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Company Name: Great Nigeria Insurance Plc (www.GreatNigeriaPlc.com)
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Great Nigeria Insurance Plc – December 2015 Audited Accounts
Gross Premium Written Dec 2015: N3.115B Dec 2014: N2.791B
Profit before Tax Dec 2015: N249.459M Dec 2014: N(60.566M)
Taxation Dec 2015: 276.987M Dec 2014 (N34.934M)
Profit after Tax Dec 2015: N526.536M Dec 2014: (N95.500M)
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The U.S. Department of State in partnership with the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) officially launched the African Utility Power Sector Exchange (AUPSE) today with a summit in Washington, D.C. attended by African and U.S. utility Chief Executive Officers (CEO). The summit was opened by Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for the Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources Ambassador Mary Warlick and Tom Kuhn, President of EEI. Other keynotes included Abel Tella, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Power Utilities of Africa and Dr. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies from Harvard University. This exchange, hosted by the Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources, is part of Power Africa, a U.S. Government-led initiative with the goal of increasing electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa by adding more than 30,000 megawatts of reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity generation capacity and 60 million new home and business connections.
Utility CEOs from six African nations met their counterparts from the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia to discuss a range of cutting edge power sector management issues such as the integration of renewable energy onto the grid, providing electricity for remote populations, and long-term sustainability.
The U.S.-Africa Utility Power Sector Exchange project, which State and EEI are implementing jointly, aims to advance electric power sector reform and development in underdeveloped markets. These underdeveloped markets experience the greatest challenges to energy access. This joint initiative encourages the exchange of ideas and best practices in the management of utilities as both Africa and the United States move forward to face 21st century challenges. This public-private partnership combines the best of the private sector with U.S. diplomatic leadership to deepen and broaden U.S. support for expanding energy access and improving energy efficiency helping to modernize Africa’s electric utilities.
For further information, please contact Alexandra Z. Tenny at TennyAZ@state.gov ext 6-7970, or visit www.state.gov/e/enr, or find us on Twitter @EnergyAtState.
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DFID hands over motorcycles and bicycles to support primary justice:
In a bid to ease mobility challenges for its partners when working to ensure increased access to justice for most vulnerable members in society, the Department for International Development (DFID) has, through its Justice for Vulnerable Groups (JVG) Programme, presented 3100 bicycles to the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and 60 motorcycles and 100 bicycles to the judiciary.
Since 2011, the UK has, through JVG, supported community and district mechanisms to prevent violence against women and children and support traditional and formal justice systems to be more accountable and responsive to women, children and detainees.
3100 bicycles that have been handed over to CCJP will support a nationwide network of community based educators (CBEs) to effectively carry out their work in the community of training local tribunals, supporting citizens to access justice and resolving local disputes.
On the other hand, the 60 motorcycles and 100 bicycles that have gone to the judiciary will, respectively, support lay magistrates to be more responsive to the needs of people in rural areas and Court Clerks and Court Marshalls to deliver summons, coordinate court camps and expedite the justice process.
DFID’s Head of Office in Malawi, Jen Marshall, said the donation of bicycles and motorbikes will help ensure sustainability of everybody’s efforts to date to increase access to justice for the most vulnerable.
“The UK’s investment moving forward will build on the results to date, focusing specifically on the major challenge of gender-based violence which affects so many women and children in Malawi. We aim to support interventions to prevent gender-based violence in the first place, and will also support survivors of violence to have access to improved justice services,” Marshal said
Representing CCJP during the handover of the bicycles, the Archbishop of Lilongwe Diocese Tarcizio Ziyaye thanked the UK government for equipping CCJP’s officers with bicycles to effectively do their job in rural areas. For his part, the head of Malawi Judiciary, the honourable Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda SC, said the assets would help the judiciary to reach the greater part of community that is in rural areas.
“These motorcycles and bicycles will certainly allow us to take justice to the greater part of our community where we have the majority of the vulnerable groups. In distributing these resources, we must therefore undertake to mainly target rural courts; that we will do,” Justice Nyirenda said.
Achievements under the Justice for Vulnerable Groups Programmes
JVG has come to a close in 2017 and a new gender-based violence programme will be launched sometime in the year. In the just-ended programme, the UK worked with four main partners—the Paralegal Advisory Services Institute (PASI), UNICEF, CCJP and the Judiciary.
PASI
PASI’s work focused on reducing pre-trial detention and contributed to a reduction in the average duration of pre-trial detention from 3 years to 6 months. This has helped ensure that there are no children in prison and that no children are kept in police cells for more than 48 hours.
Support to UNICEF
Support to UNICEF mainly focused on strengthening the Malawian child protection system to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect of women and children. Police Victim Support Units and Community Support Victim Units have been set up across the country to respond to cases involving women and children specifically. UNICEF has trained over 400 police officers in violence against women and girls handling and case management. Currently, more women and families are using the Victim Support Unit Services, indicating increased satisfaction among users.
The Malawi Judiciary
The Malawi Judiciary played a crucial role in increasing access to justice and reducing pre-trial detention and prison congestion by training and deploying 57 Lay Magistrates to rural areas. This has been successfully done with all trained magistrates deployed, including to remote areas such as Nyungwe and Mlowe in Karonga. The judiciary also provided tailor made courses for already trained magistrates and court officials on remand orders, community service orders and non-custodial sentencing options, including sentencing for petty offences and first-time offenders. In addition, they have conducted camp courts and Court User Committee meetings which have helped reduce prison congestion.
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP)
CCJP has been the key partner in the programme for delivering the Primary Justice component, working with traditional and informal justice mechanisms in all 28 districts across the country and in 155 Traditional Authorities. CCJP has a national network of 3100 Community Based Educators who train local tribunals, support citizens to access justice and are a key player in resolving local disputes. As a result of this programme, women are now represented on all local tribunals across the country, cases are being recorded which has helped build trust in these important local institutions. 60% of women who have brought land disputes to local tribunals have had cases resolved in their favour.
Distributed by APO on behalf of British High Commission – Lilongwe.
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