle side of things.

"We are still small and we want to move fast - as the climate crisis demands - and do some hard things quickly. So we're very happy to team up with big existing players where we can," Mr Whale says.

The company has set up battery swap stations - where drivers exchange their depleted batteries for recharged ones - with five already in operation around Kigali.

Each swap station costs around $5,000 (£3,700) - and the firm says it can build about 20 swap stations for the price of one conventional petrol station.

Rwanda's government has a large role to play in moving to e-transportation, balancing the pros and cons of e-mobility. There will be a loss of fuel tax revenue - but the benefits include a shift to locally produced power sources, lower fuel importation costs and job creation if assembly takes place locally.

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The country has pioneered a range of incentives to encourage e-mobility.

This includes capped electricity tariffs for charging stations and rent-free land for them, preferential parking and travel lanes for electric vehicles around Kigali, and restrictions on the ages and emissions of polluting vehicles.

Established transport companies are also showing willingness to contribute to e-mobility efforts.

In Rwanda, Volkswagen has been conducting an e-mobility pilot project since 2019 in partnership with Siemens, which has seen it launch 20 electric Golfs and two charging stations in Kigali.

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Volkswagen says the country has the potential to leapfrog internal combustion engines to electric cars.

"Together with our development partner Siemens and with support from the government of Rwanda, Volkswagen aims to make the e-Golf pilot project a blueprint for electric mobility in Africa," says Andile Dlamini, of Volkswagen Group South Africa.

For Ampersand, Rwanda has only been the first step in Africa, with the company currently launching in neighbouring Kenya and other countries shortly afterwards.

While there are challenges to rolling out electric vehicles across Africa - such as a shortage of specialised skills, the reticence of venture capital investors and disrupted supply chains - Mr Whale argues that the continent can be a leader in a global shift to e-mobility.

The amount of working capital required is "easily realistic", he says, and could be put up by world governments to speed up roll out.

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"We hope we can show that the electric age is here - for everyone - and clean mobility isn't something that's just going to trickle down to the global south in a second-hand manner, decades from now. Rather that it's cost-effective, fundable, investable - now."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58820548

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The United Kingdom has commended the performance of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the recently concluded 2021 Anambra Governorship Election.

They said the results released by the electoral body are consistent with the results obtained through the civil society parallel vote tabulation process carried out by YIAGA Africa. The British Government also congratulated the winner of the November 6 Anambra state governorship election, Professor Charles Soludo, as declared by INEC.

This was made known in a statement titled, ‘UK Statement on Anambra Governorship Election,’ shared on the @UKinNigeria social media handle on Thursday.

What the UK Government is saying about the Anambra State Governorship election
The statement from the UK reads, “We offer our congratulations to Prof. Charles Soludo who has been declared winner of the Anambra State governorship election. We note that the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission are consistent with the results obtained through the civil society Parallel Vote Tabulation process carried out by YIAGA Africa.

“Our mission, which observed the preparations for the poll, acknowledges the collective effort of stakeholders in the conduct of the election. The people of Anambra have demonstrated resilience and a commitment to democracy.

“We recognise that independent Nigerian voices have expressed concerns about the conduct of the electoral process, in particular around logistics, accreditation of voters, deployment of polling officials, and low voter turnout. The UK is encouraged by the use and transparency of INEC’s result viewing portal in the electoral process.

“We encourage any party or individual who is dissatisfied with the process to seek redress in a peaceful manner and through the appropriate legal channels.

“As a long-standing partner of the Nigerian people, the UK will continue to support Nigeria and its civil society in drawing lessons from these elections and the deepening of its democracy, including the integrity of its elections.”

Speaking after the election, the British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing, said, “Credible and inclusive elections are fundamental to Nigeria’s democratic growth. I encourage INEC and all stakeholders to continue improving the electoral system and to ensure meaningful participation of young people, women and citizens generally in the democratic process.”

In case you missed it
Recall that on November 10, 2021, INEC declared, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Professor Charles Soludo, as the winner of the Anambra state governorship election.

Soludo was declared the winner by the Chief Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the poll, early on Wednesday morning, having secured the most votes from the election which began on Saturday, November 6, 2021, and was concluded on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.

The congratulatory message from the UK government is a continuation of a series of congratulatory messages that have been pouring in for the incoming Governor.

https://nairametrics.com/2021/11/11/uk-commends-inec-on-anambra-election-congratulates-the-winner-charles-soludo/

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Senator Andy Uba, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s Anambra State governorship election, has rejected the outcome of the polls citing irregularities.

Uba who came third in the election behind the winner, Charles Soludo of APGA and Valentine Ozigbo of PDP who came second, said this in a statement titled, ‘Senator Andy Uba Rejects the outcome of Anambra Governorship Election,’ signed by the Spokesman for his campaign organisation, Jerry Ugokwe, on Thursday.

He described the results as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission “as a charade” which was not reflective of the wishes and aspirations of the people of the state.

“Our popular candidate, Senator Andy Uba is a victim of widespread electoral fraud and manipulation by INEC in cohorts with the Willie Obiano Regime and the security forces deployed to oversee the Anambra State Governorship Election,” the statement said.

“The elections were characterised by widespread irregularities, intimidation and voter suppression in order to clear the path for the inglorious ‘victory’ of APGA in the polls.

“For instance, in polling units where the Biometric Voters’ Accreditation System malfunctioned, INEC went ahead to conduct the elections manually. There were numerous cases where votes announced by INEC exceeded the number of accredited voters in polling units.

“Another clear manifestation of collusion between the Obiano Administration and INEC was the publishing of results on the Social Media handles of APGA even before official announcement by INEC. Yet mysteriously, the votes announced in advance by APGA always corresponded correctly with the official figures released by INEC.

“It is inconceivable that our candidate, who polled over 200,000 votes in the APC primary election would be allocated slightly above 43,000 votes by INEC.

“It is surprising that APGA that lost almost 80 per cent of its stalwarts through defection to the APC before the election came out ‘victorious’. A sitting APGA Deputy Governor, seven members of the House of Representatives, 10 members of the Anambra State House of Assembly, the APGA party’s member of Board of Trustees, many serving SA’s, SSA’s, in addition to a serving PDP Senator all defected to the APC very timely before the election, yet APGA emerged ‘victorious’. This is quite ridiculous.”

The organisation vowed to pursue its “stolen mandate” to the limits allowed by the law of the land.

Meanwhile, both Ozigbo and Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, YPP candidate who came fourth in the election have conceded defeat and congratulated Soludo on his victory.

https://hallmarknews.com/i-was-rigged-out-andy-uba-rejects-outcome-of-anambra-election-to-proceed-to-court/

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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said Africa’s proven oil reserves reached 126 billion barrels in 2019, with Nigeria having 36.9bn, which is about 29 per cent of the continent’s total reserves.

OPEC Secretary General, Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, stated this at the African Energy Week (AEW) 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa, where he also spoke about a bright look for Africa.

“Africa’s potential refining capacity is expected to start increasing in 2022 at just below 0.4 million barrels per day (mb/d0, before reaching just above 1mb/d in 2026. Many of these projects will involve petrochemical integration.”

With over 36.9bn barrels of oil and 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, Nigeria has emerged as one of Africa’s biggest energy sectors, attracting significant levels of investment and driving project developments across the entire energy value chain.

Through a complete sectoral restructuring, and by capitalizing on progressive legislature and national energy policies to accelerate investment post-COVID-19, Nigeria has made a strong case for investment especially with the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) signed in July 2021.

Speaking during the Nigeria country spotlight session at the event, Governor of OPEC for Nigeria, Dr Adedapo Odulaja, said, “It is not that the PIA will be a game-changer, it is already a game-changer and the game is already changing. In the weeks to come, everyone will see this. A lot of investors and people who want to invest in the industry are already looking critical and taking more of an interest in it.”

https://dailytrust.com/nigeria-holds-29-africas-total-oil-reserve-opec

Mokason288:
That still doesn’t mean that the election was freeeeeee and fair

Election in Nigeria is a question of who rigged the election the most

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INEC childrens abroad.....

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PrinceOfLagos:
I saw this picture of the governor elect of Anambra state , professor , Chukwuma Charles soludo, this evening and I must say that I've found love .

I've never fallen in love with any woman before like I've fll in love with this girl in my 27yrs of existence.

I wished I've met her before her new status .. I'm in love .

Paedo....

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Dangote should.......


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....go to hell.

Who him epp?

Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo was born on 28th July, 1960, and hails from Isuofia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. After his secondary school education, he proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he graduated with a first class degree in Economics. He also undertook his post-graduate and doctorate degrees in Economics from the same University winning on both occasions, the prize for the best graduating student.

Professor Soludo had cumulative four years of post-doctoral training in some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including: The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; University of Cambridge, UK, as Smuts Research Fellow and Fellow of the Wolfson College; the UN Economic Commission for Africa as a Post-Doctoral Fellow; University of Warwick as a Visiting scholar and Visiting Research Scholar at Center for African Economies, University of Oxford (with funding by the Rhodes committee). He also attended over a dozen specialized courses and has had extensive research, teaching and consultancy works in different areas of economics.

He has worked at the World Bank both as a short and long-term consultant since 1993 and also at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa. He was a consultant to UNCTAD; European Union (EU); Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); United Nations (UN) New York; United States Agency for International Development (USAID); African Development Bank (ADB); Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA); African Union (AU); International Development Research Council (IDRC) Canada; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); among others.

Professor Soludo has served as Senior Technical Advisor/Consultant as well as a Visiting Scholar at the IMF since 1994, and also taught IMF’s Financial Programming and Policy course to senior staff of Central Banks in West Africa and other developing regions. He has served as: Member, Technical Committees that drafted economic and trade policies for the Federal Government of Nigeria; and Executive Director of the African Institute for Applied Economics (AlAE).

Professor Soludo joined the Federal Government of Nigeria in July 2003 as the Economic Adviser to President Obasanjo and the Chief Executive of the National Planning Commission (NPC). Among other accomplishments during the 10 months in office, he was the Chairman/Coordinator of the team that drafted Nigeria’s economic and social reform program (2003-2007), the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS), and also pioneered the collaborative planning framework in the Nigerian federation by initiating and assisting state governments in designing their State Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (SEEDS).
As Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria since May, 2004, Prof. Soludo has refocused the Central Bank as an effective monetary authority and successfully implemented a fundamental restructuring which has led to unprecedented consolidation of the Nigerian banking system.

On account of this, the Nigerian banking system has been rated the fastest growing in Africa and one of the fastest growing in the world. He has also championed the establishment of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a continental, private -sector driven, investment bank. He is promoting the Financial System Strategy 2020 (FSS 2020), the blue-print to grow Nigeria’s financial system to become Africa’s financial hub and to drive the Nigerian economy into the global league of top 20 economies by 2020. For his achievements, Professor Soludo is the recipient of scores of awards and recognitions from civil society organizations; NGOs; private sector organizations; religious groups; the Press; professional associations; student unions; universities; among others. The Financial Times of London has described him as Ita Great Reformer’. He is the winner of the ‘Global and African Central Bank Governor of the Year, in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by different international media institutions including The Banker Magazine published by the Financial Times of London.

He is currently a Member of the International Advisory Group for the UK-DFID; a member of the Chief Economist Advisory Council of the World Bank and the International Advisory Group of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). He is also a member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a global network of more than 200 leading economists, political scientists, and practitioners to help developing countries explore policy alternatives, and enable wider civic participation in economic policymaking. He holds Nigeria’s third highest national honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN); Fellow of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) and has been awarded D.SC (Honoris Causa) by the University of Calabar and also by the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi.

Professor Soludo is married to Nonye and blessed with children.

https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2021/11/10/facts-on-charles-soludo/

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Nigeria has been sold - Final!

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No need for thanks,,,,,,b'cos,

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Neither......give me the 250k to remain in the village

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