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‘Why V.I., Lekki, Ajah, others are in darkness’ by Our Reporter, March 17, 2016 at 12:00 am in

‘Why V.I., Lekki, Ajah, others are in darkness’ by Our Reporter, March 17, 2016 at 12:00 am in Energy

•EKEDC promotes spokesman, others
The trip in a line from the Egbin Power Station caused the power outage in some areas of its jurisdiction since Sunday, the Head, Corporate Communications, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC, Mr. Godwin Idemudia, has said.
He said the problem affected residents of Ajah, Lekki and Alagbon to get power.
Other areas affected by the outage include Lagos Island, Ikoyi, Victoria Island Lekki, Ajah, and Ibeju, Idemudia said, adding that efforts were being made by generation and transmission technical personnel to repair the fault.
Idemudia appealed to customers to bear with the company, and that supply to the affected areas would be restored soon.
The spokesperson of Transmission Company of Nigeria, Lagos Region Mrs. Celestina Osin, confirmed that the blackout was as a result of a detachment on the wire of the Egbin-Ajah 330KV Transmission Line3.
She said: “Our team of maintenance engineers is already at work to rectify the fault as quickly as possible, with the aim of getting customers back to the system. We therefore, apologise to all affected customers to bear with us for all the inconveniences caused by the blackout. We assure customers of a speedy restoration of power.”
Meanwhile, Eko Electricity Distribution Company has promoted some top staff members.
According to a statement, Idemudia was promoted from Assistant General Manager (Corporate Communications) to General Manager.
Principal Managers Uzoh Obialeri, Femi Adewumi and Iyabo Iledare, have moved up as Assistant General Managers.
The District Manager, Islands District, Oluwafemi Olaoye and Uthman Saheed Abiodun of Finance and Accounts Department are now Principal Managers, while Ovie Adjekpiyede of Projects Department and Iheoma Chukwuka of Legal Department were promoted Senior Managers.
The company said the exercise was continuous and a demonstration of the company’s unwavering desire to position itself as a worker-friendly organization.

Students protest against killing of colleague in Jos

March 17, 2016

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Jude Owuamanam
Students of the University of Jos and some youths on Wednesday took to the streets to protest against the shooting of a student by suspected security personnel in Jos on Tuesday.
The 300-Level student of Computer Science, Hezekiah Paul, died at the Plateau Specialist Hospital from the gunshot wounds.
The students were said to have taken their protest to the office of the Directorate of State Services, near Police A Division, where they registered their grievance.

Hezekiah was said to be on a three-month Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme with a phone shop, Johnson Sky Phones and Company, located at No. 11, Ahmadu Bello Way, Jos.
The Speaker, Plateau State House of Assembly, Peter Azi, who received the students, told them that he would make sure that justice was done.
Azi said he was aware of the incident and had visited the victim in the hospital before he died.
“This morning, I was with the Commissioner of Police to seek an explanation and I was told that the suspect had been arrested”, he said.
He commended the protesters for their orderly conduct.
But the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Emmanuel Abuh, confirmed the incident, and described it as unfortunate.

Nigeria: Female bombers kill 24

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MAIDUGURI Two female suicide bombers killed at least 24 worshippers and wounded 23 in an attack during dawn prayers on Wednesday on a mosque on the outskirts of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, officials said from the birthplace of Boko Haram.

One bomber blew up inside the mosque and the second waited outside to detonate as survivors tried to escape.

The toll rose when rescuers digging through rubble discovered five more injured people and recovered four more bodies, including the bombers, according to an emergency official.

Several suicide bombers have exploded in recent months at roadblocks leading into the city, indicating success in preventing attackers from reaching crowded areas. AP

Ekiti school where students are forced to work on teachers’ farms during school hours

Posted By: ABIODUN NEJOon: March 17, 2016In: EducationNo Comments

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For most teachers in Elo High School, Ayetoro-Ekiti in the Ido/Osi Council area of Ekiti State, life is so sweet with bountiful harvest in their private farms every year at no cost. The teachers capitalised on their position to engage their students in free labour at their private farms handling every aspect of farming for them beginning from cultivation of land to planting, weeding, harvesting and even selling. And this, the teachers do during school hours taking the pupils to their private farms at least twice a week to work for a minimum of 30 minutes. But the bubbles burst recently when some aggrieved parents, who have tolerated the abuse over the years, lodged a protest against the school. Now, the state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has waded in with a promise to bring to justice any teacher involved in the scam. To start with, the governor instructed his deputy, Dr Kolapo Olusola and Commissioner for Education, Mr. Jide Egunjobi, to carry out a preliminary investigation into the complaint.
This was to open the can of worms at the institution as the investigating team caught the teachers red-handed as they met the students working in their private farms during school hours. A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) posted to the school, Miss Giredana Enogha, said when she got to the school in June last year, the situation was like a farm settlement. The corps member said: “We resumed in June and we (corpers) wondered why the school was like that, we were surprised at why students go to farm almost every day. “It was more of a farming place, even when we are teaching, they do come to call some students for use in the farm, when you tell them what you are teaching is important and all that, they will still insist that the students go to the farm. “During examinations, the students will have to first go to farm before they come and sit for their papers. That was the situation till the arrival of this new principal in January 2016,” the NYSC member said. According to her, students are not encouraged to do any other thing than to go to farm all day. The students also related their experiences in the hands of the teachers, saying each of them worked in the teachers’ private farms for not less than an hour every week. A Junior Secondary School (JSS) 3 student said though the school had a farm where students were expected to work once a week, some teachers capitalised on that to take them to their private farms to weed and make heaps.
Another JSS 3 student, a 13-year-old, narrated how farming activities had taken over academics in their school, saying: “The teachers usually tell us to drop our bags as soon as we get to school in the morning, to come and help them on their farmlands and when we get there, it may take up to 30 minutes to do the work, and after doing it, another teacher can call us to come and help them do another work and we can’t say no because if you say no, you will be punished. “Like yesterday (Monday) when the commissioner came to the school, I have worked thrice at different places, we were told to make heaps, like 70 heaps per person all over the school and then, I later went to Mrs. Onibon’s farm to weed, then to Mr. Awopetu’s farm to make heaps and I can’t ignore their request,” the student who doesn’t want his name in print, said. A JSS 2 student, who also spoke to journalists, corroborated the narrations of the JSS 3 students. An angry governor, on receipt of the preliminary report of the deputy governor’s team, suspended no fewer than 16 of the affected teachers pending the outcome of full investigations of the matter. The governor ordered that the probe should be extended to teachers who had taught in the school since 2012 and that a former principal of the school who was transferred to a secondary school at Ilasa Ekiti about three months ago should be probed as well over the matter. Fayose, who warned that indicted teachers would definitely face the music, also ordered that at least 80 per cent of the teachers be transferred from that school. “This is sheer slavery,” he said, “The teachers mentioned must be suspended immediately. The principal, who just got there two months ago, is exempted, but the former principal, who has been posted out must be investigated as well. “And any of them found culpable will have him or herself to blame . They will not go unpunished because this is slavery. Students cannot be taking to private farms under the guise of doing agricultural practical,” he said. He also cautioned that anyone who tries to harass or intimidate the students would face criminal prosecution for such action and directed that the students be adequately protected by relevant authorities.

Ambode splashes N2.5m on debate winners

Posted By: TUNBOSUN OGUNDAREon: March 17, 2016In: EducationNo Comments

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has added a sum of N2.5 million to the cash prizes of winners of the 2016 Lagos State Schools’ Debate Season VII. This was made known by the Deputy Governor, Dr. Idiat Adebule who made the presentation at the finals of the competition last Thursday. With this development, Badagry Senior Grammar School which came top at the end of the competition went home with a cash prize of N1.5m while the runnerup, Ogudu Senior High School received N1.1m and Lagos Progressive Senior Secondary School, Surulere as well as CMS Girls Grammar School which came third and fourth got N750,000 and N500,000, respectively. Speaking on the occasion, Adebule said the state government was committed to ensuring the continual success of the competition as it promotes youth development, hard work as the only way to success and encourages healthy competition among students. She urged schools that couldn’t present candidates this year to brace up by working harder and compete in subsequent editions and win laurels.
She commended the parents and appreciated the teachers for grooming the students for the competition, the result of which has manifested in the proficiency in which the students articulate their thoughts on broad issues covering academics, political, economic, social and moral development in the nation. Earlier in her address of welcome, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Olabisi Ariyo stated that the annual debate which is an integral part of the state Annual School Calendar in the area of Cocurricular activities is opened to all public and private senior secondary schools in the state. The competition, she noted, was geared towards improving academic research, students’ intellectual capabilities and communication skills as well as instills in them the confidence to speak intelligently anywhere and at any time. She urged all participants and their parents and teachers as well as colleagues to exhibit the spirit of sportsmanship at all times.

Parameters for world universities ranking unfair to Nigeria —EKSU VC

Posted By: SAIDAT ALAUSAon: March 17, 2016In: EducationNo Comments

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Sir, what were your plans for EKSU when you assumed office as a new Vice-Chancellor of the university?
When I assumed office, I presented a nine-point vision which articulated my focus for radical restructure and remodeling of the university and I started with the area of infrastructure. Looking around, we’ll see that infrastructure is growing. Our vision is to sustain such growth and to even develop upon the achievement of the past Vice-Chancellor. I also spoke about intellectualism. That is, I will want our students to be equipped adequately in order to compete favourably with other students all over the world. I also envisage staff that will be globally competitive and in achieving these, I profound that, there should be exchange of programmes as staff and student going abroad could also bring people from abroad. We are also thinking of internationalisation that is we cannot talk of a University without being universal. Academic programme makes a university and therefore, we are fashioning out a situation where we are going to make our system conform to international standard and practices. Aside from that, I talked of informatics that is our system will be radically developed to come up to real ICT platform. When I came on board, we were predominantly manually driven and I felt that a 21st Century university should not be manually driven. So, I had that vision that, we will develop our portal, Website and our Network system in the university using optic fiber. I also said that, we need to employ modern day ICT specialists and I’m happy to inform you that, only last week, we interviewed some programmers and we are thinking of employing three of them. I talked about Internally Generated Revenue a cardinal point among my vision statements because a university in this present age cannot rely on government in terms of capital or recurrent spending. So, I have the vision to actually work seriously in the area of IGR so that we can turn our
Many universities in the country have had their share of crises, what measures have you put in place to prevent crisis in EKSU?
I said it the other time that we are for peace in our university. What I can say now is that, nobody fights what is right. Most of the crises we have in our universities precipitate on the fact that, there are doubts on executives. If an executive attains a position and the union doubts his or her integrity, students cannot vouch for anything he or she says then there will be crisis in that particular university. I therefore believe that, the antidote to crisis by universities should be transparency. The management should be transparent. When there is money, say there is money and when there is no money, say there is no money.
Sir, for the first time, education sector is having the highest budget allocation this year, what does this mean to you?
Money answers all things. When there is money in the Educational sector, I want to believe if such resources are not mishandled, we’ll be able to touch every sector of our Education enterprise. There will be no complaint about payment of staff, purchase of equipments, good buildings will be in the institutions, teaching and learning facilities will be available and lots more.
In your opinion, do you think the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board is still relevant for admission into tertiary institutions?
If you look at how Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) started and where they are today, you will commend the body particularly Prof. Dibu Ojerinde who is the Registrar of that particular establishment. When he started, people complained about cheating and they quickly came into it and started electronic testing and that electronic testing is an advanced e-testing not just ordinary. They use random items and candidates will be sitting side-by-side doing different things. As at now, when students write the exams within some hours, their results can be out and the idea of cheating completely minimize if not eradicated and even the organization has made it to the extent that there are no crisis in examination centres anymore. So, I score JAMB very high on this.
Despite NUC’s efforts in improving standard in Nigerian universities, our universities are still poorly ranked. What do you think is the problem?
In this area of ranking, I am going to speak in a different way today because the ranking to me is only predominantly one of the indices of colonization and this thing goes with what I’m saying that we don’t rank things that do not fall on the same scale. It is like ranking measurement using metre with ranking using grams. How can we be ranking universities in Nigeria with universities in the United States? Let’s use our parameter here whether they will not fail ranking in United States too. So, the point is that, it’s still an object of colonisation. What are the parameters they use in ranking? They’ll say if you are not using internet enough, you will not be ranked among good universities. So, ranking itself should be well defined. I believe that there should be national ranking. Nigeria should have their own ranking system; West Africa should have their own ranking system to the extent that we can say this is the best university in Nigeria. Ranking should take note of peculiar environmental situations. We are not as technologically developed as the other countries. There is what we call digital device. Because of digital device, they are more privileged than us here. Therefore the ranking is biased. So, they should be a way of normalizing it.

‘Badeh diverted N558m monthly as COAS’

Posted By: Eric Ikhilae and Somina Amachree, Abujaon: March 17, 2016In: NewsNo Comments

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The prosecution in the case involving former Chief of Air Staff (COAS), Alex Badeh opened its case yesterday with a witness, who gave details of how he aided Badeh to divert N558.2 million monthly from the Nigerian Air Force’s Personnel and Emolument Vote Account with the United Bank for Africa (UBA).

The witness, Air Commodore Aliyu Yishau (rtd), who said he served as former Director of Finance and Account of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), while Badeh was CAS, said the diversion lasted between September 2012 and December 2013.

Yishau mounted the witness box after Justice Okon Abang agreed to hear Badeh’s fresh motion at a later date. Badeh is, by the new motion filed by his lawyer, Akin Olujinmi (SAN), challenging the court’s jurisdiction and the competence of the charge against him.

Led in evidence by lead prosecution lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), Yishau said he routinely assisted Badeh to divert money which he converts to dollar before handing same to Badeh at his official residence.

He said the NAF received monthly allocations in its Capital Vote account with the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos; the Overhead Vote account with Zenith Bank Plc and the Personnel and Emolument Vote account with the UBA.

The witness said he assisted Badeh to acquire and develop landed property in Abuja with the N558.2 million taken monthly form the Personnel Emolument account. He said the money formed part of the leftover after salaries and allowances of workers had been defrayed from the N4 billion received monthly.

He said the monthly movement of the dollar equivalent of N558.2 million to Badeh was not documented because it was not the practice in the military to request a written agreement.

His words: “Although, I cannot remember the figure each year, we received a little about N4 billion monthly for the personnel emolument allocation account. However, our total wage bill as at that time was above N2 billion monthly.

“The balance of the personnel emolument was usually about N1.6 billion to N1.7 billion, depending on the month. Of this amount, N558, 200,000 was for the monthly general administration of the Chief of Army Staff.

“As the Director of Accounts, I would instruct the finance officer at the headquarters of NAF camp, Abuja and after the money is changed, I would take it to Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh at his official resident in Niger Barracks.

“As military officers, we don’t request for any agreement. However, in some case, I told the finance officers to meet me at the Air House in Niger Barracks with the money so that he can see when I handed over the money to Badeh.

“The instruction for conversion is not in writing. The Chief of Air Staff does give many instructions that are not in writing. The only instructions that were in writing were those requests forwarding instructions from branches and units for approval. When the approvals are given, they are forwarded to my office for necessary payment action.”

The witness denied benefiting directly from the money but that Badeh helped him to complete the houses he was constructing in Abuja and Kaduna, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has temporarily attached.

Yishau said Badeh was the second CAS he served as the Director of Finance Accounts and that Badeh’s predecessor, M.D Umar was still being investigated by the EFCC. He said Badeh provided the dollar equivalents for the purchase of the various property which he assisted him to locate in various parts of Abuja.

“Sometimes in January 2013, the then Chief of Air Staff, asked me to get him a good house in Maitama, where he wants to retire in. I have a friend who was into property, Hussein Umar and I contacted him. Umar said the house he got was N1.1 billion and I told Air Chief Marshal Badeh, which he agreed to pay.

Yishau said Badeh paid another N260 million to purchase a duplex at No. 19 Kumasi Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja for his first son, Alex Badeh (Jnr), N60 million to renovate it and another N90 million to furnish it.

Badeh, he added, bought a commercial plot of land at Plot 1386, Oda Crescent Cadastral Zone A07, Wuse II, Abuja for N650 million and paid N878 million for the construction of a shopping mall at same address and another N304 million to complete the plaza.

Yishau told the court that Badeh paid N330 million to Honourable Bature for a duplex at No. 14 Adzope Crescent, Off Kumasi Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja and also paid N240 million to Rabiu Isyaku Rabiu to buy a semi-detached duplex at No. 8A, Embu Street, by Sigma Apartment, Wuse II, Abuja, for another of his son, Kam. He said the property at No. 2 Nelson Mandela Street Asokoro, Abuja was renovated with N62 million.

As the witness spoke, Badeh wrote intermittently on a plain sheet.

Badeh and a firm, Iyalikam Nigeria Limited were arraigned on March 7 on a 10-count charge of breach of trust and corruption for allegedly diverting about N3.97 billion from NAF’s account.

Although the court later granted him bail at N2 billion with two sureties at N1 billion each, it was learnt yesterday that he was yet to meet the bail conditions.

Justice Abang adjourned till March 23 for continuation of trial.

1,200 teachers get employment letters

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the employment of 1,200 primary school teachers to boost the manpower capacity of public primary schools.
The successful teachers were appointed after stages of examinations organised to get the best of brains for the schools.
Congratulating the newly-employed teachers, Chairman of the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LSUBEB), Dr Ganiyu Oluremi Sopeyin, urged them to reciprocate the government’s gesture by giving their best.
He noted that the board has a reward system to honour hard work, dedication and honesty.
He also told them to expect “more goodies from the Governor”.
The new teachers were sent SMS messages to collect their letters of employment from the LSUBEB headquarters at Maryland.

NJC ready to sanction corrupt judges —CJN

March 17, 2016

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Ade Adesomoju

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, said on Monday that the National Judicial Council was prepared to sanction judges found culpable of corrupt practices.

The CJN, who doubles as the Chairman of NJC, said this in Abuja in his opening remarks at the 2016 refresher course for judicial officers on current trends in law and administration of justice.

The event, organised by the National Judicial Institute, was with the theme, ‘Promoting judicial performance through innovations and reforms’.

“It bears reminding that Your Lordships have sworn to adhere to your Oath of Office as contained in the 1999 Constitution and the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers, 2003.

“Indeed, let me reiterate that where any judicial officer is found culpable of corrupt practice, you can be rest assured of the preparedness and resolve of the National Judicial Council to sanction such Judicial Officer appropriately,” the CJN said.

The CJN, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the NJI, called on judges at all levels to join hands with patriotic citizens in the campaign for “zero-tolerance for corrupt practices within our courts”.

Justice Mohammed said in an era when the judiciary had been “harshly” judged as being corrupt, judges must shun corruption and live above board in order to establish public confidence.

He said, “The negative effects of corruption have been experienced by every Nigerian in one way or the other.

“It also bears reminding that the Judiciary has been judged harshly and on the receiving end of allegations of corruption in its operations.

“At this crucial time in our nation’s history, we must show the red card to corruption, while joining hands as patriotic citizens to campaign for zero-tolerance for corrupt practices within our courts.

“We must not forget our noble duty as ministers in the temple of justice to uphold the rule of law impartially and without fear.

“In order to establish and sustain public confidence in the judicial process, judges must live above board, shun corruption, and avoid corrupt practices and misconduct.”

The CJN also lauded the new Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 and urged judges to be “stringent in applying the law strictly”.

He also called on judges to treat corruption cases with urgency in order to ensure that justice was done to all parties involved.

The CJN added, “I must similarly urge Your Lordships to treat cases related to economic crimes and corruption with the necessary urgency that the previously mentioned 2013 Practice Directions mandate us to apply.

“Judges must also be stringent in applying the law strictly in order to render justice in a satisfactory manner to all parties whether they are the state, the accused or the victim.”

He hailed the new law, particularly for its provisions which had put an end to interlocutory applications deployed by high profile suspects to stall their trial.

He said though the judiciary was being unjustly ciriticised for delay in corruption trials, it had, as far back as 2013, adopted a practice direction mandating that such cases should be heard on a daily basis.

He said, “My Lords, as you all are well aware, the judiciary has had to endure intense, largely unjustified and grossly uninformed criticisms regarding delay in the administration of justice.

“However, I am proud that the judiciary was well ahead of the curve when the 2013 Practice Directions on Serious Crimes were adopted as the Directions were aimed at reducing criminal trial delays.

“Nonetheless, the new Act strengthens our resolve as it provides that applications for stay of proceedings shall no longer be heard in respect of a criminal matter before the court.

“This unprecedented provision puts a stop to the delays occasioned by interlocutory applications to stay proceedings pending appeal on preliminary matters when the substantive issues are yet to be tried on the merits.

“Upon arraignment, the trial of the defendant shall proceed from day-to-day until the conclusion of the trial, while each party is entitled to only five adjournments not exceeding two weeks each. Where the trial is still not concluded, the interval for adjournments will be provisions will be fully utilised.”

Auto crash kills 10 in Ogun

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Auto crash kills 10 in Ogun

Published on March 16, 2016 by pmnews · No Comments

FILE PHOTO: Federal Road Safety Officers at an accident scene

No fewer than 10 persons lost their lives in an accident, involving a Mazda bus and an articulated vehicle at Ajebo area, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun on Wednesday.
Mr Divis Ogiamien, Deputy Corps Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC) in Ogun, confirmed the accident.
He told newsmen that the Mazda bus rammed into the trucks at about 2:10 p.m.
According to him, 10 persons were confirmed dead in the accident, while six persons were critically injured.
“The accident happened around First Square Camp in Ajebo, along the Lagos- Abeokuta Expressway, which involving a Mazda bus and an Hiveco truck where 16 casualties were involved.
“A Mazda bus with registration number APP 912 XH was travelling to Lagos, while the Hiveco truck with registration number GGE 338 XL, was travelling to Ibadan.
“On that axis, there is a traffic diversion, the bus was coming from Ibadan and wrongly overtook and rammed into the Hiveco truck coming from Ibadan,” he said.
Ogiamien said that the corpses had been deposited at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) mortuary in Sagamu, while the injured were taken to the same hospital.

China Wants to Import More Oil From Nigeria

March 16, 2016

Jill Malandrino

FILE - A crude oil importing port in Qingdao, Shandong province, China.

NEW YORK — Despite instability in crude oil prices, global production at record highs and Iran coming back on line to produce more oil than analysts expected, China wants to import more crude oil from Nigeria.
In an interview with the Nigerian News Agency, Zao LingXiang, economic and commercial counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, said, “In my opinion, it really doesn’t matter whether Iran comes back or not. Chinese companies want to import more crude oil from Nigeria.”
The total amount of export to China was only about 1 million barrels in 2015, which was just 1.3 percent of Nigeria’s annual export. LingXiang said trade volume between both countries stood at nearly $15 billion, making Nigeria the third-largest trade partner of China in Africa.
China, overall, is Africa’s largest trading partner. Besides oil, other key goods China imports from Nigeria include machinery, transportation equipment, textiles, home appliances, medicine and computers.
“China is the largest developing country in the world, and Nigeria is the largest developing country in Africa, and both countries have complimentary advantages in natural and human resources, funds and markets,” LingXiang said.
This development is crucial for Nigeria because the economy is oil-dependent. Oil accounts for 80 percent of government revenues, and because of the plunge in prices since June 2014, the economy has suffered and the naira has fallen sharply.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's government has been making strides to diversify the economy, which is fully in line with the 10 China-Africa cooperation plans announced at the summit on China-Africa trade in Johannesburg in 2015.
The Chinese government announced that the 10 cooperation plans would strengthen cooperation with Africa in the coming three years. They cover the areas of industrialization, agricultural modernization, infrastructure, financial services, green development, trade and investment facilitation, poverty reduction and public welfare, public health, people-to-people exchanges, and peace and security

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