scholarly journals Evaluation of Protection of Critical Infrastructure in Nigeria. A Case Study of Protection of Power Facilities in Abuja

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saladin Quadri Adigun
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Government

This research work investigated the protection of critical infrastructure in Nigeria with special attention to electric power infrastructure within Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The study was guided by six research questions and the instrument employed for the research was titled ‘Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Protection of Critical Infrastructure’ (EEPCI). The study was carried out among the consumers of electricity in three of the six Area Councils, the security personnel employed to guard as well as the workers of the power facilities called Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in the capital territory. The entire population of the study was 3,750 and this cut across the strata of the stakeholders in power industry. The data gathered were analyzed by the use of frequency, percentages and statistical mean distribution technique. Findings from the study showed that the existing protection techniques are weak, unassertive and the power companies are slow to mitigating effects of attacks on their facilities. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that policies and equipment protection strategies be utilized by the power companies and the government. The study laid emphasis on establishment of community anti-crime group and provision of free toll hotline for emergency purposes. Furthermore, the penalty for damages to power facilities was recommended to be stiffer and the security should be empowered to excel in their profession.

scholarly journals Assessment of Equipment Maintenance Practices for Effective Electric Power Distribution in Adamawa State

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. p12
Author(s):  
Dauda Moses ◽  
L. C. Ezugu ◽  
Onwuka Immaculater Akudo ◽  
Isaac John Ibanga
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Equipment Maintenance ◽  
Electric Power Distribution ◽  
Reliability Method ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Level Of Significance

The main purpose of this study was to assess equipment maintenance practices for effective electric power distribution in Adamawa State by Yola Electricity Distribution Company. Three research questions and three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 69 consisting of 46 technicians and 23 supervisors in Yola Electricity Distribution Company. The whole population was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire developed by the researchers titled “Assessment of Equipment Maintenance Practices for Effective Electric Power Distribution Questionnaire (AEMPELPDQ)”. The instrument was validated by three experts and a reliability of 0.89 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha reliability method. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study revealed that Yola Electricity Distribution Company adopts monthly routine maintenance on 18 out of the 31 items listed equipment while quarterly routine maintenance is carried out on 11 of the 31 items. Weekly maintenance is adopted for only two (2) of the equipment; Out of the 31 items listed, 22 of the items are semi-annually maintained; while eight (8) of the items are annually maintained and only one (1) of the equipment (distribution board) is weekly maintained. Based on the findings, YEDC should ensure adequate inspection and supervision of equipment to prevent unwarranted breakdown that may affect effective distribution of electrical power; YEDC should ensure at least monthly routine maintenance is carried out on the equipment available to ensure effective usage.

scholarly journals Assessment of Tools and Equipment Utilization for Effective Electric Power Distribution in Yola Electricity Distribution Company, Adamawa State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Onwuka Immaculater Akudo ◽  
Dauda Moses ◽  
Amos Danlami Agbu ◽  
Umar Salisu
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Circuit Breaker ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Electric Power Distribution ◽  
Reliability Method ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Effective Distribution

The main purpose of this study was to assess the utilization of tools and equipment for effective electric power distribution by Yola Electricity Distribution Company in Adamawa State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 69 consisting of 46 technicians and 23 supervisors in Yola Electricity Distribution Company. Due to the manageable size of the population, there was no sampling; hence, the whole population was used for the study. A structured questionnaire developed by the researchers titled “Utilization of Tools and Equipment for Effective Distribution of Electricity Questionnaire (UTEEDEQ)” was used as the instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts and a reliability of 0.89 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha reliability method. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study revealed that Yola Electricity Distribution Company utilizes the following tools for effective distribution of electric power distribution: Ladder, Hand Gloves, Safety Belt, Ammeter, Ohmmeter, Voltmeter, Spanners, Screwdrivers, among others; Yola Electricity Distribution Company utilizes the following equipment for effective distribution of electric power distribution: Supply Voltage Detector, Distribution Transformer, Power Transformer, Battery Rectifier, Supply Voltage, Circuit Breaker, Spring Charger, Trip Circuit, Low Pressure Gas Indicator among other. Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made: YEDC should provide more equipment for effective distribution of electric power especially utility vehicles and other equipment necessary for effective electric power distributions.

scholarly journals Development of a Model for the Establishment of a Hydro Electric Power Generating Plant

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Adepoju G. A ◽  
Oshin Ola Austin ◽  
Kabir A. Lasisi ◽  
Ajayi Joseph Adeniyi ◽  
Oluwasanmi Alonge
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Average Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
High Level ◽  
Power Problem

Nigeria as a nation has suffered a lot when it comes to the availability of electricity. A clear comparison between this nation’s electric power supply and other countries revealed the present incessant electric power supply in the country. The average power per capital (watts per person) in the United States is 1,377 Watts. In Canada, it is as high as 1,704 Watts per person and in South Africa; it is 445 Watts per person. The average power per capital in Australia is 1,112 Watts and in New Zealand it is 1,020 W per person. Whereas, the average power per capital (watts per person) in Nigeria is 14 W person. The power system structure is characterized with a lot of faults and outages. These electric power problem has destroyed the industrial processes in the country. As a result, unemployment has increased in the country. As at February, 2020, according to the Federal Government of Nigeria, the number of unemployed youths in the country is 23 million. Data from the International Transparency in the United State stated that there are 40 million unemployed youths in the country. This has increased crime rates among the youths. The country experience a high level of hardship, insecurity and socio-economic disorder as results. Therefore, there is an urgent need to solve this incessant supply of electric power in the country. Hence, a detail study of Akure132/33kV substation Network of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company under which there are 84,264 customers was carried out. 

scholarly journals Dominant Political Parties, Struggling for Survival in Nigeria: The Narrative of Decapitated Sleaze and Crusade of Anti-Corruption Legitimacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Remi Chukwudi Okeke
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Growth And Survival ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Government

This paper examines how the dominant political parties in a corruption-prone political system have been struggling for survival (and legitimacy) based on anti-corruption crusades and the attendant supports. The study has in the process, interrogated what may constitute the core concerns of the leading political parties, in such corruption-bedeviled polities. The investigation is fundamentally, a case study of the Nigerian state. Accordingly, the central research questions of the paper are as follows: How are the two dominant political parties in Nigeria brawling for survival? Attendant to the wrestles, what is the fate of good governance in the country? The study finds that while the two dominant political parties are engaged in the scuffle to survive, a national vacuum is in contradiction, created in the area of general political mobilization. It has been posited in the paper that political parties’ legitimacies are never constructed on single societal agenda. It is finally recommended in the work that while the government (in power) may be wedging wars against the debilitating sleaze in the system, the political parties (in order to survive and retain legitimacy) must continously engage in the articulation and aggregation of politically complementary programmes and actions. This would not only lead to the survival of the parties as political entities but in a generic dimension, lead to the critically desired national growth and survival in such countries, where corruption still presents the overriding national challenge. The methodology of the paper is logical argumentation.

scholarly journals Road Construction Equipment Management: A Case Study on Selected Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Samson Mekbib Atnaw ◽  
Lakhveer Singh ◽  
Ftwi Yohaness Hagos ◽  
Abu Yousuf
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Construction Equipment ◽  
Equipment Management ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
The Government

The major share of capital and equipment intensive operation goes to the road sector and the hydro – electric power projects. The construction sector in Ethiopia is developing at a fast rate and its capital budget is increasing from year to year. One of the reasons for this high growth is the number of new construction projects underway and those in the pipeline. In addition, the hydro-electric power projects the government has given a great emphasis to increase the current installed power of 780Mw to a total of 10,000Mw in the coming few years. These hydro-power projects are known for using a great deal of high investment heavy machineries. Therefore, the construction equipment management plays a great role in finalizing the projects with fewer budgets and no time over run. Considering the higher operation, maintenance and investment cost of construction equipment, it is important to have a carefully optimized decision making model that will help in the sizing and selection of the right combination of equipment for a given project. Even the rental versus purchase evaluation needs careful consideration of the project requirement and its duration. This study tries to analyze the existing situation taking a selected company as a case study with regard to construction equipment management. The study tries to cover the equipment management policy of the company, suppliers/manufacturers evaluation and selection criteria, types of purchase processes employed, as well as different make types and capacities of equipment owned by the company. Moreover, capacities of standard facilities available for the central maintenance workshop and replacement plan of equipment of the company in the coming five years will be investigated and commented on.

QFD for utility services: a case study of electricity distribution company DESCO

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Rajib Anwar ◽  
A.K.M. Masud ◽  
Farhana Abedin ◽  
Muhammad Enayet Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Utility Services

scholarly journals Elicitation of the Factors Affecting Electricity Distribution Efficiency Using the Fuzzy AHP Method

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Vecihi Yiğit ◽  
Nazlı Nisa Demir ◽  
Hisham Alidrisi ◽  
Mehmet Emin Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Efficient and uninterrupted energy supply plays a crucial role in the quality of modern daily life, while it is obvious that the efficiency and performance of energy supply companies has a significant impact on energy supply itself and on determining and finetuning the future roadmap of the sector. In this study, the performance and efficiency of energy supply companies with respect to productivity is investigated with reference to a case study of an electricity distribution company in Turkey. The factors affecting the company’s performance and their corresponding weight have been determined and obtained using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and the Fuzzy AHP methods, two well-known multi-criteria decision-making methods, which are widely used in the literature. The results help demonstrate that the criteria obtained to evaluate the company’s energy supply performance play a crucial role in developing strategies, policies and action plans to achieve continuous improvement and consistent development.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI KURIKULUM MUATAN LOKAL DI ERA OTONOMI DAERAH MENURUT UNDANG-UNDANG SISDIKNAS NOMOR 20 TAHUN 2013 DALAM MENINGKATKAN LIFE SKILLS PESERTA DIDIK

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Agam Supriyanta
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Skill Mastery ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji implementasi kurikulum muatan lokal untuk meningkatkan life skill mencakup analisis mulai dari proses perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan pengevaluasian kurikulum muatan lokal yang dilaksanakan pada satuan pendidikan di era otonomi daerah menurut UU Sisdiknas No. 20 Tahun 2013; memaparkan landasan yuridis dalam pengembangan kurikulum muatan lokal di era otonomi daerah, menginventarisir faktor-faktor yang menjadi penghambat dalam implementasi kurikulum muatan lokal dan mengetahui life skills peserta didik melalui internalisasi dalam keterampilan peserta didik di SMA. Penelitian yuridis normatif yang bersifat kualitatif ini mengacu pada norma hukum yang terdapat dalam berbagai peraturan perundang-undangan, putusan pengadilan. Penyusunan kurikulum muatan lokal yang mendorong peserta didik menguasai life skills dilaksanakan secara bottom up yakni dimulai dengan analisis konteks, analisis potensi dan kebutuhan profil peserta didik yang diinginkan yang dilakukan oleh tim pengembang kurikulum sekolah dan dilaksanakan oleh guru mata pelajaran. Tujuan program pengembangan kurikulum muatan lokal adalah untuk memberikan bekal pengetahuan keterampilan, pembentukan sikap dan prilaku siswa, agar mereka memiliki wawasan yang luas, dan mantap tentang keadaan lingkungan dan kebutuhan masyarakat.  ABSTRACTThis study aims to examine how the implementation's of a local-based curriculum to improve students’ life skills that covers the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating local-based curriculum is carried out in educational units, examining the impact of local curriculum development on the preservation of localized culture in the skills of learners in high school, and find out factors that hamper development local content curriculum. The research questions of this research covered how the process of planning, implementing and evaluating local curriculum is carried out in the educational unit, what factors become obstacles in developing the local content curriculum at the level of the education unit, and whether there is an improvement of local culture-based skills on the unit education that organizes local content curricula. This research employed a qualitative research method. More specifically using a descriptive case study in order the phenomenon studied is presented in detail by involving two schools as research subjects residing in Cianjur regency.  The second finding is related to the improvement of life skills shown by the students on aspects of attitude or personal and social skills, knowledge or academic skills and vocational skills. Level of life skill mastery for these three aspects in the level of imitation, manipulation, precision, articulation and naturalization. The third finding showed that there was a discrepancy between the concept of local curriculum developed by the government with the level of implementation in schools.

scholarly journals Estimated billing system is the bane of grid electric power supply and development in Nigeria: An empirical analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Anthony Chibuike Ohajianya
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Billing System ◽  
Yearly Average ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Regulatory Commission

The estimated billing system for electricity was introduced in Nigeria by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in 2012 for billing customers without meters or with faulty or inaccessible meters. But instead of following the guidelines and formula provided by NERC for the estimation, the electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) resorted to billing these customers arbitrarily and frustrated efforts by NERC to ensure the proper metering of electricity consumers. This research evaluates the incentive, which makes the DisCos in Nigeria prefer the estimating billing system to a much more efficient smart prepaid metering system. To carry out the research, four Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) customers were selected. The estimated bills of these customers, which they received before they got smart prepaid meters, were compared with their prepaid meter bills for an equal period. EEDC was found to be over-billing these customers under the estimated billing system by a yearly average per customer of 64,901.67 Nigerian Naira (170.79 USD).

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