Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company has announced that Gusau, the capital of Zamfara state and environs will suffer a one month power outage from July 29th to August 28th, 2022.
In a statement issued by the company’s Head of Corporate Communication, Abdulazeez Abdullahi, the company said the outage from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily is at the instance of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in order for it to carry out maintenance work at the 132KV Gusau Transmission Station.
The statement reads: “The Management of Kaduna Electric hereby informs its esteemed customers in Gusau and environs that there will be interruption of supply by the Transmission Company of Nigeria from Friday, 29th July, 2022 to 27th August, 2022, from 9:00am to 5:00pm daily.
“The outage is to enable the TCN engineering crew to replace existing glass insulators with new polymer insulators.
“We sincerely apologize for the inconveniences this would cause our valued customers while assuring that electricity supply would be restored as soon as work is concluded daily”.
Prof. Sunday Bako, the Vice-Chancellor of Taraba State University, Jalingo, says the institution will establish an integrated farm that will provide a model ranch operation.
Bako gave the indication on Sunday while interacting with journalists in Jalingo.
He said that the integrated farm when completed, would produce some of the farm products locally consumed in the state.
He said that the university had engaged experts on the project which would also create employment and revenue for the university.
“We have already begun modalities to establish an integrated farm for the university.
“This farm, among many others things, will make a model ranch operation where it can produce pastures.
“The farm will produce animal feeds, especially for poultry and fish.
“This farm will also make available most of those agricultural products we consume locally,” he said.
Bako said that he would not relent on his efforts to attain his goal of making the university a world-class citadel of learning.
Nigeria’s Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), says some of the newly constructed smart schools in the country will begin operations by January 2023.
The UBEC Executive Secretary, Hamid Bobboyi, made this known when a team of Korean experts led by Professor Dae Joon Hwang of UBION Consortium paid him a courtesy visit at the end of their 4-week stay in Nigeria.
The Country Director of the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA), Son Sungil, stated that the 3-man team had been in Nigeria since July 3rd 2022 as part of the implementation of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between KOICA and UBEC in October 2021.
The objectives of the MOU are to assist Nigeria in the development of the smart schools’ project, to increase the capacity of teachers in the development and use of ICT content and to improve the access of teachers and pupils to quality teaching and learning materials.
The Team Leader, Prof. Hwang, applauded the Executive Secretary for the warm reception and collaboration received from the Commission during their stay.
He noted that the three pillars of the collaboration revolved around the supply of sophisticated recording and broadcasting studio equipment in some of the smart schools, content development with particular reference to Mathematics and Science, and capacity building for teachers and education managers across the country in the use of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Blended Learning methodology.
Also speaking during the occasion, the Co-ordinator of the Smart Schools Programme, Prof. Bashir Galadanci stated that, during their one-month stay, the Korean team of experts had extensive discussions with officials of UBEC, NERDC and NTI on the Smart Schools Programme.
The delegates also visited the Smart Schools in Lafia, Nasarawa State and Tarda, Kano State and had discussions with the SUBEB chairmen and officials of Kano and Nasarawa states respectively.
In addition, the Korean officials participated in two workshops organized by UBEC; one for the critiquing of training course materials for teachers and principals of smart schools and another for the development of blended lesson templates for use by smart schools.
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Chinese rocket debris has crashed to Earth over the Indian and Pacific oceans, US and Chinese officials say.
China’s space agency said most remains of the Long March 5 burnt in the atmosphere, identifying the Sulu Sea in the Pacific as the re-entry location.
Earlier, space experts had said the probability of the rocket landing in a populated area was extremely low.
The uncontrolled return of rocket’s core stage has raised questions about responsibility for space junk.
There have previously been calls by NASA for the Chinese space agency to design rockets to disintegrate into smaller pieces upon re-entry, as is the international norm.
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake, which constitutes a series of lakes, part of the Rift Valley Lakes in and around East African Rift, located in Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.
The biggest part of the lake belongs to Tanzania (46%) and DR Congo (40%), however, Lake Tanganyika is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake, and also second deepest in the world.
As it is very long, the name comes from the term ‘Tanganika’, which means ‘the great lake spreading out like a plain’, or ‘plain-like lake’.
It is 676 kilometers (420 miles) long, with an average of 50 kilometers (31 miles) width.
Covering an area of 32,900 square km (12,700 square mi), this lake can prevent ‘turnover’ of water masses, which means that much of the lower depths of the lake are so-called ‘fossil water’ and are anoxic (lacking oxygen).
The main inflow is from Ruzizi, Malagarasi and Kalambo Rivers, with some other small rivers, but the outflow is from the Lukuga River which empties in the Congo River drainage.
At first this lake was discovered in the mid 1800’s by the English explorers Richard Burton and John Speke, where they pursued it as the source of the Nile, arriving at its shores in February of 1858, only to discover that the Ruzizi River in the north, which they thought to be the Nile, flowed into and not out of the lake.
The fertile circulating surface water, although not tidal, provides abundant plankton for its inhabitants which in turn provides much needed protein for both the local and export markets.
The stiff winds that blow off the surrounding mountains aid the continual movement which inhibits the spread of bilharzia, the parasitic disease carried by shallow water snails.
Lake Tanganyika boasts over 350 species of fish of which most are endemic.
Like Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika is extremely old, and the combination of its age and ecological isolation has led to the evolution of unique fish populations.
Since new species are being discovered continually in these remarkable lakes, it is difficult to determine which has the highest diversity, but they at least share the distinction of being the top two lakes in the world in terms of biodiversity, whilst Lake Tanganyika has the highest proportion of endemicity, concentrated mainly in the Zambian waters of the lake.
Nowadays as an important source of food and revenue from the tourism, this lake plays an important role in the four countries sharing this amazingly alluring lake, which boasts the economies of the countries, and also it is one really beautiful jewel from them.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, has approved a new Maritime Doctrine, in which he refers to the Black Sea as a “zone of national interest” and also calls it a threat to NATO.
In the new Russian doctrine, the “borders and zones of the country’s national interests” are marked primarily by the Arctic, Black, Okhotsk and Bering seas.
Vladimir Putin issued a threat in saying that the Russian Armed Forces will receive Zircon hypersonic missile systems in the coming months. The Admiral Gorshkov frigate will be the first carrier of such weapons. According to Putin, there are “no obstacles” for such weapon systems.
The maritime doctrine states that the main threats to the security of the Russian Federation are “the course of the United States for dominance in the world’s oceans and the growth of NATO activity.”
The Russian president called the lack of the required number of basing points for Russian ships abroad “a risk for the maritime activities of the Russian Federation.”
Russia will increase the combat capabilities of its Navy “to ensure national security and protect interests in the world’s oceans.”
Putin has planned the development of a shipbuilding complex in the far east of Russia that will focus on the construction of aircraft carriers.
A Kenyan court has ordered vice presidential nominee Rigathi Gachagua to repay $1.7 million which it determined were the proceeds of corruption, according to local media reports.
High Court Judge Esther Maina ruled the money came from government agencies but there was no evidence that Gachagua had supplied any goods or services, the Business Daily newspaper reported.
Gachugua said the judgment was intended to undermine his candidacy in the Aug. 9 election on presidential candidate William Ruto’s ticket, adding that he has instructed his lawyers to appeal, claiming Maina had refused his lawyers’ bid to challenge the evidence brought against him.
Ruto is the deputy president under current President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has denounced Ruto’s candidacy and backed veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga instead. Ruto and Odinga, the favorites on the ballot, have both pledged to stamp out corruption if elected.
Gachagua’s accounts were frozen in 2020 following a request by the government’s Asset Recovery Agency.
Gachagua, a first-time lawmaker and former government administrator, told a campaign meeting in late June that if elected, he will unfreeze the cash and build a rural home to host his supporters for entertainment sessions over roasted meat and porridge.
Zambia’s creditors pledged to negotiate a restructuring of the country’s debts on Saturday, a move International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva welcomed as “clearing the way” for a $1.4 billion IMF program.
The creditor committee, co-chaired by China and France, said in a statement released by G-20 chair Indonesia that it supported Zambia’s “envisaged IMF upper credit tranche program and its swift adoption by the IMF Executive Board.”
In 2020, Zambia became the first African country in the pandemic era to default. The restructuring of its external debt, which amounted to more than $17 billion at the end of 2021, is seen by many analysts as a test case.
Zambia reached a staff-level agreement with the IMF on a $1.4 billion, three-year extended credit facility in December, conditional upon its ability to reduce debt to levels the IMF deems sustainable.
Zambia’s government welcomed the creditors’ pledge and its unlocking of IMF support.
On Friday, the finance ministry said it was canceling $2 billion in undisbursed loans.
Zambia’s creditor committee said that the restructuring terms would be finalized in a memorandum of understanding, without providing further details.
It also called on private creditors to “commit without delay” to negotiating debt relief on terms at least as favorable.
Kevin Daly, who chairs a committee of holders of Zambia’s Eurobonds, welcomed the bilateral creditors’ statement, but repeated a call to be given access to the IMF’s Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA), which forms the basis of negotiations.
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