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Fashola told us that electricity under his watch will stabilize in 6 months. He went on to castigate Bath Nnaji, someone who read all these in school, but Fashola? No. He read law... So tell me how a lawyer will stabilize power? This is ridiculous.... Power generation has dropped to an abysmal lowwwwwww!
Just watching you all in 3D+

The nation’s power supply slumped by 623.76 megawatts in three days, worsening the rationing that electricity distribution companies have been subjecting consumers to in recent days.

The drop in the nation’s electricity generation has caused reduction in load allocation from the national grid to Discos.

Electricity generated on Thursday, February 25, stood at 3,601.78MW, down from 4,245.53MW on February 22, according to data obtained from the Presidential Task Force on Power and Federal Ministry of Power.

Power supply to households and businesses across the country dropped on Thursday to 3,531.88MW from 4,155.64MW on Monday.

On Wednesday, electricity generation was 3,697.31MW, while 3,625.42MW was sent out that day, the data showed.

The nation achieved its peak generation of 5,074.70MW on February 2, when 4,541.85MW was generated and 4,447.88MW was sent out.

Electricity supply had on February 14, dropped to 3,485MW, out of the 3,558.39 generated that day, according to data from the Ministry of Power.

Eko Electricity Distribution Plc on Friday explained the reason for the current power rationing and intermittent outage being experienced in areas under its coverage in the past few weeks.

The company, in a statement signed by its Head of Corporate Communications, Mr. Idemudia Godwin, said the power supply instability was partly due to inadequate bulk electricity load allocation to the company from the national grid.

It said this arose from a drop in the national generation level as a result of incessant acts of vandalism on gas pipelines and transmission towers.

Eko Disco said the situation was not limited to the company’s coverage areas alone, adding that all parts of the country were affected since the problem had to do with low generation level.

It said the situation had led to acute power rationing in all areas within the company’s operational territory.

According to the statement, areas worst hit by the resultant power rationing include Surulere, Lekki, Ajah, Ibeju, Mushin, Apapa, Yaba and their environs.

EKEDP appealed to all its customers to bear with the situation, assuring them that it was doing all within its powers to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of available power to all customers pending the time there would be a significant improvement in the national power generation level.

The recent 488.7MW fall in electricity generation came after the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, had promised that the country would increase its power production by 2,000MW before the end of this year.

He stated that given the various plans undertaken by the present administration in the sector, power generation would increase by 2,000MW in the last quarter of 2016.

Fashola stated that a lot had changed in the management of power in Nigeria in recent times.

“Distribution of power is no longer a government business but has been taken over by private companies. Also, government has privatised power generation, which has steered towards the full privatisation of the sector with transmission aspect being managed by Manitoba International of Canada,” he had said.

The Managing Director, System Operation/Market Operation, Transmission Company of Nigeria, Dipak Sarma, had attributed the recent achievements in electricity generation to the enhanced cooperation among all stakeholders and concerted efforts by the system operators at the National Control Centre and other stations to ensure that generated electricity was wheeled to the distribution companies and that there was no stranded power.

The System Operator had stated that the attainment of the record peak generation of 5,074.7MW was achieved alongside the maximum daily energy of 109,372MW per hour, which was wheeled nationwide.... The Punch.

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I love this Fayose, whenever he utters a word the whole world quakes. Other people could not have received the kind of response he receives. He is such an icon and a great news maker!

I love this Fayose, whenever he utters a word the whole world quakes. Other people could not have received the kind of response he receives. He is such an icon and a great news maker!

We have so many irresponsible "fathers" in this generation whose ultimate aim is to overpopulate the world with their kind. When men decide to be MEN, things will work out positively. Being a man does not mean pumping out children from a woman but taking absolute responsibility over them. God help this generation.

It has been said over and over that fatherhood is destiny. This is why the prayer of so many young boys today is to become a father. Fatherhood holds the key to the salvation and restoration of mankind. The Biblical prophet Malachi spoke of the work and purpose of the coming Messiah by declaring, "He will turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers and the hearts of the fathers back to the children."

By definition, prodigal means extravagant, wasteful and improvident. It is a word used by Jesus to describe a man who at a point in his life championed sub-optimal courses and paid dearly for it (Luke 15:11-32). But ever heard of a prodigal father? That must be a worst parent! He is one who cares less about the future and welfare of his own family. He delights in taking away the things meant for the good of his family and squanders it in loose living. He is destructive and wasteful. When he is a leader of his people, he plunders the treasury and makes every effort to die in office. Those who have no hope of dying soon, do well to plant people who will always cover their sins until they die. They always rotate power among their own kinds, holding it indefinitely without giving a hoot about the next generation leaders.

Researchers today agree that it is very important for every child to have his or her father living at home. This is because studies on social development reveal that, children of divorced parents and those born outside of marriage struggle through life at a measurable disadvantage, thereby linking the absence of fathers to most social nightmares - from boys with guns/bombs, to girls with babies.

In traditional families, parents are discouraged from divorce. This goes further to show that God the Creator designed the human family to procreate within the context of a strong, stable union structured to provide the social, psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual environment for successful development. There are also further evidences to show that there are critical emotional and psychological needs that only a male can provide, just as there are specific needs only the female is designed to meet.

Growing up in a traditional African society, I often hear parents say that their children will be better and even greater than they are. This goes further to show that they put extra effort to solve certain difficult problems for their children before they ever get to solve those problems. They also show them the ways to approach those problems and conquer them for good. A father would practically go through some dangerous areas just to save his children the pains of going through them as the time comes. A good father marks off the dangerous points in his life's journey and points them out to his children to save them from being embarrassed or delayed by them, else he exists for nothing.

Knowledge is good news. The Bible tells us that good news is for sharing (2 Kings 7:9). If as a father I refuse to transfer knowledge to those coming after me, then I am a fool, because the knowledge will surely die with me, not benefiting any one. When a young man or woman lacks the nurturing influence of a true father to give him or her identity, he or she suffers from an identity crisis.

Ideally, children should look and sound like their parents. No one gets identity by simply joining a gang or reading books - identity comes from a FATHER! A man needs to be affirmed by a father in order to confirm his manhood. The only one that can make you understand your manhood is your father. This is why you are better when you live together with your parents. Are your parents seeking for divorce? It's your duty to resist them otherwise, you will pay for it!

The Igbo society is one that carries with it a strong identity. Like the Jewish tradition, family relationships within their genealogy in Igboland, has a very real sense of the "father" spirit. The Jewish ceremony called "bar mitzvah" (or "iwa akwa" in Igbo culture), paints a picture of how a boy is called to age. In this ceremony, a boy goes before the men and performs some prescribed traditional rites, after which the men say to him, "Now, thou art a man" (meaning in Igbo: "I tozuola oke na mmadu" or "I burula nwoke ugbua". This goes to show that from that day forward, that boy takes on a different spirit, for he is now a man. This is why their communities (both Jewish and Igbo) are knitted so closely together and they are so strong in business, tradition, and culture. Being a man qualifies him (the boy) to be delegated by his father as his representative.

Apart from representing his father at certain functions, some hard but necessary duties are assigned to the boy to do as his father watches him from a distance. It is expected of him to make some mistakes and fail in some ways. This helps his father to correct and also direct him properly so that those mistakes will not occur when his father is no longer alive. Children in step families often miss a lot. Though, step families may provide the needed income, yet that advantage is often offset by the emotional rivalries among parents and children in step families.

God, at the earlier stage, told us that He hates divorce, even though He is aware that it can increase an adult's happiness, yet it is devastating to a child. A child in a divorced family often grows up wary of love, marriage, family, and may develop little or no ambition many years after his parents divorced. Divorce destroys the society, as no welfare reform can cut poverty as thorough as a two-parent family.

The concept of a prodigal father emerges as a result of the societal evils going on today. There are societies today where both religion and tradition allows a man to take up as many wives as he likes. He is also permitted by law to "divorce" any of the wives at slight provocations. As a result, dogs in human clothing, in order to satisfy their sexual urges, lure innocent unsuspecting girls to their homes in the name of marriage, only to get them divorced in no distant time. This is responsible for the littering of our streets today with "fatherless" children who by society's standard are regarded "unwanted" hence they only graduate into rapists, armed robbers, militants - carrying guns and bombs, etc. Some of them who make the lists of their countries' armed forces recruitment exercises, go there only to achieve their own selfish ambitions, using government machinery to terrorize others. What else do you expect of someone who grew up in the streets? Responsible children grow up in homes. Streets are only meant for rascals and criminals to grow in.

When parents become prodigal, they lose everything they inherited as parents - they lose their senses of responsibility, and feel unaccountable to anyone. Today, the whole world is in crisis because parents failed in their duties of building up their homes. The solution to this ugly situation will however, be far from us if we continue to neglect the importance of the home. Today's parents are busy working for money - in government and in other institutions. Mothers have abandoned the homes for office work and political appointments. Fathers on their side are no longer fathers but irresponsible beings who are only interested in sleeping around with women of easy virtues at an agreed sum. This generation is truly in trouble, until God saves us!

The problem will linger with no solution in sight, if we continue to allow parents to pursue nothing but pleasure and other material things, leaving the children to learn from strangers. In Psalm 82:5, David, the great king of Israel, addressed this very issue by divine inspiration, when he spoke of the moral and social chaos in his community and described the root cause of mankind's confusion, frustration, and self-destruction as follows: "They know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken."

The foundation of every society is the family. When the family is in jeopardy, the whole earth boils. There will always be problems until we come to terms with the principles, purpose, nature and precepts of the Almighty God. King David told us that we know nothing; that there is a misunderstanding or misconception of life - showing that we understand nothing and cannot comprehend our environment; and that we walk in darkness, see nothing and are ignorant.

When you lack understanding, you will continually use the wrong formula. The vital keys to reaching the right answer to our problems today are knowledge, wisdom and understanding. First, we must know and understand that the root cause of our problems today is a fatherhood issue. As parents, we have all gone prodigal and are ignorant of God's principles. We have tried in so many ways to solve the challenges of life from a position of ignorance, and this has led us into exasperation, frustration, and failure because we are walking in darkness.

Friends and brethren, how long shall we continue in the dark? Does it not amount to foolishness if we continue to neglect the fundamental principles and laws that regulate function and operation? How long shall we continue in pretense? It still remains a fact that, all life goes off-track and ends in failure, if we continue without knowledge and understanding of the basic, fundamental laws of God. Just like the Jewish and Igbo fathers tell and show their boys what it means to have the identity of a man, it is my duty as a father to also tell you what you should do. Now, pay close attention if you are a prodigal father or a fatherless child looking for identity.

Much as I understand how you feel at it, it is my pleasure to let you know that many years of running up and down looking for a father cannot guarantee you one. Fatherhood is not found in another peer who is also looking for a father, and you cannot discover who you are by looking to someone who doesn't know who he or she is. The truth remains that your identity comes from a father, and the only one that qualifies as your father in GOD (John 1:12). He calls you "My Son", and your identity is in Him, get it!

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Vitus_Ejiogu/343380

kenny987:
When people complain and point these glaring inequalities out, rather than calmly ascertain the merits of such complaints and demand for corrective measures or just keep quiet and let those affected make their voices heard, some spineless oafs will start talking about how Igbos always play the ethnic card or always claim victimisation.

Same thing keeps happening yet u expect them to keep quiet and accept crumbs when they're entitled to more for purposes of fairness. They get tired and decide to get out of the sham of a union, they get branded as traitors seeking to divide an entity. Where was the unity in the first place?

The truth must prevail.

So many selfish individuals in Nigeria. As if APC won election to fight the Igbo. God is bigger than all of you. The more you do the more you expose yourselves to ridicule. Keep promoting and employing your mumu cronies, but only a day will declare it. In that day, both the players and spectators will be naked before our naked eyes. You fight corruption and encourage nepotism. We now understand that NEPOTISM IS NOT CORRUPTION in APC led government!

Thanks to Ifeanyi Uba!

This our Mgbati Mgbatim brothers sabi brag no be small. Abeg na who ask am wetin he get? Make I see road pass jooor!

I want to find out from YouWiN3 Awardees whether any of them has received payment after the press conference. Please I need to know for record purposes. You can reach through: youwinbauchiyobe@yahoo.com. Please this information is highly needed. Thanks.

Where on earth can you see made in Nigeria book? Does Nigeria produce books? I want to see a made in Nigeria book. He preaches that we buy made in Nigeria goods, yes, but there are no made in Nigeria papers. Quote me anywhere!

Synzu:
Virgin gbakwa oku.

Why should it gbalaoku? Are you the spoilt child? Or you think it's impossible to be and remain a virgin? I don't know the op personally, but her virginity claim should not be hard to believe.

Coolcash1:
This man is just seeking for relevance...Perhaps he is among those that have stocked cash dollars in the soak away and ready to return it to bank...Seriously, he should just shussh his mouth and face his business rather than make mockery and public Shame of himself...

You're joking, right?

toposi4naija:
Thiz man provokes me shaa ooo..........can't yhu help revive the dying economy of ur state?.....all u can say is if I can be appointed as blah blah blah................

He has a point. Give him the chance to prove it. When the president was busy shortchanging his people he did not know that they hold what he might need to move Nigeria forward. Right now Uba wants to prove to him that "if you know this one, you may not know the other". Those accusing Uba of being unpatriotic should know that patriotism is not remembered when Uba's kinsmen were abandoned at the bus stop when the bus still has empty seats. Uba wants reintegration and then the economic woes will be over. Lesson: Don't underrate anybody, group or tribe in a theatrical setting like Nigeria. God bless Uba!

As if it's wrong to congratulate. I really do not understanding.

By Romanus Ugwu, ABUJA, Sun Newspaper)

The APC has emphatically denied ever congratulating opposition PDP candidate and winner of last weekend’s Benue South senatorial rerun election, Senator David Mark.

Online media sources were awash with rumours that the party and its representative for the rerun election may be at a crossroads, adding that while the APC candidate, Daniel Onjeh, has rejected and protested the outcome of the election, the party has already congratulated Mark after election commission INEC declared him winner.

However, in a release signed by National Secretary of the party, Mai Mala Buni, APC argued that the so-called ‘congratulatory message’ on a twitter handle purportedly belonging to the party did not come from the party, warning the general public to beware of false messages.

According to the ruling party: “The attention of the National Secretariat of the APC has been drawn to some false online publications reporting that the party has congratulated David Mark, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate in last Saturday’s Benue South senatorial rerun election.

“The APC has not issued any congratulatory message on the Benue South Senatorial rerun election. The ‘congratulatory message’ purportedly obtained from a twitter handle, ‘@APCNigeria’, did not emanate from the party. The purported twitter message itself is not credited to any APC official.

“The general public is advised to ignore the false message. The APC reiterates that only the National Chairman and the National Secretary officially speak for the party.”

aboyaji:
Who is to blame?

The church that allowed it or the person that printed the banner?

"wordwild"? For real?

This is why I love Christians! They would rather take blames and allow peace to reign. They saw the mistake but still paid for the banner and went ahead to display it not minding the mistake. Somebody somewhere could have fought over this...

shaqhead:
I support the president in either continuing with the YOUWIN project or improving upon it because it is a laudable initiative in empowering the youths but @winningwinner what is the source of this your news? Those letters in blue leads nowhere!

Isnt it strange that the whois record of this your BRAND NEW PORTAL was registered on 01-05-2015?
It also has the following registration details:
Admin Organization: UltraCrest
Admin Street: 4/6 Baptist Church AvenueAdmin Street: IlasamajaAdmin
City: LagosAdmin
State/Province:Admin
Postal Code: 100009
Admin Country: NGAdmin
Phone: +234.17225488

If you say this is YOUWIN with only the outer cover changed how come they are only funding REGISTERED COMPANIES and not individuals?

@OP I await your sincere answers!

The same thought here, but numbers of those that failed the YouWiN3 interview in Abuja were being called to resubmit their proposals as efforts are being made to include their names in the winners list. I investigated by calling the same number and a lady answered stressing that Mr. President has relaunched the programme as well as renaming it.
The number still looms large: 09082354317.
Confirm!

Goodluck Jonathan during his reign as Nigeria’s President initiated the YouWin! Small and Medium Enterprise, SME Growth Fund responsible for creating over 22,000 jobs – but as Muhammodu Buhari took over as President, it was put on hold with intention to scrape.

However, a source revealed that Buhari has succumbed to pressure and has given his approval for the YouWiN relaunch.

The source disclosed that Buhari was initially unconvinced about the programe but finally bowed to pressure to continue with YouWiN but, albeit, under a new name.

This laudable project was began by former president Goodluck Jonathan with sponsorship from World Bank under the coordination of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

This affected the payment of the YouWiN3 Awardees who up till now have not received their 2nd and 3rd tranches. Expectedly, this has affected their businesses threatening them to the point of folding up if nothing is done to pay them the remaining funds.

In order not to get Nigerians talking about the government copying the works of the “ineffectual Buffon” as tagged by The Economist, a new name and a new platform has been created.

The YouWiN Programme has been renamed “BUSINESS INNOVATION GROWTH (BIG)” by the Buhari administration.

Interested Nigerians can log into the new website and enter for the competition: www.bigportal.org.ng

HISTORY

imageFrom 2012 to 2015, the Jonathan government gave away over $100 million dollars to over 3,000 entrepreneurs as part of the YouWin competition. More than $50 million has already been disbursed. The winning entrepreneurs have received grants averaging $50,000 dollars to start or expand a business, and thus create jobs. Only people ages 40 and younger were allowed to apply.

In 2011, the former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan formally launched the first round of the business competition YouWin.

In the first of four rounds, the government granted $58 million to 1,200 entrepreneurs.

Goodluck Jonathan had the following words for YouWiN;

Bill Gates’ Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook are eloquent testimonies to the capacity of the youth to dream big and win big in an innovative manner. We have such men and women in this land too: our challenge is to find them early, nurture them and encourage them.”

WORLD BANK on YouWiN

In August 2015, the World Bank published an evaluation of the YouWin program by the economist David McKenzie. McKenzie analyzed survey data on the 1,920 firms three years after the program began, and found that the grant had a larger impact than he expected. The selected firms were substantially more likely to launch, survive, make profits, and, most importantly, to generate new jobs.

Of the firms evaluated, approximately 60% were new and 40% already existed. McKenzie analyzed these groups separately.

The main impact of the grant was that it seemed to have helped firms get off the ground and survive. Three years after the competition, 91% of entrepreneurs who launched their business after winning the grant were still in operation compared to only 54% of the losing entrepreneurs. For existing businesses, 96% of the grant-winners survived, while only 76% of the losers continued to operate.

World Bank report on YouWin: http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2015/08/12/090224b08306bb9a/1_0/Rendered/PDF/Identifying0an0ess0plan0competition.pdfWorld Bank report on YouWiN

Where did the news of the COLLAPSE even come from? Hmm! Some people are truly...

KIACOPS:
Youwin is coming back but with a different name so I hear. Na true?

According to some people, this government has relaunched: www.bigportal.org.ng

Why is EFCC arresting everyone that matters in Nigeria? Is it not better to first of all arrest our ailing economy instead? This EFCC is a joke. They keep arresting and releasing meaning that they are not on point!

jeffmyson:
For those saying trash on Youwin.the world bank validated the program and it shows that the program worked and the businesses are still there across the country.

I can challenge anyone that for every state in Nigeria, I can provide at least 20 Youwin funded businesses and there addresses for anyone to go and check it out. And I can guarantee that every awardee has a minimum of 3 staffs.

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/24992002/creating-jobs-through-business-plan-competition-evidence-nigeria%E2%80%99s-youwin-competition

World Bank applauds YouWiN programme under Jonathan:

Creating jobs through a business plan competition : evidence from Nigeria’s youwin competition (English)
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The youth enterprise with innovation (YouWiN) in Nigeria program is a business plan competition for young entrepreneurs in Nigeria. It has the stated objective of encouraging innovation and job creation through the creation of new businesses and expansion... See More +
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Mckenzie, David J.. 2015. Creating jobs through a business plan competition : evidence from Nigeria’s youwin competition. Finance & PSD Impact; no. 33. The lessons from DECFP Impact Evaluations. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/24992002/creating-jobs-through-business-plan-competition-evidence-nigeria’s-youwin-competition

love21a:

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It is a fraud that they fix the winners.. [/size]

If what you said is correct, then look at it this way: though the majority come from south east, which is your reason for not giving them their right. In the north and west where they are, they pay tax as well as engaging the indigenes as their staff. One of the rules of YouWiN which I know is that no awardee will employ his/her relative. In the northern part it was reported that so many people (indigenes) refused to enter the competition and those that entered could not convince their interviewers.
But mind you, the interviewers were mainly northerners as well as the monitors. SMEDAN which is somehow localised, will equally go to do their own monitoring. So whatever allegation or propaganda you carry about this nice programme will surely expose your ignorance. Again, your hatred for the south easterners is deep, yet you say ONE NIGERIA! Are you not deceiving yourself? The amount of tax these south easterners in paying in the north, west and other regions playing host to them cannot be quantified. At least appreciate them for that instead of being hostile.

siraj1402:
YOUWIN is a scam,no one is supervising them.I know of someone in Akure who won 10m only to open a cyber cafe and employ just a lady.He then went ahead to buy very expensive car.How many people have they employed? Just like SURE-P.

I too know people who really want to make their country proud. They invested their money wisely and employed people who equally are happy working for them. Remove that one you know in Akure out of 4, 900 Awardees and tell me if it is still a scam.
But you saw that person and shielded him if actually you are saying the truth. I am not a YouWiN awardee, but I celebrate these guys for what I saw many of them doing. So you do not need wish away a nice programme as this because your friend whom you deceived into squandering his money did not do well.
Anyway, as a good Nigerian it is your duty help in building a corrupt free nation and encourage youth empowerment. Educate yourself the more if you can...

peacengine:
Upon all the GEJ did for them they decided to vote for change, I feel for them but the change has come

This is not all about voting out GEJ, but for the good of us all. Everyone needs a job and government cannot employ all Nigerian youths. The empowerment is good. This is one of the reasons why the Ooni of Ife visited Buhari on Tuesday. If the youths are not empowered, Nigeria will have so much problems in her hands. It is necessary the government heed to their cry and do the needful.