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By Maina Waruru Nairobi — When he retired from his publishing job in Nairobi six years ago, Joseph Ojuang moved to a house he had built in Siaya, western Kenya. The home was more than 30 kilometres (18 miles) away from the nearest electrical grid, so Ojuang’s only choice for power was to have a […]
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Ngozi Achebe, Lola Shoneyin, Chika Unigwe, Olusola Olugbesan and six others nominated for Literary Award
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Ngozi Achebe, Lola Shoneyin, Chika Unigwe, Olusola Olugbesan and six others nominated for Literary Award 10 September 2012 As far as Africa is concerned, prizes don’t come any bigger and challenging than this – the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) Literary prize for writers of Nigerian descent based both at home and abroad. Currently […]
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Last time I opened discussion on the topic of cutting a material that contained high levels of stress. This is a more common situation when working with rock, since – as a general rule of thumb – the vertical stress on a rock increases by 1 psi, for every foot deeper one goes into the […]
THE United States government, through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), has promised to provide 78 million US dollars to support the development of high impact investment projects in the energy sector, it was announced yesterday. The agreement was signed on Friday in Dar es Salaam between the Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Ms Saada […]
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Imperative of sustaining the Nigeria LNG project 26 September 2012 As you may be aware, I devoted almost two decades to the work of establishment of LNG business in Nigeria. And it nearly happened: the first time was in the 1960s and the second in the 1970s. Indeed, we would have signed an agreement […]
By Yemi Adebisi Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has blamed his successors, including President Goodluck Jonathan, for being responsible for the rot in the country’s power sector. Speaking at the first Green Legacy Moment with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Leadership and Human Security in Africa in Abeokuta, Ogun State, he said his administration laid the foundation […]
Blog By Jean R. Abinader The IEA lauds the country’s national energy policy It is only natural to think of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) when talking about global energy issues. Yet aside from informed estimates from national energy institutions and consulting groups, few countries have collaborated with the International Energy Agency (IEA) […]
By Jan Piotrowski New software could help the world go green efficiently – while minimising environmental damage. Called SWITCH, the tool was presented by a team from the US-based University of California, Berkeley, at the International Alliance of Research Universities’ Sustainability Science Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark on 23 October. The program determines the most efficient […]
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Safety glass, or toughened glass is typically designed so that, when it fails it will break into small pieces with few of the relatively sharp, and thus dangerous, fragments formed by ordinary glass. It is used in making shower doors, and automobile windows. As such is differs from laminated glass (which I will discuss in […]
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By Austin Ogwuda Enugu—Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, yesterday, in Enugu, said the commission had cracked oil subsidy fraud in which over N5 billion had been recovered and more than 40 suspects arrested. Lamorde, who disclosed this at a workshop on effective reporting of financial crimes organized […]
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI-ABUJA The Defence headquarters yesterday debunked online media publications that the family of the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh was evacuated by Airforce helicopter from his home town near Mubi. A statement from Defence Headquaters website reads, “Contrary to a misinformation that has gone viral on cyberspace, Chief of […]
November 6, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Coal stocks at electric power plants, which totaled 121 million tons at the end of August, are relatively low in both absolute and days of burn terms relative to recent historical norms. This is true both nationally and in the Upper Midwest. About two-thirds of coal used […]
editorial OIL has a central importance in our lives. Some have reasoned that without the easy revenue oil heaves into government coffers, the attractions of elective office would have dried up long ago. Oil runs government budgets, and with it the web of corruption often associated with oil. An erroneous belief that relevance of oil […]
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The Missouri University of Science & Technology Geothermal system was officially opened last Thursday, some months after the coal and wood fired power plant that had previously warmed the campus had been shut down. Figure 1. Chancellor Schrader cutting the ribbon to officially open the system. The operation ended up being a little larger than […]
