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NIGERIA – MAJOR ENERGY CRISIS – WOMEN & GIRLS MOST
VULNERABLE – PRIORITIES: WHO RULES !!
*What do women in labor do to get to hospitals or birthing centers?
*What will happen to women dependent on respirators, dialysis, and other energy-dependent medical devices?
*How will girls get to/from school?
*What will happen to elderly or disabled women who cannot go up and down stairs, and now the elevators do not work?
AND YET:
*One can read online about the successes of the largest commercial banks in Nigeria:
http://answersafrica.com/list-of-largest-commercial-banks-in-nigeria.html
*One year after their abductions, headlines again focused on the abducted Chibok Nigeria Schoolgirls. But, they remain missing; and the
media attention has moved on…. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32289961
DSG Herald News - http://heraldnewsmagazine.com/solution-to-nigerias-energy-crisis/
April 20, 2015 ……Energy demand in the country
is dominated by fuel wood, and women and children are the most affected in
the energy crisis. The energy sector thus totally relies on government’s
subsidised fuel and funding of major energy plants and energy capital projects
by the Federal Government, states and government agencies. The government has
not been able to find permanent solutions that will resolve the problems. The
irony of the situation is that, as the abundance of the vast oil and gas
reserves are in Nigeria, so also are the abundance of renewable energy potential,
but the country still depends on alternatives that are still within the limits
of fossil fuels, which are the only sources that currently power the nation
economy……
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201505251677.html
Nigeria Faces Shutdown As Energy Crisis Worsens
May 25, 2015 - Lagos, Kano and
Ilorin — Nigeria faces a shutdown as fuel becomes increasingly unavailable
nationwide and prices doubled or tripled in some places.
Petrol, diesel and even kerosene
are longer being sold in 80% of fuel stations across Nigeria, according to
reports by our correspondents.
The situation is so critical that
motorists are stranded at filling stations for a whole day.
As a result transport fares have
shot up sharply - in some places rising by 100% or more.
Airlines have also cut flights by
half, leaving passengers stranded and some angry for being forced to miss
crucial business trips.
All these are compounded by power
generation which has dropped to all time low forcing critical services like
hospitals, banks and telecoms to depend ever more on generator plants.
But our correspondents report
that even such alternative services are themselves threatened by the current
fuel shortages.