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Nigeria: 75 Questions for Senator Liyel Imoke
AllAfrica.com – Mar 24, 2008
6 billion!!Relevant LinksWest AfricaEconomy Business and FinanceCrime and CorruptionEnergyLegal and Judicial AffairsNigeriaiii. NIPP Generation Balance of Plant (Le. 93 billion (equivalent to USD179 million) as against international average cost of USD600000… Was the reference project a success in your opinion at the time the idea was borrowed?32. Has the subject reference project been successfully completed to date even to the limited scope of its initial conception by the Rivers State Government?34. Could the objective of attaining available generating capacity of 10000MW by December 2007 have been met if Government had limited its remit to enabling or incubating transitional electric market framework-structures such as:i. A strategic aggregator (or power pool to provide market assurance to private sector investors in generation plants as well as provide market mechanism) ii.
Nigeria: Power Probe – Contractor Faults FG
AllAfrica.com – Mar 24, 2008
Rockson Engineering said weekend that the four ongoing contracts being handled by it were still within the contractual time-frame. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Managing Director of the company Sir Arumeni-Johnson told reporters that of the amount expended by his company so far records showed that government was owing it N12 billion. "We even advanced government money to pay compensation to land owners at Alaoji and we have not been refunded" he said adding that payments by government for the power projects were based on achievement of specific milestones. He said the projects were being slowed down by administrative bottlenecks caused by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria the Ministry of Energy (Power) Niger Delta Power Holding Company the Central Bank and the Ministry of Transportation… Sir Arumeni-Johnson also said although government made 16 per cent of the moku Power station valued at $161 million available based on work done this was in breach of the contract because the contractual terms stipulated a 25 per cent payment. He said the company had not drawn on the money advanced. The gas and steam turbines for the Alaoji power station are similarly stacked at nne Ports due to government failing. Government is expected to upgrade the Imo River bridge before the equipment weighing over 260 tones can be transported to site and installed. Sir Arumeni-Johnson said demurrage was accumulating on imported equipment lying at nne Ports and that at the last count it was in excess of 600000 Euros. Also speaking Senator Aniete kon Chairman of the company said warranty on the equipment supplied by General Electric (GE) would run out in a few weeks and that the equipment had been lying at the ports since the last quarter of 2007.
NYC considers toll for Manhattan roads
USA Today – Mar 24, 2008
will honor slain Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato 29 who was fatally shot Jan. •Chi Mak 67 a former engineer convicted of conspiring to export U. defense technology to China faces sentencing in Santa Ana Calif. •Truck driver Vincente Zepeda faces sentencing in Woodstock Ill. for reckless homicide after crashing into a tour bus in 2003 killing eight women… plant explosion forces evacuations An explosion at a meat-packing plant in Booneville Ark. caused an ammonia gas leak that forced 180 people from their homes emergency officials said. There were no injuries at the Cargill Meat Solutions plant in the town of 4000 said Gina Kinney a dispatcher with the Logan County Sheriff’s Department. The fire involved an estimated 88000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia plus the plant had 100000 of non-flammable carbon dioxide which is used in refrigeration systems she said. Mark Klein a spokesman for the Minneapolis-based company said the plant was closed Sunday but about 20 contractors and a few other employees were at the site at the time of the fire. Klein said the plant which produces frozen ground beef patties and steaks employs about 800 people. Decision on Detroit mayor due today Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy is scheduled to reveal today the results of her investigation into whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide committed perjury or other crimes.
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