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The Federal Government will develop about 13,000 megawatts (13 gigawatts) of off-grid electricity from solar energy, the Minister of Environment, Hajiya Amina Mohammed has disclosed.

The minister, yesterday, said the Federal Government was working on the possibility of diversifying the country’s energy mix and laid emphases on renewable energy and efficient gas power in meeting the energy needs of Nigerians.

Mrs. Mohammed, according to a document she issued to the media, containing some of the highlights and agreements reached at the recently concluded Conference of Parties on Climate Change, otherwise known as COP 21, which was held in Paris, France, said that “in particular, we plan to develop around 13GW of off-grid solar power, delivering energy access to the poorest communities in a cheaper and healthier manner with less emission.”

The minister also noted that the government would increase the use of climate-smart agriculture through irrigation systems, climate-resilient crops and broader sustainable land management practices, “given the climate risks that Nigeria faces, this is the only way in which the government’s ambitious Agriculture Transformation Agenda can be delivered,” she added.

She disclosed Nigeria’s eagerness to take a regional lead by announcing a bold and courageous Intended Nationally Determined Contributions that seek to ensure that the Nigerian economy continues to grow while reducing its carbon emissions.

“Nigeria’s ambitious INDCs aim at reducing emissions by 20 per cent by the year 2030 with support from the international community. This will support the restructuring of the economy in a way that will facilitate inclusive growth with vast opportunities to diversify the energy mix, with emphasis on renewable energy and efficient gas power.

“In particular, we plan to develop around 13GW of off-grid solar power, delivering energy access to the poorest communities in a cheaper and healthier manner with less emission. We also plan to create a more efficient, lower carbon oil and gas sector. By ending gas flaring and using the gas for commercial purposes, including power generation, we could generate as much as $7.5bn worth of benefits,” she added.

She noted that the government would substantially increase the use of climate smart agriculture through irrigation systems, climate resilient crops and broader sustainable land management practices.

“Given the climate risks that Nigeria faces, this is the only way in which the government’s ambitious Agriculture Transformation Agenda can be delivered,” she added.

Mohammed said these opportunities would not only reduce emissions and improve climate resilience, but that the approach would unlock economic opportunities.

The minister further revealed that the World Bank has projected that a combination of low carbon activities could provide a boost to the Nigerian economy and add as much as two per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product.

She urged the international community to support and assist Nigeria with financing, technology and capacity building, just as she enjoined the private sector and civil society to partner the government to unlock the opportunities provided by the historic climate change agreement, emphasising that, “working together, I firmly believe that we can commit ourselves to actions that will serve as a springboard to Nigeria’s new climate economy.”

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/486692/fg-targets-13000mw-solar-electricity-amina-mohammed

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This story is amazing. Despite their travails in the hands of the dreaded Boko Haram, there is still light at the end of the tunnel.

Nineteen year old Miss Juliet Joseph from Adamawa State, has emerged the winner of the maiden edition of Miss North East Nigeria Beauty Pageant that took place at the main bowl of Wanenosom Cinema in Numan local government of Adamawa State.

The contest which took pace on Friday evening, saw many participants from across the region slugging it out for the coveted crown.

It was after the rigorous exercise that Miss Joseph emerged winner, while the duo of Rose Clement, 23, and Blessing Amos, 24, emerged first and second runners up respectively.

The beauty contest which was organised by M2 Ventures, Nigeria and E&T Management, Nigeria was attended by many entertainment buffs across the country including NAYDO, Funky Mallam and Jreal.

In an interview session shortly after the event, founder of the Miss North-east Beauty Pageant Angelyna Kimu Mindapa said the aim of organising the event was to showcase the beauty of the region, provide a mentor for young ladies in education, humanitarian service and entrepreneurship and to provide an avenue for indigenous ladies to attend national and international beauty pageants.

She noted that the event was organised in four segments including an interview session, named after Nyaka Mindapa, a renowned journalist who died last year.

According to her, the other segments include casual dress segment, and traditional dress from the North-east segment.

Other awards won during the beauty contest, included Miss Congeniality, Miss Photogenic and Best traditional outfit which ended in a tie.

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/486782/juliet-joseph-emerges-winner-miss-north-east-beauty-pageant

Cc: lalasticlala, Mynd44, seun.

Nineteen year old Miss Juliet Joseph from Adamawa State, has emerged the winner of the maiden edition of Miss North East Nigeria Beauty Pageant that took place at the main bowl of Wanenosom Cinema in Numan local government of Adamawa State.

The contest which took pace on Friday evening, saw many participants from across the region slugging it out for the coveted crown.

It was after the rigorous exercise that Miss Joseph emerged winner, while the duo of Rose Clement, 23, and Blessing Amos, 24, emerged first and second runners up respectively.

The beauty contest which was organised by M2 Ventures, Nigeria and E&T Management, Nigeria was attended by many entertainment buffs across the country including NAYDO, Funky Mallam and Jreal.

In an interview session shortly after the event, founder of the Miss North-east Beauty Pageant Angelyna Kimu Mindapa said the aim of organising the event was to showcase the beauty of the region, provide a mentor for young ladies in education, humanitarian service and entrepreneurship and to provide an avenue for indigenous ladies to attend national and international beauty pageants.

She noted that the event was organised in four segments including an interview session, named after Nyaka Mindapa, a renowned journalist who died last year.

According to her, the other segments include casual dress segment, and traditional dress from the North-east segment.

Other awards won during the beauty contest, included Miss Congeniality, Miss Photogenic and Best traditional outfit which ended in a tie.

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/486782/juliet-joseph-emerges-winner-miss-north-east-beauty-pageant

Cc: lalasticlala, Mynd44, seun.

Let's wait and see by giving them the benefit of doubt.

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/486593/petrol-sell-n87-january-kachikwu

Cc: lalasticlala, Seun, mynd44, obinoscopy

The federal government has disclosed that a new pump price of fuel would become effective on 1, January, 2016.

This disclosure was made yesterday by the minister of state for petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, at the Port Harcourt refinery shortly after taking a tour of the facility.

The minister stated that following the completion of an analysis taking into cognizance the current reality in the oil market, the new pump price would likely be either N85 or N86 from January 1, 2016.

Kachikwu, who stated that he signed off on the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) template Thursday, said marketers would be advised regarding the new price in a couple of days as the PPPRA would adjust its pricing template.

He said: “The new PPPRA template was signed off yesterday (Thursday), in the next couple of days marketers will be duly advised. Pricing is not a gimmick, we have to reflect these prices to reflect realities of crude market. The objective is two-fold, one we cannot afford to continue to subsidise when we can’t even understand where those subsidies are going to. There’s a lot of fraudulent element involved and we have to cut that off.

“Secondly, the earning capacity of government is deteriorating by the day due to lower prices of crude. So applying that, what we landed when we did our analysis for the first time was about N85 or N86, so it’s below N87.”

Asked specifically when the new pump price will become effective, the minister said, “it will be more like 1st of January, 2016.”

Kachikwu also disclosed that having failed to reach their expected levels of operations, the Warri and Kaduna refineries would be producing on part time bases, while the government would seek for third party financers to fund them

Ruling out a possible sale of the refineries, the minister said, “My assessment today is that Kaduna is up. Port Harcourt is coming up, but not at the level where they would not need help. We will likely see both Warri and Kaduna, not shut down, but we are going to work for mechanisms whereby they can keep producing on a part time basis.

“We are going to bring in third party financials to help us put money into them, get them holistically where they should be and then work out the payment structure. The issue of sale is not within my authority that’s for the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the President to take a decision on. But my position is that irrespective of whatever we do, these refineries must be brought back through financing otherwise we are wasting our time,” he said.

Kachikwu further disclosed that he would make a case to the President Muhammadu Buhari on the exception of the Petroleum equalisation Fund (PEF) from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) in order to return normalcy to the payment of bridging claims to transporters of petroleum products.

Reacting to the non-payment of transporters for about three months now, a situation which is further worsening the fuel distribution chain, the minister said the capturing of PEF in the TSA, which shouldn’t be, distorted the payment system of transporters.

He explained that “the reality is that once TSA happened, PEF fund was also captured in TSA, they rightly shouldn’t be. Those are not monies belonging to the federal government and am going to make a case to the president to try and pull that out of there. What it meant is that the automatic device with which PEF need to make payment to transporters ended so they’ve had a backlog.

Kachikwu stated that he has met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) over the matter who has, graciously agreed to approve money to be given to PEF for the payment of petroleum products transporters

The minister however, added that “ultimately the solution would be to move out PEF funds back to the dedicated manner. PEF doesn’t get any subvention from government; they are no different from joint venture holders which the president has graciously approved for exemption. So we need to get that exemption so they can go back to computerised payment system they had. That’s what kept the trucking movement fluid,” he added.

[quote author=TruthHurts1 post=41340192][/quote]I can see how dump one is. So it is a secluded religion and you don't need others to join or invite them to your faith?. You couldn't put up a convincing argument and present it with facts. Why do they always run away from a superior argument?. Go and learn your bible very well and come back to me.
Believe this, am very much at home with the Christians. I have them surrounding me. And I love them.
On terrorism and the killings, please go and learn more. People only define terrorism to suit their own position on it. The Americans holding gun and killing innocent people on the streets is not terrorism. Hiroshima is another good example of terrorism. And the conspiracy between the Americans, Israelis and the west to foster them on the Palestinians after nearly being wiped out by Hitler during the holocaust thereby causing this unending conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis. And the Israelis killing women and children that can't harm anything as acknowledged by even the united nations isn't terrorism?. Go and learn the true meaning of the word and them come back.
And my brother, believe this also. I don't support certain things the so-called Muslims do. It is in aberration to the teachings of the religion. 'self defense isn't murder'.
World politics is at play. The middle east crisis and the rest comes to mind on how they created the crisis just to get what they want. That is why giants like Russia and China always take a different angle when dealing with such issues. They don't call the Muslims terrorists because they are a match to any other country and so see things as it is and won't be cowed in accepting that.

TruthHurts1:
If you don't understand then you are a victim of your own lack of basic intelligence. Christians understand the concept of the Trinity perfectly because it is one of the foundational doctrines of our faith. You can stick with Mohammed and islam and leave Chrstian doctrine for us Christians.

I would have if not for the fact that Isaiah 1:18 said 'let us reason together'. So in following the bible scripture, I want us to reason together.

TruthHurts1:
The Trinity is a doctrine which is inferred from Scripture.It is a simple way for Christians to reconcile the Divine attributes of Christ with those of his Father and the works of the Holy Spirit.
At first God spoke to us directly. This is obvious from the Old Testament where God deals with the children of Israel by himself and by the use of Judges and Prophets. After this God spoke through His Son Jesus and before Jesus ascended to Heaven he promised the Early Church fathers that he would send a Comforter call the "Holy Spirit" to minister unto them and guide them, and this promise was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. And that is the origin of the trinity, it is a shorthand way of acknowledging that our knowledge of scripture was given to us by The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. Simple.
As I said earlier the jesus of the koran is a false and fictitious character and Christians do not recognise him as our own Jesus.

I still don't get this concept of trinity. 3 in 1 right?. The father=the son=the holy spirit. Its confusing. The father is sharing who created the son via divine intervention and also the holy spirit is now sitting in one of the 3 chairs of the throne and is also equal to his creations.
Who controls this and that? Who's responsible for other things?. The son is the same as the father and also the holy spirit.
So confusing.

TruthHurts1:
Jesus has nothing to do with Islam. The Jesus in the koran is a work of fiction invented by muslims. He is not the same person as the Biblical Jesus and he carries no moral or spiritual authority over Christians. The Bible specifically warned that there would be counterfeit versions of Jesus and Christians have been admonished for accepting any version of Jesus outside the Bible:
2 Corinthians 11:4
"if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough."
The koranic jesus is a false prophet plain and simple.

It is the same Jesus (A.S) ibn Mary that the Qur'an mentioned. In fact if you don't know, the Muslims adore and love Jesus A.S. We have never rejected him. Instead we see him as a messenger of God that came just like Ishmael and others to prophesies the words of God the Almighty. And same people that misconstrued his preaching and plotted his demise are same people saying they love him more.
You still haven't answered my poser base on the trinity.
Explain it to me. And tell me where Jesus A.S said you should equate him with the Almighty one.

TruthHurts1:
This is wrong. As a Christian, I am commanded to love everyone including muslims. But a line has to be drawn somewhere when it comes to islam's blasphemous attitude towards the message of Christ. As a Christian I can never send a Christmas gift to someone whose Religion denies the essence of Christ as my Saviour and the only begotten Son of the only true God. How can someone who cannot appreciate Christ appreciate the Spirit of Christmas?
I can send a muslim gifts on his birthday or wedding day but when it comes to gifts of a religious nature I do not think I can give such because the spiritual significance of a Christmas or Easter gift is completely lost to him. In the same regard I cannot accept any gift of a religious nature from anyone who is not a Christian.

In that case, I think as a Muslim, am more christian than you are. because I believe in Jesus Christ (A.S). Whenever his name is mentioned, we Muslim ascribe the 'A.S' to it. Meaning alayyi salam. That is, peace be unto him. There are so many things we do believe concerning Jesus Christ (A.S).
His miraculous birth, his miracles etc.
But the biggest blip in our differences is the trinity.

porrigeyam:
nice 1


I remember when during our sallah we give all our Christian neighbour's food and during Christmas all our Christian neighbours gives us also food.. that's love and it's only done by Yoruba Muslims.


so op what did u give him/her during sallah

NB:not saying it is a most just asking ni o.

Sallah meat

Joygalore:
FFO

Return the gesture on Sallah and not to eat alone

The sallah meat went round and he also got a share of it. Just that he took me unawares for this gesture.

Make una no cum rob me of the hamper o. My location is hidden. It will go round cos I can't finish it.

A christian friend of mine sent me this hamper today. I was surprised. This is indeed a welcome thing.

Religious tolerance is the key.

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This is so incredible, an answer to a simple arithmetic that was given to him but all he could see was the hand that signaled the answer and he foolishly had to draw it. Some people's head is quite strong that it can't be cracked. I laugh in swahili.

This is corruption as it can't be traced. Billions of naira of taxpayers money going down the drain all in the name of 'stomach infrastructure'. Diariz God o.

As part of its mission to promote democracy globally, the Precinct convenes leaders from many different backgrounds, religions, and political systems.

Following the examples of Presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, we at the Precinct are interested in exploring knowledge and ideas no matter where they may be found or who may promote them.

In the words of Thomas Jefferson “For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it”.

The Precinct’s most recent visitor was Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015.

President Jonathan hopes to continue serving Nigeria and Africa by establishing institutions that can effect meaningful change.

Jonathan was the first President in Nigeria’s history to peacefully concede the results of a democratic election and to relinquish his position in office to the opposition.

The peaceful transfer of power was an original goal of the American founding fathers.

It was fitting that President Jonathan chose to begin planning a private Foundation and his post presidential role by coming to the Presidential Precinct in Virginia for advice.



President Jonathan spent nearly a week, November 8-13, 2015, at the Presidential Precinct, meeting with academic, government and business leaders and sharing his experiences with local experts.

Here he discussed with them ideas for bringing peace and economic development to Africa.

He also used the opportunity to work with specialists to hone his Foundation’s message.

Opening his visit, President Jonathan was introduced to the Presidential Precinct Board of Directors at the University of Virginia’s Morven Farm.

The reception was chaired by Jim Murray, Presidential Precinct Chairman.

President Jonathan then took advantage of the opportunity to visit all the Precinct partnering sites including James Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and James Madison’s Montpelier.

While at Monticello, President Jonathan was joined by local and international business leaders for dinner at Monticello’s Montalto.

President Jonathan went on through a series of public and private meetings in which he expounded  upon his refined vision for the newly created Goodluck Jonathan Foundation.

The Precinct enabled him to exchange experiences with those sharing his interest in democracy and his new mission to promote good governance.

President Jonathan went on to visit William & Mary where he met with Law School faculty to talk about democracy, the rule of law and international human rights.

While on campus, President Jonathan also joined library leadership and other William & Mary faculty for a breakfast at Swem Library where social entrepreneurship and civic engagement challenges were discussed.

A high point of President Jonathan’s visit to William & Mary was a meeting held at the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations (ITPIR) and AidData.

There President Jonathan learned about W&M’s groundbreaking work in Africa on Foreign Aid and Development.

He also had an engaging lunch meeting with a small group of students and faculty from William & Mary’s Africana Studies program, where President Jonathan spoke about his Pan-African vision and fielded questions from the faculty and students.

Everything from LGBT rights to building power grids and infrastructure were openly discussed.

President Jonathan returned to Charlottesville Friday morning to give pre-prepared remarks about his post-presidency plans to more than 300 academic, business and government leaders.

Jonathan envisions four post-presidential goals: to develop the private sector economy and to create jobs for young people; to promote good governance by encouraging credible elections and stable transitions throughout Africa; to unite African leaders, both young and old; and to establish the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation to promote these goals.

In the course of his closing speech, President Jonathan explained that when he was a boy in elementary school in rural Nigeria, everyone was taught that Africa was “the dark continent.”

He explained that it was his hope to turn that around and ensure that Africa becomes the next great frontier for world growth – effectively, “the bright continent.”

The crowd appeared to embrace President Jonathan’s goals with enthusiasm.

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Source: http://leadership.ng/news/485613/former-nigerian-president-goodluck-jonathan-visits-presidential-precinct

Nigeria’s journalism is junk. It is the FIFA ethics committee not a court. Haba!!!

Our Patience today will bring us Goodluck without Jonathan.

Have you guys noticed, Obagoal look same age as the Ooni. Na wa o our footballers.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/18/court-appeal-nullifies-election-akwa-ibom-governor-emmanuel-udom.

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A panel of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal in Abuja has sacked Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State. In delivering its final ruling on the conduct of the governorship election in Akwa Ibom, the five-member panel upheld the petition of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), agreeing that the election of Governor Emmanuel Udom of the People’s Democratic Party did not conform to the electoral act.


The court, therefore annulled the election, first re-asserting the importance of card readers and afirming that the election was marred by over-voting. The court denied all releiefs sought by the candidate of the PDP and granted the reliefs sought by the governorship candidate of the APC, Umana Okon Umana, asking for the cancellation of the election. The Court ordered a rerun of the election across the state within 90 days.

Mr. Udom is expected to appeal today’s verdict to the Supreme Court for a final decision.


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Lies and more lies. Salaries were paid. And the FG doesn't owe any FG staff. As for the salary of Dec, the FG has released a statement saying they will pay before christmas.

Pls read the article well. There is nowhere it is mentioned NNPC will downsize by 1100. Common the headline is bad.

Let there be peace.

The NSCIA has moved to pacify all sides involved in the fracas between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the Nigerian Army. This is contained in a press release.
Excerpt.

The CG of NSCDC, my blood and my pride. Continue the good work.

abiolag:
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