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Consumers seel< stable power supply before tariff reduction r"'JSTOMERS of the Powe( \...Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), on 1iJesday, in Lagos, urged the Federal Government to work towards achieving stable power supply in the counny before embarking on tariff reduction. The customers told the News Agency of Nigeria, that government should tackle power generation and distribution before talking of effecting a reduction in tariff. The Presidential Task Force on Power, had on Sunday, said that reduced electricity tariffs would be annouhced by the Nigerian Electricity Regufatory Commission (NERC), in April. Astatement Signed by Head, Media and Communications of the Task Force, Mr Abimbola
Agboluaje, on Sunday, stated that the new tariff would reduce the cost of electricity by 65 percent. '1be poorest Nigerians pay more than 1>180 per kwh, burning candles, kerosene and firewood while the majority of Nigerians pay 1>150 to 1>170 per Kwn on generators and manufacturers pay between 1>145 and 1>160 per kwh on diesel or IPFO generation, using larger generators," the statement noted. In his reaction, Managing Director, Folly-Dee Frozen Foods, Lagos, Alhaja Folami Adisa, said that what the nation needed at the moment was constant power supply and not a reduction in electricitytariff. Adisa said that many com-
Expert canvasses integrated approach for food security 'T'iE Managing Director, .1 Upper Niger River Basin Development Authori ry, Prof. Paul Marley, has urged the Federal Government to adopt integrated approach - in ensuring food security in the countty. He told the News Agency of Nigeria, on Tuesday, in -Abuja, that achieving food security involves the integration of various processes. _ Marley said that food security could .be achieved by the provision of basic infrastructure to farmers. _ He added that the provision of improved seedlings
and fertilisers, were essential to increasing farmers' output and urged government to proVide farmers with modern equipment to encourage them to engage in mechanised farming. "You cannot expect people to go to school and come back and hold hoes and cut-
lasses to farm. They will shy away from that kind of rudImentary agriculture. "If we are able to mechanise our agricultural system, it will serve as impetus for the young ones to be interested in farming," he said. Marley also stressed the importance of research into post-l'roduction techniques and Improvement in post production technologies. He .noted with regret that even the small quantity of food produced by local farmers, were not properly preserved and stored for local consumption and export. ·We need harvest and postharvest technologies that will make us store food for a period of time," he added. Marley Identified the lack of finance as another important factor militating against the achievement of food security in Nigeria.
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panies had relocated due to erratic power supply, adding: "Even at the moment, If the cost of electricity g'les up by 100 per cent, many Nigerians will be willing to pay, provided electricity is constant. "We were told that the power sector reform will commence late last year, but nothing reasonable has come out of it. Nigerians are tired of promises, what we need now is real~ ty," she said. A civil servant, Mr. Francis Andrew; said that government should take the implementation of its policies one afterthe other, rather than place so much on ground ana achieving nothing. Andrew said that government should look inward in solving the problems in the power sector before embarkmg on tariff reduction. "You cannot reduce tariff when there is no supply, government should tackle electricity stability first. What we
need now is more actions," he
said. Also, a consultant, Mr. Ambrose FranciS, said that It was a good decision for the government to consider reduction of electricity tariff, adding that Nigerians were paying high rate on electricity consumption. FranCIS said that a lot of PHCN billings were faulty, sayIng that it should be corrected first before the commencement of the privatisation programme. "We should all support the
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