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Friday, 8 January 2016
The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Authority, NEMSA has declared its intention to outlaw the use of wooden electricity poles in the first quarter of 2016.
The Managing Director of the agency, Mr Peter Ewesor made the declaration in Abuja on Thursday while briefing newsmen.
He said that the measure was necessitated by the absence manufacturers of high quality wooden electricity poles in Nigeria adding that the use of substandard materials would no longer be allowed in the industry.
His words:
“Today in Nigeria there’s no factory producing good, well treated wooden poles. We are going to outlaw the use of wooden poles this 2016. It will be one of the first things we are going to do because bad wooden poles have caused a lot of accidents in the power sector.
“We are going to make sure we outlaw that and before the end of first quarter we will publish that appropriately in the media. And we are going to send instructions to all Discos directing the outlaw of wooden poles in their networks.
A wooden electricity pole in Kuje, Abuja only held in place by the electricity cables supplying power to homes.
The Federal Government has been advised to exercise restraint in its borrowing plans by the International Monetary Fund, IMF.
In a statement she issued on Thursday at the end of her four-day working visit to Nigeria, the Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde urged the Federal Government to broaden its revenue base and create additional fiscal space to offset the impact of falling oil prices.
She advised government to take "careful decisions on borrowing, public spending, and managing the cost of fuel subsidies – with a view to safeguarding priority social sectors and the most vulnerable groups.”
Lagarde also said that the country would "require a package of measures involving business-friendly monetary policy, flexible exchange rate policy, and disciplined fiscal policy, and the implementation of structural reforms.”
She complimented the efforts of government to "address corruption, particularly the decision to publish monthly data on the finances and operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),” adding that “transparency and the rule of law will be crucial in reducing constraints to the country’s growth.”
Thursday, 7 January 2016
Mr. Bitrus Gwada, a former legal adviser to the Arewa Consultative Forum has declared that only the former BOT chairman of PDP, Chief Tony Anenih and Alhaji Tanko Yakassai can account for how the N63m meant for the Presidential Advocacy Group was spent.
He said that he and the other members of the group set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan have nothing to do with the controversy surrounding the money.
Anenih had told EFCC officials investigating the $2.1b Dasuki armsgate that he gave N63m out of the N260m he received from the former NSA to Yakassai to fund the activities of the advocacy group.
However, the elder statesman and Chairman of the Northern Elders Council said that he only got N53m from Anenih for the Presidential Advocacy Group which toured the 19 northern states to douse the tension that arose in the course of preparations for the 2015 general elections.
Explaining how he got involved with the group, Gwada said ;
“I have read the report concerning Chief Tony Anenih’s N63 million allegation and that of Tanko Yakassai. Friends and relations have called me saying that Alhaji Yakassai had disclosed that I was one of those he requested to be on the Presidency’s advocacy group.
“He wanted me to join a presidential advocacy group to meet socio-cultural, faith-based NGOs and traditional rulers in the 19 northern states to solicit for their support during the elections in view of the tension in the land at that time.”
Gwada said that he only agreed to join the group only after he was assured that they would not be used to campaign for any political party.
“I will not join issues on the N63 million or N53 million; because Anenih said he gave Tanko Yakassai N63 million and Yakassai has responded that he collected only N53 million. What I am saying is that I never collected any money from Chief Anenih. It is a matter only between Anenih and Alhaji Tanko Yakassai," he said.
Gabon and Borussia Dortmund striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has dethroned Cote D’Ivoire's Yaya Toure as African Footballer of the Year.
At Glo-CAF Awards held on Thursday night at the International Conference Center, Abuja, Aubameyang beat Yaya Toure and Ghana's Andre Ayew to lift the coveted trophy.
Other awards given at the event were: African Footballer of the Year Based in Africa won by
Mbwana Aly Samatta of Botswana; Most Promising Talent won by Oghenekaro Etebo of the Nigeria U-23 team; Youth Player of the Year won by Victor Osimhen of the Golden Eaglets and Coach of the Year won by Herve Renard.
Other people who won awards were :
Gaelle Enganamouit of Cameroon, Women’s Player of the Year. Bakary Papa Gassama, of The Gambia, Referee of the Year, while the duo of Charles Gyamfi (Ghana) and Samuel Leppe (Cameroon) won the African Legends of the Year Award.
General Lawal Jafaru Isa, a former Military Administrator of Kaduna State and close friend of President Muhammadu Buhari has been arrested by the EFCC in connection with the ongoing $2.1b arms deals probe.
The retired General who is also a prominent member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has reportedly undergone over 18 hours of questioning already.
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