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  • ExxonMobil to battle malaria with $5.7m

    ExxonMobil is committing $5.7 million to support local and global organisations working to eliminate malaria around the world.

    This year’s grants, announced in conjunction with World Malaria Day, will continue the company’s nearly 20-year effort to reduce the global burden of malaria, a disease that still causes an estimated 435,000 deaths yearly.

    According to a statement issued by the Manager, Media and Communications, ExxonMobil Nigeria, OgeUdeagha, ExxonMobil’s malaria initiative has worked to advance progress against malaria though partnerships focused on developing the next generation of global health leaders and building health system capacity by supporting education and improving access to tools for malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

    “We focus our attention on local and global organisations that deliver health services and supplies directly to affected communities,” said Kevin Murphy, president, ExxonMobil Foundation.

    “While great progress continues to be made in saving lives from malaria around the world, important work remains to prevent the disease’s resurgence.”

    ExxonMobil works with partners in Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea to identify and promote solutions to fight the disease.

    Activities and public events planned in those countries to commemorate World Malaria Day include voluntary testing and counselling sessions, mosquito net distribution, community events and public awareness campaigns.

    This year’s grant recipients include ADPP Angola, Africare, Baylor College of Medicine, Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA), Friends of the Global Fight, Grassroot Soccer, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Jhpiego, Malaria No More, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Seed Global Health, Special Olympics, TchovaTchova, ExxonMobil Global Health Scholars at the University of Oxford and Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN).

    Since 2000, ExxonMobil has invested a total of $170 million, supporting the delivery of 15 million bed nets to prevent mosquito bites, the administration of five million anti-malarial treatments and the distribution of 3.9 million rapid diagnostic kits. The company has also supported the training of 700,000 health workers.

  • ‘Why oil sector is prone to manipulation’

    THE oil industry will continue to be prone to manipulations  as long as the country imports petroleum products, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) President, Williams Akporeha, has said.

    His statement follows speculations that the Federal Government may have yielded to pressures by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to  remove oil subsidy.

    In an interview on phone, he said rumours would not have arisen had the country fixed its refineries and stopped importation.

    Akporeha said: “Our over-dependence on imported petroleum products has, unfortunately, made us to be very vulnerable to antics and manipulations of local and foreign manipulators. As a stakeholder in the oil and gas industry, we are not aware of such plan. Sadly, this unhealthy speculation led to panic buying and created slight hitches in the country’s downstream sector.

    “The purported ban on fuel subsidy by the government has resulted in panic buying, as marketers were hoarding fuel in order to increase the fuel price. In the event that the four state-owned refineries were producing optimally, there would not have been the need for importation and guessing from anybody. But IMF leveraged  the problem, by peddling rumours that are capable of destabilising and creating unnecessary tension in the economy and body polity.”

    He said the planned rehabilitation of the refineries by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by 2025 and the intention to meet the local demands for fuel would help in growing the sub-sector and economic activities.

    According to him, the country has the fuel that is enough to meet the needs of the country’s over 170 million population and also export petroleum products to other countries, urging stakeholders to set up refineries.

    “State governments in the Niger Delta region should try and invest in refineries especially the modular refineries in order to ensure the country gets enough fuel for use. Such refineries can produce fuel of between 10,000 to 50,000 litres, depending on their capacity.This would go a long way in boosting supply of fuel. When they invest in refineries, the country would be able to meet the domestic, commercial and industrial demands for fuel,” he added.

    On workers, he said, the International Oil Companies (IOCs) violate the rights of contract workers’ in their employment. He said the gross violation of workers right reached an unfortunate head when Shell contractors brazenly refused to implement an agreement they willingly entered into with the workers since November 2018,he said.

    He expressed regret over the refusal of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) and its contractors to recognise the union.

    Nigeria is expecting Dangote Petrochemical and Refinery to come on stream soon. The refinery has the capacity to produce 650,000barrels per day, a development, which stakeholders, including the Federal Government is harping  on to end the importation of fuel into the country. Also, Integrated Oil Service and other private firms have been approved by the government to set up refineries.

  • NGO to content board: limit spending on indigenous firms to 80%

    Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board(NCDMB) has been advised to limit its expenditure on indigenous firms, infrastructure development, capacity building and research and development to 80 per cent.

    A non-profit organisation, The Borderless, which gave the advice, said the balance  could be spent on investments and in other areas unrelated to local content development.

    According to a report by The Borderless, a not-for-profit organisation that monitors local content compliance and implementation in the country, the NCDMB is urged to also improve on its regulatory duty of effectivemonitoring and enforcing compliance by operators, both foreign andindigenous companies.

    According to the report, “NCDMB should be more above to its regulatoryduty of effectively monitoring and enforcing compliance by operators.The NOGIC Act should be amended to set a limit on amount of theNigerian Content Fund (NCF) spent by the Board on its operations.

    “There must be express stipulation that at least 80 per cent of theNCF is to be expended on Nigerian indigenous companies, infrastructuredevelopment, capacity building and research and development.

    “There must be express provision setting out the definition of aNigerian Indigenous Company and there must be a review of timeline onministerial waivers to reflect realities.”

    The Borderless also called for greater capacity building of the organised civil society on local content issues for greater public awareness and a more robust oversight regime by National Assembly to ensure better monitoring by NCDMB.

    “Greater synergy between National Assembly and the organised civil society for more robust oversight regime, amendment of the NOGIC Actand increased public awareness,” it stated.

  • Crazy bills, crime against electricity consumers – Lagos Lawyers

    Worried by the monthly influx of inflated electricity tariff, otherwise described as “Crazy Bills”, some Lagos-based lawyers on Friday urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to map out pricing guidelines for the benefit of energy consumers.

    They lawyers who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) described as “outrageous” the monthly bills sent by Electricity Distribution Companies, and classified same as a crime against the Nigerian public.

    They called for the adoption of an urgent measure to serve as a control on the pricing system in electricity distribution.

    Mrs. Vivian Ekwegh, from the law firm of Chief Benson Ndakara and Co, said “Crazy Bills” was exploitative and a crime against the Nigerian masses.

    Exemplifying herself as a victim of excessive billing, she said: “Estimated billing is a crime against the Nigerian masses because this is just one out of many ways in which the masses are being exploited.

    “I am a victim of estimated billing, and in spite of erratic power supply, each month I am sent a “crazy bill” to pay up or risk disconnection,” she said

    Ekwegh said that efforts to go through several channels to redress the situation and obtain a prepaid meter had failed severally, as the bills kept coming in monthly.

    “In spite of going through the appropriate channels to get a prepaid meter which, in my opinion, is a proper pricing system to determine how much I really owe; it has proved abortive.

    “This raises my suspicion that indeed, estimated billing may be intentional; it is a racketeering against the Nigerian public,” she said, and called for proactive measures on the way forward.

    “The solution is for the NERC to live up to its responsibility of protecting the Nigerian consumers by ensuring that every household is issued a prepaid meter.

    “If this is done, it will foster a proper pricing system and better estimation of how much electricity consumers utilise,” Ekwegh said.

    A Constitutional lawyer, Mr Spurgeon Ataene, Managing Partner at Spurgeon Ataene and Co, puts his opinion in the following words:

    “Crazy, outrageous, excessive and nonchalant estimated billing has become a menace to the citizens of this country.

    “I live within the Yaba area of Lagos and for the past four years, I receive electricity bills between N15,000 and N25,000 monthly, with insistence that I must pay up before re-connection.

    “I have been paying under duress for some years now, and I have written several petitions, yet nothing has been done.

    “This has further emboldened them to target my apartment for disconnection every month just to humiliate me for daring to petition and demand for prepaid meter.

    “I live in a residential apartment with no industrial equipment like a factory,” Ataene said, calling for urgent redress of the billing system.

    “The truth is that urgent intervention is needed to curtail these excesses; imagine how they sometimes disconnect the light, leaving naked wires on the ground and endangering the lives of citizens in some instances.

    “The NERC must now embark on aggressive enlightenment exercises aimed at correcting the flaws, delete illegal accumulation of bills and ensure that every house without a prepaid meter gets checked to know their actual power consumption,” he said.

    He said that the billing system should be made dependent on the availability of power for the period under review.

    He noted that another panacea to curbing massive estimated billings is to commission a compulsory provision of prepaid meters nationwide, and which will be at no cost to consumers.

    “Revenue through this means will be directly sent to government instead of allowing some few people to sabotage the economy.

    “Those employed into sensitive places like Electricity Companies should be made to realise the enormity of their tasks, and sign undertakings that where they oppress citizens or sabotage the economy, they will be investigated and prosecuted with a consequent sack if found guilty.

    “Finally, the electricity authorities can publish phone numbers of officials to reach for complaints, so that illegal bills received, can be sent to their WhatsApp and specifying the nature of apartment, household equipment and location.

    “If these steps are taken, I am confident there will be an instant check; no one should be allowed to toy with the live wire of the economy,” he said

    In the same vein, another Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Emenike Nnoromlele of Divine Solicitors, urged regulatory authorities to come out with a billing system which will itemise how much each point will consume in a specified duration.

    He said that this was to void the orchestration of mischief, adding that the same will also prevent an abuse of the exercise.

  • NNPC unfolds plan to bridge 20ml PMS gap

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Thursday disclosed how it planned to bridge the 20million liter shortfall in the nation’s Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) refining capacity. 

    The Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru unfolded the plan in his presentation titled “The Roadmap for Energy Sustainability in Nigeria,” in the Society of Petroleum Engineers Oloibiri Lecture Series and Energy Forum 2019 at Abuja.

    The theme of the forum was “Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Way Forward.”

    He earlier noted that despite abundant oil and gas reserves, Nigeria experiences shortages in electric power. 

    According to him, based on Nigeria’s Energy consumption current and forecast, statistics showed an increase from 6GW in 2015 to 30GW by 2025 and the primary source of the current power supply is hydro and gas.  

    Baru insisted that the future consumption which is expected to drive growth by 2025 would need aggressive development of gas and renewables projects to meet the exponential demand.

    On the refining capacity, the NNPC boss said that “Nigeria needs a refining capacity of 1.52million Barrel Per Stream Day (BPSD) of crude oil in order to meet its PMS requirement by 2025. 

    “This capacity requirement includes Dangote’s 650,000 BPSD Refinery  and NNPC’s current nameplate capacity of 445,000 BPSD (WRPC, KRPC and PHRC). This leaves a shortfall of 20million liters which is equivalent to 427,000BPSD.”

    The Group Managing Director however explained that in order to address this shortfall in PMS demand,  NNPC is adding 215,000 BPSD of refining capacity through private sector driven co-location of our existing facilities in Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC-100,000 (BSPD) and Warri Refining  and Petrochemicals  Company (WRPC-115,000 BPSD) respectively.

    Continuing, Baru said that “Additionally, NNPC through  its new initiative of establishing Condensate Refineries with private sector participation is providing clusters for in-country refining capacity totaling about 250,000BSPD which closes the PMS supply-demand gap and creates positive margins to the investors. 

    These improved in-country refining capacity plan ensures Nigeria’s domestic crude oil plan ensures Nigeria’s domestic crude oil utilization of up to 66% with its attendant local.”

    Nigeria, said Baru, is the largest economy in Africa and dominant in the West African sub-region, with an increasing energy demand. 

    He added that based on available forecast, Nigeria’s real GDP was US$320 billion as at 2015 with a growth potential of US$476 Billion by 2025 (averaging 4% per annum).

    Baru said that Nigeria’s petroleum product demand is expected to grow from 13.2 million metric tonnes in 2015, 15.1 million metric tonnes in 2020 and 17.3 million metric tonnes by 2025 while the population growth corresponding to this demand is 182 million in 2015, 207 million in 2020 and 234 million in 2025 respectively. 

    The average population growth rate is 3% per annum, he said. 

    The GMD recalled that evolving new funding mechanisms for the Joint Venture operations was part of the focus of the reforms undertaken by Government to eliminate the often difficult cash call regime, enhance efficiency of the management of oil and gas resources and guarantee growth.

    He said that in order to encourage the existing players in the Industry, particularly “our traditional JV partners, we undertook to settle all outstanding cash call arrears amounting to a negotiated sum of a little over $5billion. 

    This has restored confidence in the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry. We have signed third party financing deals with several international and local banks on new oil and gas developments worth over $3billion despite the depression in 2016/201 7. This demonstrates the faith in our Industry and the potentials we can unlock.

    “For our IOC partners, we would continue to leverage the strong credit rating of partners, identify key quick-win projects that are easy to mature with strong cash flow projections and attract the necessary funding from the capital market.

    “These alternative financing approaches to fund NNPC’s JV obligations have helped to renew investors’ confidence and stimulate further Foreign Direct Investments. In particular, this has deepened local banks participation in financing the Upstream Sector as the financing are syndicated from local banks and International lenders.

    In his presentation titled “Nigeria’s Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Way Forward,” the Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Co (SNEPCo), Mr. Bayo Ojulari, said $40billion to $200billion is what it will cost to address energy gap.

    He said that a nation without a secured energy system cannot have power. 

    He expressed concern that 70% of Nigeria installed capacity is lost before it reaches the customers. 

    According to him because of aging equipment and vandalism, 70% of the populace has less than four hours electricity per day. 

    He said that “energy is not standing alone; it is about its impact on the society.”

    In the next 10 years, said Ojulari, energy demand is expected to double. 

    He said that by 2050 solar could emerge as the dominant power energy source but oil and gas need would continue.

  • Content Board to OGTAN: implement standardised approach to capacity development

    The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has identified approaches the Oil and Gas Trainers Association (OGTAN) should adopt to make training in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry meet globally acceptable industry standards.

    NCDMB Executive Secretary, Simbi Wabote, in his presentation on “Human capital development as a driver for national transformation”, theme of OGTAN’s 2nd annual international conference  and exhibition, which held in Lagos, noted that the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act supports local capacity development.

    According to him, the NOGICD Act provisions on human capital development are contained in Sections 10 (1)b, 28, 29, and 40, which stipulate that Nigerians shall be given first consideration for training and employment in any project executed by any operator or project promoter in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. He, however, noted that OGTAN as the nation’s premier training organisation, must ensure the implementation of a structured and standardised approach to human capacity development in the oil and gas industry.

    He said: “To operate as a Training Business Group, OGTAN must interface with key stakeholders, including local and international organisations, academia, and government agencies, as well as promote opportunities for on-the-job training through collaborative efforts with operating and service companies in Nigeria.”

    To him, for OGTAN to excel, it must adopt the seven Cs policy – categorisation, certification, compliance, collaboration, competency, curriculum and cost.  Wabote said: “Use the next one year to complete the categorisation of the training facilities on offer by OGTAN members.  At least, ensure 50 per cent increase in recognisable certification of your course offerings within the next two years and demonstrate full compliance with the NOGICD Act and any other laws of the land.

    “On collaboration, share facilities, resources, and ideas among yourselves as well as with external parties. Collaborate with the industry to secure and utilise subject matter experts to augment your training resource and ensure competence, OGTAN should take it upon itself to organise refresher and ‘Train the Trainer’ courses for its members.

    “Curriculum launch of the OGTAN training compendium at the next conference with a listing of all the courses on offer with their certifications will be very important, while such training must offer value for money. Deploy technology as necessary to drive down your cost.

    “Note that it is recognised that the government has implemented several initiatives to address our educational challenges, but the private sector has a big role to play in the delivery of quality education and training. There is opportunity to leverage the huge appetite for education and training to reprioritise focus areas and redistribute responsibilities. Human capacity development is the route via which we transform human liabilities into human capita.”

    He said Warren Buffet recognises what 50 per cent of human capacity has achieved for America and imagine what 100 per cent can achieve, same principle is applicable to Nigeria.

    OGTAN President, Dr. Mayowa Afe, said: “On our part and for the purpose of improved training service deliveries and value to our members, OGTAN is currently embarking on categorisation of our members in conjunction with all stakeholders. Issuance of guidelines for standardisation of training/establishment of National Occupational Standard (NOS) in conjunction with NCDMB and other stakeholders, and fostering collaboration between regulatory bodies, academia and the oil & gas industry, to help close the gap between university education and the practical requirements of the oil and gas industry.”

    Afe said OGTAN’s challenges include the perceived notion that anything local or Nigerian is not good enough coupled with Nigerians’ attitude for foreign training for reasons of personal gains in preference to patronage and development of local capacities and capabilities. Funding has also impeded the tooling, training and development of world class trainers in country. We need special funding interventions. OGTAN wants a seat on the governing council of relevant government institutions such as PTDF, NCDMB, NBTE, NUC, among others.

  • ‘Nigeria’s plans to sell crude at discounted price in order’

    Nigeria’s decision to sell crude oil at discounted rates is not uncommon in the global oil market, an Energy Economics professor, Wunmi Iledare, has said.

    The measure which is intended to lure more buyers, Prof. Iledare said, was in order as it would help restore buyers from countries that  have already stopped buying Nigerian crude.

    He told The Nation that Nigeria is lucky that the price at which its crude oil is being offered for sale is not too low as to create panic in the market.

    He said: “Luckily, the margin between the discounted price, which Nigeria is selling its crude oil is above $60 per barrel, a price which to me is still relatively good. Therefore, there is no need to complain about the issue of discounting the price of crude oil at the international market by Nigeria, since nobody is ready to produce at a loss. It is important to know that the issue of discounting the price of crude by producer(s) of the product is not uncommon.

    Iledare, who is also Director of Energy Information at the Centre for Energy Studies, said Nigeria may need to sell its crude at West Texas Intermediate (WTI) price to be able to compete well in the United States WTI,  also known as Texas light sweet, a grade of crude oil used as benchmark in oil pricing.

    According to him, Nigeria needs to sell its crude at WTI price, if it is still relying on sales of crude for survival of the economy. He urged the Federal Government to concentrate on selling of locally refined petroleum products for growth.

    “But the preferred approach for prosperity for Nigeria is to sell downstream products that are locally refined. Based on this development, lower prices are becoming better for Nigerian economy than higher prices,” Iledare said.

  • UNDP, Sahara Group promote sustainable energy, SDGs

    Sahara Group and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are collaborating to promote reliable access to affordable and sustainable energy, and mainstream the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the private sector with a specific focus on SDG 7 (affordable energy).

    The partnership, according to Sahara Group’s spokesman, Bethel Obioma, was formalised in New York during the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by UNDP’s Regional Director for Africa, Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa and the Sahara Group Executive Director Mr. Temitope Shonubi. In attendance were UNDP Administrator, Achim Steiner and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative  Ambassador Tijani Muhammad-Bandé.

    “650 million people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity.  UNDP looks forward to partnering with Sahara Group to ensure that everyone in this region has access to affordable energy, a critical part of our work supporting countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.” said UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.

    “At Sahara Group, we believe that access to energy is critical to accelerating sustainable development, especially in developing economies. As a leading energy provider in Africa, we are passionate about the partnership with the UNDP and are confident that it would inspire more interventions and ultimately facilitate access to reliable, clean and affordable energy for all Africans,” Shonubi explained.

    Africa’s energy demands are poised to rise with rapid urbanisation and economic growth.  The 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG 7, call for universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services, including clean fuels and technologies.

    As regards the agreement, UNDP and the Sahara Group will work to identify best avenues to build on their respective network and experience to create power solutions that will help drive sustainable development and provide support for SDG nationwide monitoring and reporting.

    The Sahara Group was appointed as one of the two African companies on the Private Sector Advisory Group set up by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals fund (UN-SDGF) in 2016. It has since played a significant role in driving that mandate by creating the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG), inaugurated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. It comprises over thirty leading businesses and corporate foundations in Nigeria.

  • LPG usage: CGSPAN praises Kachikwu on planned legislation

    The Cooking Gas Skid Proprietors Association of Nigeria (CGSPAN) has lauded the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu’s plan  to put legislation in place to compel petroleum product marketers to set up gas filling plants in all the petrol stations across the country.

    According to CGSPAN spokesman, Otunba Shittu Moshood,  Kachikwu gave the directive while inuagurating Nigerian Army Welfare Limited by Guarantee, NAWLG/Gasland Nigeria Limited, Liquefied Petroleum Gas plant in Mambila Barracks, Abuja, and the launch of LPG Micro Distribution Centres in the Nigeria Army barracks and cantonments.

    The Minister explained further that the legislation is to be put together by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) as part of efforts to deepen LPG usage across the country.

    Chairman of CGSPAN, Alhaji Adebisi Bada, in his address to members in Abeokuta, Ogun State, said having LPG skid plants in filling station is safe and appropriate.

    “Skid operations in filling station to the best of my knowledge are very safe contrary to some naive opinion from some quarters. In as much as appropriate safety measures, which the Association is championing, are put in place by the operators, the attendant risks involved would have been curtailed,” he said.

    Bada emphasised that skid operations was capable of providing thousands of jobs for the youths while boosting the availability of LPG to end-users across the country. He  added that having LPG skid plant either as a standalone or add-on will help boost the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and bridge the gap between cooking gas users and distributors.

    The CGSPAN Chairman, however, called on the Minister and DPR to speed up the legislation process so that Nigerians can begin to reap from its abundant gas resources.

  • Benin DisCo connects Omozogie-Uteh community to grid

    RESidents of Omozogie in Uteh Community, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State last week were connected to the national grid by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc (BEDC) after years of no electricity supply. A substation was eventually inuagurated to link the community to the grid.

    The inuaguration, which started with a town hall meeting organised by the community, had in attendance BEDC management team led by its Head, Community Relations Officer, Mrs Virginia Osineme, Business Manager of Ikpoba Hill, Mrs. Ekaete Ntukidem and her Business Head Distribution, Mamah an engineer, Odionwere electricity committee members and residents of Uteh Omozogie community.

    The town hall meeting was meant to brief the residents on the need to see the substation as a collective responsibility, which should be protected against vandalism and other forms of energy theft.

    Addressing the meeting, Mrs Osineme said: “The protection of the substation is everybody’s business. If there is no light, you know who to meet and talk to. If you see anybody in the substation that is not authorised by BEDC and the electricity committee, he or she is a vandal and should be apprehended.”

    Osineme used the opportunity to educate the people of the community on basic safety tips and the need for proper earthing of their premises, the importance of engaging licensed electricians to wire their houses and the need to avoid substandard electrical accessories. She pleaded with the community leaders to work with BEDC to educate their children, youths and wives on the importance of electricity safety and help disseminate the safety tips.

    Mrs Ntukidem commended the community for its patience throughout the process of connecting them to the national grid. According to her, meters have been properly installed and functional to provide the customers with fair and transparent billing. “Please, ensure no new wire is connected illegally to the network, we will know because of the check meter attached to the transformer, vend as at when due and don’t allow electricians to tamper with the transformer,” she said.

    The General, Okae-Don, Uteh, Mr Iyoha Omozogie, lauded BEDC for keeping fate with the community saying “we thank the management and staff of BEDC for how they have been able to direct us in ensuring Omozogie community is connected to the national grid”.

    We also thank the members of the community for their selfless donations and doggedness in ensuring the yearnings of the people become a reality. We now have light in Omozogie.” According to Iyoha, the community has also set up an electricity committee  that will be working with BEDC in ensuring meters were not bypassed in order to mitigate energy losses, quick response to faults and protection of the newly installed substation.