From Saturday, households in South Korea will have to pay more to use electricity.
The Korea Electric Power Corporation, or KEPCO announced that the electricity rates will rise by 2.5 Korean won per kilowatt hour in the fourth quarter.
Previously, the government announced an additional 4.9 won increase for October, so in total, the electricity rate will jump by 7.4 won.
This means bills will go up by around 2,270 won or 1.6 U.S. dollars a month, on average for a four-person household.
Businesses that use large amounts of electricity will be charged more, depending on the voltage.
Authorities say the hike comes following a sharp rise in global energy prices, but added that they plan on normalizing the rates in stages next year.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has also announced rate hikes for gas.
Gas is currently 16.99 won per megajoule.
But the rate will increase by almost 16-percent, or 2.7 won per megajoule, starting October.
This means the monthly average for households will rise by 5,400 won or nearly four U.S dollars.
For businesses with moderate energy consumption like restaurants, hairdressers, and lodging facilities, rates will jump by 16.4 percent.
Rates for businesses that require more gas use like public baths will increase by over 17 percent.
This is a big hike considering that rates were increased by single digits last quarter.
The ministry explained that this was caused by soaring international gas prices as well as the weakening of the Korean currency against the greenback.
Some notable individuals have been named To Receive Nigeria’s 2022 National Award on Oct 11.
They include:
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, GCON Amina Muhammed, GCON Jim Ovia, CFR Tony Elumelu, CFR Abdul Samad Rabiu, CFR Herbert Wigwe, CON Chimamanda Adiche, OFR Iyin Aboyeji, OON Shola Akinlade, OON Ezra Olubi, OON
President Buhari also listed his late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari among the 437 nominees for the 2022 National Honours Award.
More on the list include presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The investiture is billed to hold on 11 October at the State House in Abuja.
Out of the 437 nominees, five persons were listed for Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON), 54 for Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) and 67 for the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).
Others are 64 for Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 101 for Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), 75 for Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), 56 for Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) and eight for Federal Republic Medal (FRM).
While the late Abba Kyari would be honoured posthumously with the CFR, Mr Adesina and Mrs Okonjo-Iweala would be honored with OON and GCON respectively.
Other recipients include serving and former governors, serving and former presiding officers of the National Assembly, serving and former Chief Justices of Nigeria and serving and former members of the National Assembly.
Others are serving and former service chiefs, traditional rulers, retired public servants, lawyers, philanthropists, businessmen, ministers and members of the academia.
GCON Apart from Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, the other recipients of the GCON are the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola, his predecessor; Tanko Muhammad and UN Deputy Secretary General; Amina Mohammed.
CFR Prominent on the list of recipients for CFR include Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor; former Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and Appeal Court president, Monica Mensem, and former Army Chief, Tukur Buratai.
Others are Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali, his predecessor, Mohammed Adamu, Emir of Lafia, Sidi Bage, and Tor Tiv, James Ayatse, amongst others.
OFR Nominees in this category include Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Ignatius Kaigama, CEO of the NNPCL, Mele Kyari, Nasiru Bayero and Muiz Banire.
Others are Ishaq Bello, Aliyu El-Nafaty and Kehinde Aina, amongst others.
OON Some nominees in this category include National Assembly members such as Alhassan Doguwa, Muktar Betara, Ndudi Elumelu and Nkiruka Onyejeocha.
Others are a former Permanent Secretary, Sunday Echono, NBA President Yakubu Maikyau, Sarki Abba and Sabiu (Tunde) Yusuf, amongst others.
MFR In this category are Sanusi Lemu, late DIGJoseph Egunike (posthumous), Haliru Nababa and Burna Boy.
Others are Simon Shango, Billy Okoye, Akwa Okon and Emeka Agbanari, amongst others.
MON Notable in this category are 2Face Idibia, Shehu Othman, Teni the entertainer and Abubakar Maikano.
Nigeria would consider buying China’s newly certified C919 passenger jet as it grows the country’s fledgling carrier Nigeria Air to 30 planes by around 2025, Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said on Saturday.
Sirika said the new airline would have a mixture of Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) planes, but added the carrier is also willing to look at the Chinese narrowbody jet, which Chinese regulators certified on Friday.
“We haven’t looked at that C919. But if it’s as good as the others then why not,” he told newsmen on the sidelines of the United Nation’s aviation agency’s triennial assembly in Montreal, Canada.
On Friday, China hailed the development of its first medium-haul passenger jet as the embodiment of the country’s drive towards self-sufficiency, with safety approval awarded to a plane that aims to challenge Western aircraft giants for orders.
The first C919 aircraft, designed to compete with popular single-aisle models made by Airbus and Boeing, will be delivered by the end of the year, state Xinhua News Agency said.
It remains unclear when the plane might be certified by the United States or Europe, opening the way to sales in most foreign markets, but industry analysts say it will be up to a decade before China can seriously tackle the existing Boeing-Airbus duopoly.
“China and Nigeria (have a) very cordial and friendly relationship with mutual benefits,” Sirika said.
For decades, China has loaned billions of dollars to Africa to build railroads, power plants and highways as it deepened ties with the continent while extracting minerals and oil.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is the top importer of Chinese goods, hoovering up $23 billion worth in 2021.
The maiden edition of the annual pan Africa Real Estate Summit 2022 is set to hold 7th and 8th of October 2022 at Lagos Oriental Hotel and Muson Center Onikan, Lagos, south-west Nigeria.
Organisers say Day 1 Certificate Masterclass for Real Estate Practitioners holds Friday 7 October 2022 at Oriental Hotel, Lagos.
The Sessions Include, Technology and IT Solutions for Real Estate, Customer Care Service for Real Estate, Digital Marketing for Real Estate, and Organizational Leadership for Real Estate Executives.
The certificate masterclass is designed for Real Estate Agents who want to be top producers and increase sales and newbies who want to begin a Career in Real Estate.
Day 2 General Sessions holds at Agip Recital Hall, Muson Center Onikan Lagos. Highlights of the day include Keynote presentations, panel discussions, brand exhibitions, award presentations, networking, and Real Estate Modelling.
Keynote presentations and panel discussions include Real Estate Investment Opportunities in Africa, Real Estate Technology and Innovation, and Real Estate and Facility Management.
The Award categories include International Real Estate Agency of the Year, Affordable Housing Estate of the Year, Real Estate Personality of the Year, Real Estate Tech Innovation of the Year, and the Africa Real Estate Excellence Awards.
The winners of this category are selected by the advisory board/awards planning committee). Also, World’s Greatest Records in partnership with the Africa Real Estate Summit will recognize and appreciate outstanding individuals and organizations at the event.
Astronomers have made a sparkling discovery in what was the very first full-colour image released from the new super space telescope James Webb.
The picture, presented to the world in July by US President Joe Biden, shows a fantastically deep view of the cosmos, billions of years into the past.
And it’s in that remarkable vista that researchers have now picked out what they believe to be the most distant globular clusters ever identified.
Globulars are dense star collections.
What’s more, these stars are generally really quite old and relatively pristine: they have fewer of the heavier chemical elements that taint more modern stars such as our Sun.
Our Milky Way Galaxy, in which our Sun lives, has more than 100 of these compact groupings littered around itself, but when and how they formed is still something of a puzzle.
The Biden Webb image should improve our understanding.
Russia has withdrawn its troops from the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman, in a move seen as a significant setback for its campaign in the east.
The retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in the town, Russia’s defence ministry said.
Recapturing Lyman is of strategic significance for Ukraine.
The town had been used as a logistics hub by Russia, and could give Ukrainian troops access to more territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Video footage shared online showed Ukrainian soldiers waving their national flag on the outskirts of the town.
The battlefield setback prompted the Chechen leader and hardline Moscow ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, to comment that Russia should consider using low-yield nuclear weapons in the face of such defeats.
Lyman is in Donetsk – one of four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions which Russia declared it was annexing on Friday. Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the move as an illegal land-grab.
An adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister told the BBC that recent gains around Lyman – following days of intense fighting – represented a “considerable success”.
Russian fighters had been given the chance to surrender, Yurik Sak said, and would face better treatment as prisoners of war than from the Russian military leadership.
Shortly afterwards, the Kremlin said it was withdrawing its forces from the town, using its Soviet-era name of Krasnyi (Red) Lyman, acknowledging that the Ukrainians had “significant superiority in forces” in the area.
Military analysts say that Kyiv currently has momentum in the war, and it has vowed to forge ahead with a counter-offensive to reclaim all territory under occupation.
Gidan Makama Museum Kano or Kano Museum is a museum in Kano, Nigeria. This building served as temporary palace of Kano before the current palace Gidan Rumfa was constructed in the 15th century.
The museum has a significant collections of arts, crafts and items of historic interest related to the Kano area.
Located in a 15th-century historical building, which is recognised as a National Monument by the Government of Nigeria.
The museum is divided into 11 galleries, each with their own centre of focus.
Galleries include the Zaure or the main entrance hall with displays of traditional materials, city walls and maps of Kano, the history of statehood, Kano in the 19th century, the Civil War, economy, industry and music.
An open space inside the museum acts as a performance stage for a Koroso dance and drama group.
History
The house was originally built in the 15th century for Muhammad Rumfa then the young grandchild of the monarch who had just been appointed Makama Kano, a traditional title.
Rumfa later became King and moved to a new palace but subsequent Makamas lived in the building.
After the British capture of Kano in 1903, the place briefly served as an office for the colonial officers in Kano.
The structure was later divided into three parts. One section became a museum ran by the Department of Antiquities, another became a primary school and a third maintained the original intention as a residential building.
Gidan Makama is now part of museums under management of the National Commission of Museums and Monuments and one of the old structures depicting traditional Hausa architecture.
The structure originally contained mud walls typical of the period but in later years some modern renovation work has taken place.
Museum
The museum is located on Emir Palace road and it is divided into 11 galleries with each containing some aspects of traditional Kanawa artifacts, pictures, musical instruments, handicraft and materials.
The galleries are the rooms and courtyards of the old Makamas and depicts the style of a traditional residence of a Kano aristocrat.
The entrance of the gates exhibited some historical pots believed to have been excavated at Kofar Kabuga, a gate within the Kano city wall and also two colonial cannons. The building hosts 11 galleries.
Garapan is the most urban area, major tourist center and also the largest village located on the island of Saipan, which forms the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
The history of the village begins from the Spanish colonial period when the Chamorro people were forcibly relocated from other islands, and then housed before their transfer to Guam.
The forced transfer of the Chamorros to Guam was completed by 1749 and Saipan was recorded as uninhabited.
The village name of Garapan derived from the Refaluwasch (Carolinian) name of Arabwal (Gharabwan), so named for the vine with heart-shaped leaves found along the beach there by a group from Satawal who arrived here to settle around the year 1815.
However, between 1865 and 1869, the Chamorros who were forcibly relocated, now started a settlement in the area of the village, but still apart from the Refaluwasch (Carolinian) community.
The village was selected by the Empire of Japan when Japan acquired the South Seas Mandate from the League of Nations in 1920 to be the capital of their holdings in the Mariana Islands.
Under the Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, the town rapidly developed, with a school, hospital, courthouse, bank, newspaper offices, cinema, and numerous public buildings constructed.
By the mid 1930s, Garapan had a population of approximately 14,000 people, mostly Japanese and ethnic Koreans, Taiwanese and Okinawans, and was nicknamed “Tokyo of the South Seas”.
However, this prosperity the people here faced, was up until 1944, when the World War II was in progress and also in the Battle of Saipan, Garapan was totally destroyed.
Those who survived the Battle, were forcibly repatriated to the Japanese home islands after the surrender of Japan and the ruins of Garapan remained un-populated until the late 1960s and 1970s, when the area was redeveloped into large resort hotels and condominiums for the tourist industry.
Some of the few remaining structures from the Japanese period, such as the Nan’yo-cho Saipan Hospital, are preserved on the National Register of Historic Places. Nowadays, the village as well as the Northern Mariana Islands are part of the overseas territories of the United States of America, which are making them really important in every sphere.
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