Aso Villa Reads for Mon. Feb 14, 2022
Every day, we bring you the best stories the Media is reporting about the Government of Nigeria
The cost of transporting containers from Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports, the two main seaports in Nigeria’s commercial capital, has improved in the last year after the introduction of the electronic call-up system, and businesses are the better for it. The E call-up system, targeted at managing truck traffic into the Apapa Port, has not only helped to reduce congestion within the port city but has also improved travel time for port users, motorists and residents. [Business Day]
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has commenced comprehensive digitisation of old transmission substations in its network nationwide to ensure seamless transmission stability and monitoring of grid lines. Further, the digitisation project is aimed at improving the automation system of old transmission substations and their connectivity with the proposed TCN SCADA System. [Leadership]
The Federal Government has created 750,000 jobs for youths to close the unemployment gap in the country. The Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dasuki Arabi made this known at the News Agency of Nigeria forum, on Sunday in Abuja. Arabi, who is also the Chairman, Technical Working Committee on Youth Employment, said the intervention followed an interface with the Nigeria Economic Summit Group. [Punch]
The Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private sector task force launched on March 26, 2020 to support the government’s fight against the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, has pooled N100 billion to bolster the fight against terrorism and other civil disturbances. This is coming on the heels of the announcement by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, that credit to agriculture will see a 10 per cent increase in weeks ahead, as a strategic move to tackle food insecurity; while sustaining all existing intervention programmes. [Sun News]
The federal government is ramping up the disbursement of the N140 billion solar intervention fund, a facility by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to close the huge energy gap, especially in Nigeria’s rural communities. In the last quarter of 2020, the CBN had introduced the fund that would offer obligors access to a credit facility that would not exceed a maximum of N500 million, with the aim of providing affordable mini-grid solutions to rural dwellers. [This Day]
The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) says plans are underway to train 500,000 public servants on digitisation and Information Technology (IT) to improve service delivery. Mr Dasuki Arabi, the Director-General of the bureau disclosed this when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja on Sunday. Arabi said that the bureau was working with the U.S. government and other key private sector agencies to ensure the training of public servants on digitisation and use of IT among others. [Punch]
The Federal Government at the weekend announced its support for the production of local fabrics, popularly known as ‘Adire’ in Ogun State. The support, which came through the Office of the Vice President on Shared Facility, will further boost efforts by the Ogun State government to develop the Adire local fabric and make it a global brand. [Vanguard]
The federal government through the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, yesterday announced that it had taken delivery of 15 brand new power transformers through the Apapa Port, Lagos. The transformers, it stated, comprise 10 60MVA 132/33kV and five 150MVA 330/132kV-capacity facilities and were delivered to TCN Central Store in Ojo, Lagos State, for onward delivery to various TCN project sites nationwide. The contract for the supply of the transformers under the Nigerian Electricity Transmission Project (NETAP) was funded by the World Bank. [This Day]
