The
National Security Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is to collaborate with the
Society of Family positions in Nigeria to provide health care services to the
victims of disaster and emergency in the country. The director general of NEMA SALU SIDI made this known when the
president of the society led a delegation to the Agency in Abuja. Represented
by the director Relief and Rehabilitation MR.
PIODE FAYEDE, the regime stressed the need to prioritize the health care of
the victims. The president of the society DR.
AKI MOSES says it has the capability to conduct health need assessment for preventive,
corrective and rehabilitation of displaced person in the North –East of
Nigeria.
Stakeholder
in the nation’s economy has advocated a field work in the oil sector that will propel
quick implementation of the policy and renewable energy. They took the position
at the sensitization workshop on Bio fuel and development put together to the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency
(PPRA) in Abuja, Nigeria. According to the correspondent report of the
event who specified that Renewable energy had been a global trend across the
nation in search of better and cheaper sources of energy to stand the tiles of
the environmental degradation and air pollution. One of the key areas of focus
is developing bio fuel as an alternative energy source, especially with the
reality of gradual depletion of the Hydrocarbon base. The Acting Executive secretary
of the Petroleum Product Pricing
Regulatory Agency (PPRA) MR. VICTOR
SHIDO at the opening of the sensitization program on Bio fuel development said
that the nation could not be left behind investing the need. According to him,
he point out that the source of fuel consumption of the nation must not be from
import, and this forms the basis for the program.
In
a better presentation, PROFESSOR
MOHAMMED IBRAHIM of PTDL who
spoke on the topic Bio Fuel Nigerian’s New
Reality explained it became necessary for the key players in the Nation’s
economy to capitalize on the opportunity provided in a dilemma certification
policy of the federal government to achieve the drive towards renewable energy.
According to him he also advised that the right thing is to have the right
policy and to also have the right institution that will drive the policy. And
most important is to have an appropriate legal and regulatory frame work.
Representative
of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria the Deputy Director Research
Department MR. LAWRENCE ODE said funding
is the key in achieving the goal of Bio fuel development. Also the Executive
Director in the institute for Agriculture Research in the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria PROFESSOR IBRAHIM ABUBAKAR pointed out that farm
produce which is necessary in the development Bio Fuel should be grown in the
country on the large scale.
The
minister of State for Petroleum Resources DR.
IBEKA UKACHUKWU who was represented on the occasion by the TIM UKON reiterated federal commitment
to a sustainable renewable energy. According to him he said that as part of
their guide they have to look at how they can help to support a viable industry
that also does not result in fuel insecurity and that is prioritization they
need to play. Still on his comment DR.
UKACHUKWU advised Nigerians to invite current drive initiatives in the Oil
and Gas sector to enhance the growth and development of the nation’s economy.
Also
in Delta state Nigeria, the governor of the state IFEANYI OKOWA had described as worrisome as the state loses 250 barrels
of oil production daily to activities of oil pipeline vandals. Governor OKOWA who stated this in Asaba to media forum said 80% of vandalized pipelines are
in Delta State. According to correspondent report of the incident who said that
Governor OKWA who noted with
dismayed in drop in oil production in the state said the SPDC (Shell Petroleum Development Company) Pipeline vandalized by aggrieved
militants were yet to be fixed. The governor said that the pipeline had not
been exporting oil since February last year (2016). The situation had brought
the state to the fourth largest oil producer in the country. He appealed to the
SPDC to take urgent steps to repair the pipeline. According to the Governor OKOWA who said that he is appealing to
SPDC to repair the main state pipelines which pushes oil across the state.
On
the official recent visit of the Acting President YEMI OSIBANJO to the state to meet with relevant stakeholders in
the oil rich community of the Baramatu, GOVERNOR
OKOWA said that he would help aid oil pipeline vandalism in the area. He
also said that his administration will help to accord priority to peace and
security. He said that effort were being intensified to straighten the tough
club governor’s forum and embrace commission to make it impart positively on
region.
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