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Power supply: TCN vows to avert future system collapse ON JULY 8, 20161:00 AMIN NEWSCOMMENTS By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA—THE Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has vowed to avert future system collapse in the power sector with adequate measures put in place to enhance improved service delivery to electricity distribution companies and consumers in the country. This was stated in a communiqué by top management of TCN at the one-day management retreat, with theme, ‘’The Way Forward,” in Abuja, where vital issues affecting the sector were considered and resolutions made to tackle challenges bedevilling adequate power generation and distribution in the country. The TCN said it had the capacity to wheel maximum generation from Generating Companies, Gencos, to Distribution Companies, Discos, and would continue to work assiduously to further expand its grid capacity to ensure that it continued to surpass the generation curve. “Although the grid stability is presently impaired, due to lack of adequate generation, TCN would continue to work at averting the collapse of the system. “Three specific short term projects were identified as “quick win” projects that should be completed with the least amount of money and yet have maximum impact on the transmission network. These quick win projects would be given highest priority attention in order to improve the network and increase return on investment. “The projects include the installation of a 60MVA, 330/132/33kV power transformer at the Ife transmission Substation; installation would be completed within three months, adding 48MW to the nation’s transmission capacity. Repair and installation of 60No defective 33kV circuit breakers which would be completed within six months and on completion enhance the grid wheeling capacity with about 28,800MWH (megawatt hour),” TCN stated. Meanwhile, the company said within a period of six months, critical and international 330kV lines would be maintained to ensure system stability and revenue earnings. The company said these projects, when completed, would increase its wheeling charges by over N700 million. The management also came up with a decision to urgently empower the regions, increase their autonomy and set performance measuring parameters by introducing the Key Performance Indicators, KPI, through which they can be monitored and held accountable for any poor service delivery to the consumers. Also the company stated that a change management process would also be instituted to address staff attitude to work, remove bottlenecks in TCNs payment process, identify and close skill gaps through staff training with emphasis on on-the-job training.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/power-supply-tcn-vows-avert-future-system-collapse/

just restructure the country!
if not, you go stay here lamenting about "hate" from those frustrated by nigeria's system and instigated by those who benefit from keeping this tottering contraption.

one love

so because you see 10,000 naira solar panel,
you flew your 2 million pound jet, burnt 1 million naira fuel,
and dropped 10,000 dollar bomb!

clap for yoursef!

shepocrite!
has she condemn the killing of nigeria yoot in agatu, nimbo, onitsha, ibuza, asaba and aba?
she just want oyinbo to notice her

the butcher of 2 million nigerians

rubbish talk by efcc!
next thing now they will say it is fayose that bought me this amala i am eating.

how can you come and hang one person property on another person head?
this magun get sense so?

nice one by baba
#fireonbaba!

increase it to 400 kumai,
we needs to collect devee from all the qworupt importers!

Jarus:
I retired from active participation in Political discussions on Nairaland far before the last elections. In fact, I got disinterested in Political discussions on Nairaland when I resigned as Politics section mod 31 December 2012, less than 2 years into GEJ tenure. The period witnessed exodus of not just me, but many top politics section participants, our generation. It was around thst same time I floated a blog for my other area of participation on Nairaland, career, which I consider a more productive use of my online time.

Even at that, despite my undisguised political choices, including preference for Buhari, I was never an unreasonable critic of anyone, including GEJ. I analyse political actions and inactions based on their merit.

By the way, I quit political discussion on Nairaland during GEJ time,so you cannot accuse me of going into hibernation because of non-performance of my man that is now the President. if anything, I have been more vocal against Buhari in more formal media (newspapers, Sahara reporters, Premium Times etc) than the immaturity going on on Nairaland politics section now.

Google my articles published in dailies
1, Buhari : Media Perception Matters
2, Wailing for Buhari's Waning Popularity.

And yes, I have always been active in sports and other areas of Nairaland far back 2008.

Trust me, some of us are not petty, one-way analysts.

thank you my brother,
sai baba till 2040!

nice one by buhari!
all this people appointed,
are they not nigerians?
why the wailing?

i dont care where you are from so far ypu perform.
kachuku could not reduce the price of petrol like he promise.
if i am buhari i will fire him sef,.

idupaul:
Right now our number 1 problem is Buhari

you got it right!

ba7man:
Corrupt people try to paint it as if it's not our main problem in this country.
It's the main reason we have little savings to cushion the effects of this low oil price times in Nigeria..... a one commodity country.

see you!
you fit buy ram this ramadan?

they have not started!
this is just the first plague
and there will be ten plagues!

babarian zombies,
which ones is better -
cassava bread or bread of sorrows?

ha ha ha
buhari, person no fit play with you again?
why you dey provoke like this?

which one be diezane ally?
are all the companies in nigeria oil and gas diezane ally?

nice wan!
wan nuuuut!!!1

hearing will soon come up.
judiciary is getting into mess.
njc will debar plenty judges soon.

keyamo is a baby lawyer.
has he ever win case?

kachuku,
you see yarsef?

buhari,
na so we go dey go?
betrayal and disappointment everywhere!
no ram for ramadan!

see buhari eye for this wan,
him wan die!

Seriki has hook buhari throat!

nice one.
buhari you see yarsef?

common sense, buhari supporters no get.
babarians

onismate:
Hi thank you for your great comment, thank God I was there when the did happened. The ojukaye guy is 100% guilty. Imagine a popular politician like him running a human being over with his car like an animal. This is murder case. Thank God for my life that day. It would have been me and my friends the so called politician who have killed. I am not from rivers state but I could remember that day that this incident happened. This man was ranting, almost held some corpers hostage that election day. He and his boys were ready to kill. Na so me and my friends run find our way. Before we held that he has killed someone. Let the law take its full course on this case.

they should treat this protesters like the rest ipob yoot.

oshomole is off to prison and the hole hat was dog for him.
#fireonbaba

the basis of injustice abang's ruling is that ikpeazu did not pay his taxes?
is that true? how did the injustice determine that?

ojuku again?
why are this 20 ipob yoots making noise and beating shest?
Wike has said he does not support you!
go home to your erosion

so what he is doing now is not discrimination?
Chaaaai!

Nice one by Bode.
Only, remember it cost 18,000 a day to feed prisoner,
why not use machine gun and lavish all street trader and buyer?

Thank me later for stopping the kworruption.

pussyeater:
Ode!... A SaharaReporters investigation into criminal activity in the United States by one Aisha Buhari confirms that the perpetrator is not the First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari. SaharaReporters began its latest investigation following the circulation of reports that Mrs. Buhari—wife of President Muhammadu Buhari—was involved in a bribe scheme in 2002 in which she wired the sum of $170,000 to disgraced former US Congressman William Jefferson.

how can a adult man lie to himsef?

Why Ogoni cleanup will be delayed
By Kelvin Ebiri, Port Harcourt | 03 July 2016 | 4:11 am
Chief Pyagbara Legborsi,
Chief Pyagbara Legborsi,

•Logistics challenge, infrastructural gaps knock take-off
•As Federal Government reiterates call for patience

The actual implementation of recommendations by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Ogoniland might not commence till next year.

The Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, has, however, said President Muhammadu Buhari remains committed to the mission, perceived delays notwithstanding.


According to Legborsi Pyagbara, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), the clean up might not start in the next six to eight months.
He told The Guardian that Ogoni currently lacks the requisite manpower to assist environmental experts push ahead with the exercise.

He said that in a bid to ensure that the project benefits local communities, stakeholders agreed that at least 300 to 1000 Ogoni youths needed training within and outside the country.

“We want it in such a way that our community will benefit. If the clean up commences today, where are the people with the technical capacity and ability to be engaged in the process? That means recruiting some young Ogoni, sending them abroad or anywhere in this country to train for a minimum of six months, so that they will be certificated and deployed during the actual clean up. It will take a minimum of six months to get a certification, locally and internationally,” he explained.

The MOSOP President said these are the initial basic things that need to be done before the actual clean up can begin. He also noted that building of the strategic Centre for Excellence and Integrated Soil Management Centre are yet to be implemented.

Pyagbara noted that during the study that culminated in the UNEP report, about 5000 samples taken from various locations in Ogoni had to be couriered to laboratories in London and America, warning that unless a soil management centre is built, the project would suffer logistical challenge of couriering samples overseas.

He said: “If you consider the cost of couriering 5000 samples, you will know how much that gulps. So, there are two ways. It is either we continue with that type of process or we ensure that the Integrated Soil Management Centre is built first. That centre alone will take a minimum of six months to a year. In fact, UNEP said it is going to take 18 months. But I received information, recently, that there is technology that can enhance building of the centre within eight to 12 months. That means everything will be fabricated outside. But our thinking is that the thing has to be built, here, so that it will encourage local participation and create jobs. And that means we have to go for the process that will take 18 months.”

Pyagbara expressed optimism that the governing council and the board of trustees for the clean up might be announced next week. He disclosed that the composition of the council and board were concluded last year.


“Last year, there was no consideration for the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to be in the governing council. Now, there is a proposal that they have to, because they have the sole responsibility of dealing with all the issues of the region. So, there have been arguments back and forth. There are a couple of institutions, which were not there last year. And which, with the benefit of hindsight, people are saying we need to bring on board. Such has also contributed to the delay.”
The Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, meanwhile, has called for patience, as government sets about laying the foundation for the clean up.

According to her, President Buhari remains steadfast in his conviction to clean up Ogoniland, even as she stressed the complexity of the initiative and need to carry all stakeholders along