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  • GCU old boys honour Kagho-Omomadia, Erivwo

    THE Old Boys Association of the Government College, Ughelli, Delta State has honoured the immediate past President of the home branch of the association, Dr. G. U Kagho-Omomadia and Very Reverend (Prof) S. U Erivwo with awards of Ancient Mariners.

    Inducting the recipients in Ughelli at the weekend, the President of the Home branch, Lord Mayor J. K. H. Tagar, said the ceremony was set aside for old boys of the college who have successfully clocked 55 years from the day of their entry into the school.

    Tagar, who congratulated the recipients for the awards, expressed optimism that the skills and knowledge they had gained would enhance their competence and enable them provide value added services to their alma mater.

    He added that their induction as Ancient Mariners had imposed on them the challenges of having to stand tall in integrity and uphold high ethical and moral standards. He urged the recipients to strive at all times to do their alma mater and humanity proud, maintaining that their present rank “is not limited to the College alone as the school has built in you exemplary and successful conduct in private sector and in other fields of endeavour.”

    “The knowledge acquired in Government College, Ughelli can be gainfully applied to excel in any sector in the world. In this respect, I am delighted to note that the two very accomplishes Ancient Mariners that have honoured our invitation today have been hugely successful in their chosen fields since leaving Government College, Ughelli.”

    Dr. Kagho-Omomadia and Prof Erivwo expressed gratitude to the association and enjoined the young members to contribute as much as they can to make the association grow to greater heights.

  • Transcorp Ughelli to create 15,000 jobs

    The  target of 1,000Megawatts (Mw) generation by the first quarter of next year by the  Transport Ugehlli Power Limited (TUPL) will culminate in the creation of 15,000 job opportunities, it was learnt yesterday.

    Its Communications Manager, Marketing & Corporate Communications, Bolanle Omisore, who spoke in Abuja, said as private owner of the power generation plant, there is a potential of increasing the workforce by 40 per cent.

    Omisore said: “At Ughelli, we are not only excited at the potential of increasing our workforce by over 35 – 40 per cent  (140 – 200 direct jobs),  we are more excited at the significant multiplier effect in the form of contract staff, local supply chain employees, trainers, government agencies, logistics , periodic maintemance and others.

    “These we believe will create 15,000 plus inter related employment opportunities. “We expect other industry leaders to follow suite hence numbers to even be higher.”

    Omisore said  TUPL had upon the take over of the entity, injected a team of highly technical team to run the plant.

    TUPL, said Omisore, had brought in four expatriate technical advisors and some GE trained e ngineers have contributed largely to the technical capability of the company.

    Omisore said: “The machines are now running per Original Equipment Manufacturers’(OEMs’) operational procedures. Tthis was not the case before hand over. “Regular maintenance and the appreciation of the need to sustain plant reliability has been a welcome culture among the plant team.

    “Also, maintenance tasks that used to be outsourced in the past are now being carried out by the plant maintenance team.  Overall, the culture transformation is best in class.”

    Asked whether the firm has trained its workforce upon assumption of operation of the plant, Omisore affirmed that thrainings are on-going.

    The firm has also placed the technical staff  on refresher courses for specified OEM- sponsored trainings and computer appreciation training for all staff are currently in the process.

    Omisore said: “We are also reviewing training gaps among the staff through the performance review programme for future training packages.

    “We also have our technical expatriates providing both on the job trainings and formal trainings.”

  • Transcorp Ughelli eyes 1,000Mw

    Transcorp Ughelli eyes 1,000Mw

    Transcorp Ughelli Power Limited (TUPL), a subsidiary of Heirs Holdings, will  generate 1,000Megawatts (Mw) of electricity by first quarter of next year, its chairman, Mr. Tony Elumelu  has said.

    He said the firm has raised the capacity of the power plant from 150Mw to 450Mw, adding that by next month, the firm would have recorded 700Mw.

    He said: “Our experience so far at Ughelli power plant is a testimony to the size of the opportunity. Our amazing team has taken that plant from 150Mw capacity when we took over in November 2013, to 450Mw today.  We expect it to increase 700Mw by October and to achieve 1000Mw by the second quarter of 2015.”

    Elumelu said the firm would be generating  20 per cent of the country’s total power by next year upon the achievement of 1,000Mw.

    He also said  the firm is developing a greenfield project that will expand the plant’s capacity by additional 1,000Mw in within the next three to five years .

    According to him, the firm has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with General Electric (GE) and Symbion Power to facilitate the project.

  • ‘Ughelli Power Plant can only boast of 300 MW’

    Only 300Megawatts out of 972 Megawatts of electricity at the Transcorp Ughelli Power Plant, Delta State is dependable, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Adeoye Fadeyibi, has said.

    He told The Nation that the company met 972 megawatts on ground, but discovered that there is only 300 megawatts capacity.

    He said the company has enough gas to run its plant, despite that the product poses a problem to the growth of the industry.

    “Though gas in an issue in the industry, it is not a general concern across all the power generation companies (GENCOs). What we have done in Ughelli Power Company is to look at the gas in place and see how far we can go. Based on our business model, we have enough gas to run 400 mega- watts. We have excellent personnel at the plant. I’m talking about existing resources in addition to support from international organisations. We are putting the right resources in place to foster the growth of the company,’’ he said.

    Fadeyibi said the company has a rehabilitation plan, adding that it is committed to the transformation of the sector. He said this is the time to invest in power because there is market for it.

    “We have to give the market a credit. We have a national bulk trader ( the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET). It is a party that sits between us and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). We have a suitable market in place to operate,’’ he added.

    Similarly, the Chairman, National Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Sam Amadi, said the coming of the 14 power generation and distribution companies would help in developing the sector. He said the firms would help in improving power supply and boosting socio-economic activities.