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President Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned Nigerian youths to be of proper behavior if they need jobs in the country.
Buhari gave the advice in an interview with arise tv on Thursday.
The President who bemoaned the spate of violence in the country, urged Nigerian youths to make the country comfortable so it could attract investors.
He said, â€I told them to tell the youths if they need jobs they should have to behave themselves, make Nigeria secure In order for People to come and invest. Nigeria is resourceful; every body knows that, God has really endowed us.â€
“Youths must behave themselves to make Nigeria comfortable and they will get jobs due to the fact nobody can spend money on an unsecured environment,†he Stated.
On June 2, Chris Oh Modebel allegedly possessed 30.5 grammes of cocaine and 0.6 grammes of kakuseizai, or stimulant drugs, found in an electrical meter box for a building in the district.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of violating the narcotics and stimulants control laws, Modebel denied the allegations, according to Tokyo Reporter.
“I know nothing about the matter,†the suspect said.
The police, however, said Modebel, who lives in Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, is the leader of a drug-dealing ring composed of Nigerian nationals.
During the investigation, police seized a total of 289 grammes of cocaine, 58.2 grammes of stimulant drugs and an unspecified amount of MDMA, or Ecstasy, from the meter box. The contraband has a combined street value of 9.6 million yen (about US $90,000)
For this case, police used a new chemical for the on-the-spot identification of cocaine.
In 2012 and the next year, police used chemicals that mistakenly identified substances as cocaine. This led to persons being arrested by mistake.
Sentences differ based on technicalities, but the maximum sentence for drug offences in Japan is life imprisonment.
The president said this during an interview with Arise TV on Thursday.
The last time the President threatened to treat people "in the language they understand", he was referring to the insecurity in the South-East, but this attracted public criticism as many Nigerians found it distasteful.
The comment was also deleted by Twitter on the microblogging site, an action that later earned the site a ban in Nigeria.
“Problem in the North-West; you have people over there stealing each other’s cattle and burning each other’s villages. Like I said, we are going to treat them in the language they understand. We have given the police and the military the power to be ruthless. You watch it in a few weeks’ time there will be difference," Buhari said.
â€Because we told them if we keep people away from their farm, we are going to starve. And the government can’t control the public. If you allow hunger, the government is going to be in trouble and we don’t want to be in trouble. We are already in enough trouble. So we warn them sooner than later you’ll see the difference.â€
The acting Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Chairman, Executive Board of the West African Power Pool (WAPP), Engr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, stated this on Wednesday during the WAPP meeting on the Northcore project in Abuja.
According to Daily Trust, about 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity is said to be unutilised daily across the Generation Companies (GenCos) in Nigeria and could be exported.
“The power we will be selling is the power that is not needed in Nigeria. These generators that are going to supply power to this transmission line are going to generate that power specifically for this project. So it is unutilised power,†Abdulaziz said.
He also noted that Nigeria is expecting new generators to participate in the energy export for the 875 kilometre 330 kilovolts Northcore transmission line from Nigeria through Niger, Togo, Benin to Burkina Faso.
“In addition, there are some communities that are under the line route, about 611 of them which will be getting power so that there won’t be just a transmission line passing without impact.â€
The project is funded by World Bank, French Development Council and the African Development Bank.
Speaking on the benefits, the WAPP chairman noted, “Nigeria has the greatest advantage among these countries because the electricity is going to be exported from Nigerian GenCos. So from that, the revenue is going to be enhanced and a lot of people will be employed in Nigeria.â€
The Secretary General of WAPP, Siengui Appolinaire Ki, said: “The cost is about $570 million and the part of the investment in each country is funded by the country and they are supported by the donors, and Nigeria is taking its own.â€
He also said the funding agreement is ready as they await the disbursement.
Nigeria battles with poor power supply which affects its productivity and the general economy, so many Nigerians often ask the government to boost its transmission capacity so that unused electricity can be utilised by the country instead of selling such to other nations.
Nigeria reportedly has the potential to generate 12,522 MW of electric power from existing plants but only able to dispatch around 4,000 MW, which is insufficient for a country of about million people.