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Nigeria bets on solar for Covid recovery and reliable power supply

Nigeria bets on solar for Covid recovery and reliable power supply 08 April 2021 - 10:55 Tope Alake The Solar Power Naija project is a step towards solving one of Nigeria’s biggest problems: a lack of reliable electricity. Picture: 123RF/NATALIA BOIKO Lagos Suleiman Babamanu’s path to the heart of Nigeria’s biggest solar power programme started in disappointment. After university he worked as a trainee geoscientist for a unit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. A job in the industry Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer would have been a traditional route, and a lucrative one. But he couldn’t find employment.

Curbing Youth Restiveness, Oil Theft, Unemployment in Niger Delta

To curb youth restiveness, oil theft and even unemployment while achieving fuel sufficiency, Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that the Ministry of Petroleum Resources has intensified the drive to encourage modular refineries In some Niger Delta communities, illegal refineries are gold mines. During a recent operation where THISDAY was embedded with naval forces in the Niger Delta, these illegal refineries have pipes running through the backyards of some houses close to the jetties from where they load these products into waiting boats. There were underground pipes connecting crude oil reservoirs suspected to have been siphoned from wellheads along Trans-Forcados by the criminals, who run other pipes to various tanks and dugout pits, such that diesel, kerosene and the waste products go into different channels from their heat ovens through hoses and metal pipes.

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