The Aba Integrated Power Project, Aba IPP, said it will provide 95 percent uninterrupted power supply to the Abia State capital, Aba, a commercial city-center including the over 50,000 small and medium scale businesses SMEs, located there and other surrounding towns.
The Aba IPP, owned by Geometric Power Limited, also controls four power sub-stations around the state with an additional three, state-managed sub-stations bringing it to a total of seven sub-stations in the state; the project which is being funded jointly by local and foreign investors is already 95 percent completed with an estimated capacity of 183 mega watts.
Speaking with Sweetcrude in Abuja, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Geometric Power Limited, Prof. Berth Nnaji said: “The project in Aba was motivated by the desire of the people in the area, who are in industrial and commercial space to have more reliable electricity. And this came about by the visit of the Minister of Finance during President Obasanjo’s time, that is, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who took the President of the World Bank, James Wolfesohn, to Aba to meet with Ariaria SMEs.
Nnaji noted that there are over 50,000 SME industries in Aba, all of whom confessed that that their major problem is inadequate electricity supply.” They said if they had electricity, they can run multiple shifts as against the running of just one shift.”
Apart from increasing working hours, the operators said they can produce seamless products and reduce inconsistencies in the number of products they produced.
“If you want to produce for export, you have to make your products to have certain qualities and consistencies. But they cannot do it now. So for people in the granite industry or shoe industry to have orders from the big stores of Europe, America and so on, they have to have such consistency and quality. They are running small generators and in fact, literally there is a business for renting small generators for processing. And that is just not the way these things are supposed to work. So that was the motivation,” Nnaji added.
Based on the leased agreement with the Federal Government, Nnaji said the Aba IPP was able to attract some investors and banks to develop the project.
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There are several types of toxins that can build up in the body. If you are fighting cancer, it is especially important you remove these toxins from your system or you will never be able to effectively deal with the disease.
As you have learned from previous chapters, you can physically remove a cancerous tumor, but unless you also remove the original cause, the cancer will ultimately return.
Type 1: Cellular Toxicity Cellular toxicity is formed when there is a buildup of acidity in the body preventing the body from getting rid of dangerous toxins. The toxins have nowhere else to go and end up taking residence in our vital cells. You don’t need me to tell you that this simply isn’t good.
Type 2: Heavy Metal Toxicity Do you eat a lot of fresh water fi sh? Do you have a mouthful of amalgam fi llings? Th en you may have heavy metal toxicity. Heavy metal toxicity results from years of being exposed to toxic heavy metals. The body becomes weak and vulnerable to disease. If you receive a cancer diagnosis it’s vital to do what you can to remove these deadly heavy metals from your body. The best way to do this is to take three days to drink only pure water (and organic herbal teas) and consume organic and locally grown fresh fruits and veggies.
Type 3: Chemical Toxicity On a daily basis we’re all exposed to chemicals. Depending on your body’s own unique makeup these chemicals can build up and lead to chemical toxicity or your body can simply expel the chemicals as long as there aren’t too many on a daily basis to deal with. Chemicals used to clean your house, wash your car, do the dishes and laundry, as well as kill weeds in your fl ower garden can all contribute to chemical toxicity. Th is buildup eventually catches up with the body resulting in disease as well as organ and skin problems.
Type 4: Colon Toxicity You may have seen some of the news stories of patients engaging in colon cleansing to remove colon toxins. A glance at any one of these pictures reveals a lot of disturbing material coming out of the body during a colon cleansing to fi ght colon toxicity. From entire, intact vitamin pills to what looks like hardened rubber, it’s shocking to find what’s been sitting inside of your colon for years, maybe even decades.
Colon toxicity is the result of hard to digest food and unpassed fecal matter staying inside of the colon for far longer than it is supposed to stay. When these matters aren’t eliminated from the body these toxic materials begin to decay and release their toxins into the body. This not only adds more dangerous toxins to the body it prevents the proper absorption of nutrients from the other foods we’re eating. I recommend regular colon cleanses.
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PARENTS of Emmanuel Iyamah, the six-month-old infant born with a hole-in-the-heart, have sent a Save-Our-Soul appeal to Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan.
In the appeal, Patrick and Virginia, little Emmanuel’s father and mother respectively, are appealing for the Governor’s assistance towards facilitating their son’s crucial corrective heart surgery projected at N2 million A medical report from the Paediatric Cardiology Unit, LUTH, describes Emmanuel’s condition as symptomatic congenital heart disease and confirmed by echocardiography to be a heart murmur and bronchopneumonia.
The couple who brought the appeal along with their ailing infant to Vanguard;s Corporate Head Office in Lagos, lamented that since his birth on September 25, 2012 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, little Emmanuel’s life has been a series of trials and challenges
Patrick, a sales representative hails from Idumuesah in Ika North LGA of Delta State, while his wife,Virginia, is native to Abavo, in Ika South LGA of Delta State, noted that Emmanuel has been in and out of LUTH so many times with different drugs administered on him to no avail.
Narrating his ordeal, he stated: “We are appealing to Governor Uduaghan to use his good office to help save our son whose only hope is to undergo corrective heart surgery in India. The condition is beyond doctors at LUTH so we were referred to India for this much-needed surgery over three months ago, but we have been unable to pursue the option because of lack of funds. This is our big drawback.
“We have spent all that we have on tests and drugs. Now we need help to raise the N2 million. We are pleading with Governor Uduaghan and well meaning Nigerians to help restore our son’s hope for life.
“Our expectation has been to see changes, but the reverse has been the case. The situation is geting worse. He is in constant pain and cries ceaselessly,” Patrick noted.
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A Consultant Gynaecologist, Dr. John Idahosa, has said that 40 percent of infertility problem is attributable to men, and dismissed common belief that only women have infertility issues.
Speaking during a three- day free medical programme tagged ‘Breaking the Barriers of Bareness’ organised by Grace House Church, Idahosa said men and women contribute equally to infertility.
“Looking at our society today, a man without a child has no saying in the society’. Erectile dysfunction (impotence), that is the inability to achieve erection or a tendency to sustain only a brief erection, is known as the major cause of infertility in men.
Idahosa further noted that causes of impotence include mental stress, adding that medication, illness, excess smoking, excess alcohol intake and consistence sleeping on a brighter light could also cause erectile dysfunction.
He advised men to increase their intake of multivitamins as help boost their sperm count.
Fibroid and infections also are the causes of infertility in women.
According to Host Pastor, Omar Pela: “The issue of childlessness has led to many broken marriages but we ar eusing this the medium to break every yoke of bareness medically and spiritually.
“We decided to also include the seminar to impact the knowledge about the problem and how to prevent it as well as conduct a free fertility screening for those willing to break the yoke of bareness in their lives, free of charge.
Pela urged women and couples believing God for the fruit of the womb to seek solution without shame.
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SENIOR Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, is not finding Federal Government’s announcement that N384 billion will be used to settle the terminal benefits of workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, ahead of the privatization of PHCN’s assets, funny.
The association has not only rejected it like its National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE counterpart, but went further to petition the Minister of Power, reminding the Government that labour, only gave conditional support to the planned privatization of the sector.
SSAEAC in the petition through its President-General and General Secretary, Engineer Bede Opara and Biodun Ogunsegha, a lawyer, warned government that if it went ahead with the process of privatization without carrying labour along, it would be definitely counter- productive.
The petition read “In furtherance of the agreement that the Unions in the Power Sector signed with Government on 11th December, 2013, the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), engaged the services of an International Consultant: Alexander Forbes, to compute, using the necessary variables to arrive at the total terminal benefits due to staff of PHCN and also determine the individual benefits. The Unions were invited to work with the Consultancy and BPE, to diligently carryout this assignment.”
“At the meeting with the Consultant that was held on 14th to 15th January, 2013 in Lagos, our representatives (of the two in-house unions) on the computation of terminal/severance benefits, reported fundamental observations/errors in the computation as follows: the salary scale used in computing Gratuity is not PHCN Salary scale as at June 2012, as agreed with negotiation team under the leadership of SGF.
Souvenir entitlement was omitted in computation of total entitlements, as agreed with Comrade Hassan Sumonu Committee, in compliance with our 2010 Conditions of Service. The variables used in the formula for annuity by the consultant are not realistic: (a) interest rate, (b) inflation rate (c) discount rate, and (d) life expectancy of each staff. Alexander Forbes used:
?5% as inflation rate (pension increase), instead of current rate of 12.5%.
?14% as discount rate, while the current rate is 11%.
The data used for all staff are not correct in addition to unclear assumed life expectancy of each worker.”
According to SSAEAC, “We are left with no option than to bring this to your notice, for immediate redress by directing the Consultants through the BPE to correct these abnormalities to enable the reform to go on as planned. While our Union and staff re-affirm our conditional acceptance of Government reform despite our preferred position, we will not allow our members to be cheated.
Any attempt to the contrary of the agreement reached will be resisted by the workers. It is in the light of the above that we were surprised at the announcement of a N384 billion approval by the Federal Executive Council as representing total terminal benefits to PHCN Employees.”
“This announcement was grossly misplaced because the Alexander Forbes Consultant engaged by BPE, had not concluded his assignment and no figure had been emanated from his work. We do not understand the rational for announcing such a figure. It should be noted also that, only the Unions as representatives of the workers can confirm the basis of computations while individual staff will verify their data.
The proposed issuance of statements of workers’ terminal benefits at the exclusion of our Association headquarters by BPE will be counter-productive. The earlier this verification of staff data is done the better for progress of the reforms. We remind the government that our support for the reform is conditional upon the final settlement of all labour liabilities, hence the long period of negotiations and the resultant Agreement which upheld our Condition of Service 2010.
It would be recalled that barely 24 hours after the government said it had approved N384 billion for the payment of all entitlements of workers of PHCN, and process of the payment expected to begin a day after (21-02-13), NUEE rejected government position, threatening to shut down the industry, should government fail to reverse its position and perceived provocative utterances.
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The office of the first lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, Monday, said the visit of the first lady to Germany and other European countries was for routine medical check up as well as to visit her ailing mother and there is no need for negative insinuation as is being done in the media.
A statement by the Special Assistant to the first lady Ayo Osinlu Monday urged Nigerians to develop the habit of praying for their leaders as is done in other countries.
According to the aide of the first lady, “It is unfortunate that again, some media houses have allowed themselves to be used by dedicated mischief makers against the basic tenet of professional journalism, which regards truth as sacred.
He noted that “for the avoidance of doubts and ambiguities, we wish to state that the First Lady travelled to Dubai, after which she proceeded to Paris, France, to participate in the 1st Green Women Conference, which took place in Paris on March 17, 2013 where she received the 2013 Global Women Leaders’ Award for Peace.
“She thereafter proceeded to Italy from where she went to Germany to see her mother, Mama Sisi, who is currently receiving medical attention.
“The First Lady is spending sometime overseeing the management of her mother’s condition.
“She is also using the opportunity to spend quality time with her holidaying children before they return to school, as they are with her to see their grandmother.
“It is notable that Her Excellency has a history of visiting the hospital in Germany even before she became the First Lady, thus making her medical trips routine.
It is also instructive to state that medical experts have recommended that every human being should undergo medical check up every six months, even if not suffering ill health.
“Therefore, hospital visitations of our leaders should not become leading media issues or attract disrespectful comments, just as the current circumstances of former President Mandela and other African leaders in similar situations, and even those who died, have not attracted negative comments from their people.
“While urging a more charitable disposition towards one another as our brothers’ keepers, we wish to express our appreciation for the sincere interests of those who have shown genuine concern through their inquiries” he said.
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Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party, said he backs the application of the death penalty, describing it as a “natural law” in a television interview to be broadcast Monday evening.
“We say that capital punishment is a natural law, a soul for a soul. And whoever threatens the life of another must know that his life is also threatened,” the Ennahda party’s veteran chief told news channel France 24.
He was asked in particular about the punishment of rapists, after a number of incidents in Tunisia, including the case of a three-year-old girl repeatedly raped by the caretaker of a children’s nursery, which has caused shock and anger.
“This crime must be sanctioned in the severest possible way and I would even say yes, by capital punishment,” Ghannouchi said.
“Rape is like a death sentence for a woman and for the entire family.”
Under Tunisia’s penal code, rape, murder, acts of terrorism and plotting against the state are punishable by death, but in practice no executions have been carried out in Tunisia since 1991.
Amna Guellali, the Tunisian representative of Human Rights Watch, said she regretted Ghannouchi’s comments, which follow efforts by rights groups to get the death penalty’s abolition inscribed in the new constitution currently being drafted.
“It is a setback, given that Tunisia has a moratorium on the death penalty. It’s a challenge to that and it’s quite serious,” she told AFP.
Guellali said the Islamist leader was publicly expressing the position of a number of members of his party, who believe the death penalty is “something natural, an obligation in Islam and a just penalty for… an atrocity that has been committed.”
Ennahda, which heads Tunisia’s coalition government, is frequently accused by the secular opposition and rights activists of seeking to Islamise society and impose the key provisions of sharia, or Islamic law.
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Nelson Mandela spent part of Monday with his family at his hospital bedside, the South African government said, adding that there was no significant change in the condition of the frail anti-apartheid hero.
The 94-year-old former president and Nobel peace laureate has been in hospital since late Wednesday being treated for a recurrent bout of pneumonia.
“He spent part of Family Day today with some members of his family,” the presidency said in a statement in its first update on Mandela’s health on Monday.
“There is no significant change in his condition” since the previous presidency statement on Sunday night which said doctors had reported “a further improvement in his condition”.
In a report on Saturday, the presidency said doctors had drained excess fluid that had built up on the lining of his lungs because of infection.
The procedure, described as the tapping of a pleural effusion, has helped him breathe without difficulty, it said.
South Africa’s revered first black president was admitted to an undisclosed hospital late Wednesday for his third hospitalisation in four months. It remains unclear how long he may stay.
In December last year, he was in hospital for 18 days for treatment for the lung infection and gallstones surgery, his longest admission since he walked free from jail in 1990.
He was diagnosed with early-stage tuberculosis in 1988 during his 27-year jail term and has long had problems with his lungs. He has also had treatment for prostate cancer and has suffered stomach ailments.
Mandela’s latest health troubles have led to outpouring of prayers and good wishes from around the world, including from US President Barack Obama.
South African President Jacob Zuma’s office said Mandela’s family “appreciate the support they have been receiving from the public”.
But Mandela’s illness has also seen South Africans come to terms with the mortality of the father of the “rainbow nation”.
Instead of being concerned about his illness, “we should rather celebrate what he stood for, and what he continues to stand for, that he has been an icon of peace, an icon of service,” Catholic priest Father Sebastian Rossouw told worshippers in the Soweto township on Sunday.
At home and abroad, Mandela is idolised as the architect of South Africa’s peaceful transition from white-ruled police state to hope-filled democracy, a unifying symbol in a country still riven by racial tensions and deep inequality.
After leading his African National Congress to victory in the first multi-racial elections in 1994, Mandela served a single five-year term as president before taking up a new role as a roving elder statesman and leading campaigner against AIDS.
He retired from public life in 2004 and has not appeared in public since July 2010 when he was at the Soccer City stadium in Soweto for the World Cup final.
It is the second time that Mandela has been hospitalised in less than a month, after spending a night for check-ups on March 9.
Pleural effusion is the accumulation of water between the lining covering the lung and that of the chest wall, experts say.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has said he is looking forward to facing Galatasaray in the quarter-finals of the Champions League because he believes Real Madrid fare better against sides that attack them.
“The game against Galatasaray will be wide open and very balanced,” he told Madrid’s website.
“We have to play well, like we do at home in the Champions League. We know that they have a good squad that also attacks a lot and that’s good because our chances of winning increase when the opponent plays us one-on-one.”
Galatasaray will face Real on Wednesday boosted by the acquisitions of vastly-experienced Champions League winning duo Didier Drogba and Wesley Sneijder in the January transfer window, whilst they also have the competition’s joint top-scorer in Burak Yilmaz.
The Turkish international is tied with Ronaldo himself on eight goals and the Portuguese is full of admiration for the form shown by Yilmaz.
“He’s a player who’s doing well in the Champions League because scoring eight goals is hard. As always, we have to be focused. The defenders have to be on the ball because it’s crucial that we make it to the semi-finals.”
Should Real make it to their third consecutive Champions League semi-final another key player is likely to be Mesut Ozil.
The German has shown glimpses of his best form over recent weeks and Ronaldo lauded his teammate’s contribution of late.
“Mesut is in really top form and he’s an important player for us. He’s proved that he’s a key player in the last few seasons.
“I love playing with him because he’s a really talented player and we understand each other well. That’s why I’m really comfortable with him and I hope it stays that way until the end of the season.”
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The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has empowered 20 youths drawn from the disputed oil rich communities of Nembe in Bayelsa and Kula in Rivers State, with life-sustaining skills as part of measures aimed at boosting capacity and increasing wealth portfolio in the Niger Delta.
The oil giant also helped the beneficiaries, who are mainly young women, to establish small scale businesses that would enable them cater for themselves and their families for life. Receiving their certificates of merit and business starter packs in Yenagoa, the beneficiaries of the LiveWIRE Business Enterprise Training for “Swamp 2” host communities of SPDC Eastern Operations were full of joy and excitement as they commended the company for engineering a turn-around in their lives.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony, SPDC Manager, Government and Community Development Relations Bayelsa/Delta, Mr. Evans Krukrubo , said the scheme was designed in line with the company’s philosophy of contributing to economic empowerment and job creation for youths and women in its area of operation.
He said, “The LiveWIRE programme, which has trained over 5000 youth and women entrepreneurs since 2003, aims to provide access to entrepreneurship training, business development services as well as start-up capital to establish and expand youth-driven businesses.”
According to him, “the beneficiaries of the scheme have now created employment opportunities for thousands of youths across the region, thereby contributing to the reduction of youth unemployment in the region.”
Also speaking, Mr. Hope Nouka, Manager, Sustainable Development and Community Relations, described the programme as a critical step towards the qualitative empowerment of the youths in the region.
He urged the participants to utilize the skills acquired by putting starter packs given to them into good use to improve their individual lives and the advancement of their families and communities.
In his remarks, the state commissioner for Energy, Mr. Francis Ikio, thanked SPDC for empowering the youths and charged the participants to take advantage of the opportunity to excel and empower others desperate to acquire similar skills, own and manage their independent businesses.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr. Prekake Gede, the commissioner however noted that the oil giant cannot achieve sustainable development in the region without the active collaboration of other actors in development. He, therefore, charged other major players to fashion viable partnerships aimed at delivering on the needed social performance commitments to achieve the desired impact and sustainability.
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