FG To Encourage More Private/Public Partnership To Boost Domestic Gas.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said that more private and public sector collaboration will be encouraged as Nigeria steps up effort to realise its target of boosting domestic gas utilisation.
Sylva made this known on the Twitter account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Friday while inaugurating the Rainoil Limited Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) facility with a tank capacity of 8,000MT in Ijegun, Lagos.
He said the facility which also has about 40 LPG trucks would help to deepen cooking gas penetration in the country in line with the vision of the Federal Government.
Sylva said Rainoil Limited had strengthened its partnership with the government in gas utilisation and development of the gas sector in the country with the establishment of the facility.
He said : “Rainoil is really working in tandem with the vision of the federal government, in making gas a preferred fuel in the country.
” I am excited at what I am seeing here today. Everything can speak for itself. As you can see, energy is very important in the global economy and I am glad that Nigerian’s are playing key roles in the oil and gas industry.”
Sylva noted that Rainoil’s investment in gas development aligns with President Buhari’s agenda in the National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP), adding that the government has declared 2020 as “The Year of Gas”.
He said Nigeria had sufficient gas reserves to meet its energy needs as the government intensifies efforts to deepen LPG penetration and attain five million MT of LPG consumption by 2022.
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Anambra 2021: PDP Guber Aspirant Promises To Reposition Education Sector
A frontline gubernatorial aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2021 Anambra governorship election, Hon. Chris Azubogu, has promised to reposition educational sector by collaborating with members of the academia in developing key transformational policies.
Azubogu, member representing Nnewi North and South and Ekwusigo federal constituency in the House of Representatives, decried the poor conditions of educational institutions, while expressing optimism that if elected, he would reshape both state and federal owned institutions in the state.
He made this promise over a zoom meeting, when he interacted with members of Academic Frontiers Initiative (AFI), a group of lecturers in tertiary institutions committed to supporting good governance in Anambra state and Nigeria, at large.
According to him, “I have years of experience in legislation. I’ll use this wealth of experience to drive good legislation that will reshape educational institutions and other sectors.
“Good legislation is key drivers of democracy. I will use my knowledge to enact appropriate laws to drive the process. I will also be working with the academia and other stakeholders in order to realise them”.
He further said he would be paying attention to the technical and vocational skills at the secondary school level to ensure that students, who could not continue with university education, learn requisite skills to be self reliant.
Emphasising the role of research and development in tertiary institutions, the PDP aspirant assured that he would support academia to ensure the outcome of their researches are put to use.
Azubogu further tasked academia to focus on the development of the curriculum content to meet the demands of 21st century labour force. This, he said, would give competitive edge to students among their peers within and outside the country.
Assuring that he would set the ground running immediately elected, the house member remarked that he would attract investors, as well as source funds to develop the state.
Azubogu noted that he has had commendable track records in various offices he previously held.
“I’ll be a servant leader, and I shall be accountable. No one will be left behind because, I will be involving everyone in my administration. I, therefore, seek your collaboration because we will achieve a lot when we synergise,” he said.
Speaking on the state of local government in the state, he said he has developed a blueprint to get the local governments working again, stressing that it is only through local governments that governance is brought to the grassroots. He said he would conduct local government elections in the state.
Earlier, on behalf of the group, the national president, Dr. Chinedu Onyeizugbe, thanked Azubogu for honouring the zoom meeting, while remarking the non partisanship of the group. He said it was high time lecturers began to interrogate governance in Nigeria as against what was previously obtained.
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Ex- Delta Speaker Decries Marginalisation Of Ndokwa Area By Oil Firms
Former speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Olisa Imegwu, on Tuesday, sought the update of the oil production quantum of Ndokwa nation, saying that Ndokwa nation was yet to benefit in the national scheme of things.
Imegwu, who spoke to journalists in Asaba, said Ndokwa nation was ranked fifth in oil Production Quantum in 2008 and had progressed to third ranking in 2009 when its production quantum shut up from 7million to 9million, yet, the production of 2008 was still being used to date, stressing that Ndokwa must be developed to a standard.
He said, “We have a lot of constraints in Ndokwa nation and all that I have said, evidently, amounted to how Ndokwa nation has been marginalised, particularly, Ndokwa East that has been marginalised in terms of Projects distribution. It’s really unfortunate, but we must purse our goals objectively to be part of development. We are saddened that Ndokwa nation with all we have is still very far from development”.
Imegwu said that between 2007 and 2011 the total value of projects awarded was N134billion in just one sub head of three sub heads under the Federal Ministry of Works, adding that on distribution, Delta South senatorial district got N66 billion, Delta Central got N43 billion, Delta North got N25 billion, Oshimili/Aniocha got N18 billion awarded contracts, Ika was allocated N4 billion while Ndokwa Federal Constituency was allocated a paltry sum of N3 billion contracts.
He expressed the dismay of the people of Ndokwa nation, particularly known to have the highest gas reserve in West Africa, to have been schemed out of effective development plan commensurate with its contribution to the nation’s economy, and admonished Ndokwa youths to use all constitutional means available to make an updated official oil Production Quantum for Ndokwa nation possible, saying that such efforts would attract more Projects.
The former speaker said that the terrain of Ndokwa East which is prone to flood, deserved more Projects distribution, especially on dredging of the River Niger to curb the yearly occurrence of flooding, and lamented the absence of tertiary institution in Ndokwa nation\
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Enugu Assembly Passes Iwollo Polytechnic Amendment Bill
Enugu State House of Assembly has passed the amended Enugu State Polytechnic, Iwollo, law No. 1, 2015, as House bill No. 6, 2020.
The law now empowers the polytechnic, situated at Iwollo in Ezeagu Local Government of the State to have three campuses in the three senatorial districts of the state.
Speaking on the merit of the amended law on the floor of the House in Enugu on Thursday the Leader of the Assembly, Mr Ikechukwu Ezeugwu, said the multi-campus of the institution would bring about development to the rural areas.
Ezeugwu said apart from developing the rural communities where the campuses would be cited, it would create employment as well as encourage the youth in the rural areas to have access to quality higher education.
“The campuses will bring development in the new places the schools will be cited. It will give the people the opportunity to advance academically.
It will create employment for the people,” he said.
Ezeugwu expressed hope that work would be accelerated to enable them to take off for the new academic session.
Other members who contributed to the debate agreed with Ezeugwu that the multi campuses would bring rapid development to the rural dwellers where they are cited.
According to the Deputy Speaker, Mr Uche Ugwu, citing a higher institution in a given area brings about development, noting that Nsukka is what it is today because the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, is cited there.
“I move that the polytechnic be made a multi-campus. It will open the rural areas.
“Schools are one of the things that bring about opening of the rural areas. You can agree with me that Nsukka is what it is today because of the UNN,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the Assembly which resumed with zeal after the long recess occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic, passed four other bills.
They are: a bill for a law to amend the School of Public Health Nursing and Health Technology, Nsukka, Law No. 4, HB no. 7, 2020.
The House also passed the bill that sought the amendment of School of Health Technology, Oji River, Law 4, HB. 8, 2020; and the bill that sought the amendment of Survey Law Cap. 147 Revised Enugu State Law 2004, HB no. 9, 2020.
Equally passed was a consideration of a report on a bill for a law to repeal the State Agency for Community and Social Development Law No. 18, 2020 and to provide for Enactment of Enugu State Agency for Community and Social Development and for Other Connected Purposes, HB no. 2, 2020.
The new amendment changed the status of the schools of health to colleges of Health Technology.
The upgrading of the schools to colleges is to enable the institutions to access TETFUND projects.
It will also enable the colleges to award diplomas that authorise the students to go for national youth service like other universities, colleges and polytechnics.
In his remarks, the Speaker, Chief Edward Ubosi, thanked his colleagues for the wonderful job they did to ensure that the bill saw the light of the day. (NAN)
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