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Nature's Solar Power and How it is Revolutionizing Agriculture"

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  Solar power is revolutionizing agriculture by providing a sustainable, cost-effective, and efficient energy source. This transformation is helping to modernize farming practices, enhance productivity, and promote environmental sustainability. Solar-powered irrigation: Solar water pumps: these pumps use solar panels to draw water from wells, rivers, or reservoirs, providing a reliable water source for irrigation even in remote areas. Drip and sprinkler irrigation systems: solar energy powers these systems, ensuring precise water delivery to crops, reducing water waste, and improving crop yields. Solar greenhouses: Greenhouses equipped with solar panels generate their own electricity, reducing dependency on external power sources. These greenhouses can maintain optimal growing conditions year-round, increasing the production of high-value crops. Solar-powered machinery: Solar energy can power electric tractors, harvesters, and other farm machinery, reducing reliance

Excess Power Supply in Nigeria?

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 Nigerian power sector strategy over the past decade had focused on breaking up the national power company and developing gas-to-power projects. The unbundling process seems to have had little impact, while much of the new gas-fired capacity is unused because of gas supply problems. Nigeria’s power sector has been a reflection of the economic growth strategy of the country. Power is a strategic infrastructure and represents the most important requirement for moving the economy forward. In post-independence Nigeria, the need for large-scale investments in power infrastructure resulted in government dominance in the sector’s activities. The Power Holding Company Of Nigeria (PHCN) is a government-owned utility company responsible for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity throughout Nigeria. It is estimated that about 40 percent of Nigerians have access to electricity. Of the 6113 MW of installed generating capacity, only about 3300 MW is available, whereas demand i

How to Attain Maximum Career Growth

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 What Is Career Growth? In basic terms, career growth is the process of climbing the career ladder. Most often achieved through promotion, is the action of advancing from your current post to a position of higher standing. For example, if you start your working life as a junior developer and three years later become a lead developer, you have achieved career growth. The next step on the ladder may be the senior developer or creative director. Though promotion is the most common form of professional advancement, your career growth plan may involve moving from your current employer to a higher-level role within a new organization. The term career lattice is also used for career growth. This term is a modern interpretation of organizational structure and suggests growth is no longer a case of simply moving up but may also involve sideways steps. For example, a sales executive may become a sales and marketing executive, before advancing to sales and marketing lead. To summarize, career gro

How to actively grow your career

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  To be competitive in today’s job market you have to appropriately define your goals and strive to grow yourself in line with your goals. When you deliberately invest in your personal and career development you stand a high chance of getting new opportunities, higher salaries and increased overall career satisfaction. This article provides step by step procedures for career goals and development as well as answer frequently asked questions in career growth. Personal development and career growth are closely related and pursuing one usually encourages the other. Career growth focuses on acquiring new skills and gaining more experience to positively impact your current position and any role you are likely to pursue in your career. By expanding your skills and thinking ahead, you are preparing yourself to handle more responsibilities. Regardless of your position, there is always more to learn. Investing in your career growth shows ambition, self-awareness, humility and tenacity. So

Ultimate Solutions to Electricity Challenges in Nigeria

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  Nigeria, as one of the largest economies on Africa, has substantial installed generation capacity of  more than 50,832 gigawatts of electricity   compared to the country's peak demand of 23,398 tetrawatts . Most of Nigeria’s energy comes from  traditional biomass and waste , due to the huge reliance on the energy source for cooking and heating purposes by majority of the Nigerian people which account for 83% of total primary production. The rest is from fossil fuels and hydropower, Coal, petroleum reserves, natural gas,solar and wind resources .  Before the beginning of the Fourth Nigerian republic, power generation was mainly the responsibility of the federal government through NEPA. But reforms started in 2005 with the signing of the Electric Power Sector Reform Act opened up the industry to private investors. In 2014, the sector was privatized with three groups having the responsibility of providing power. Nigeria is the largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa, but limit

How Insurance makes our lives better

Insurance is  a contract , in which an individual or group gets protection against losses. The company in charge is called an insurance company. The company pools clients' risks to make payments more affordable for the person insured. An insurance policy is the contract that you take out with an insurer to protect you against specific risks under agreed terms. Purpose of insurance Due to the unpredictable nature of life insurance is aimed at reducing and making accidental losses manageable. A small fee known as an insurance premium is the substituting payment made to a professional insurer for the promise of a higher pay in the event of a larger and   greater loss. The company  pools clients' risks  to make payments more affordable for the insured. What are the principles of insurance? In the insurance world there are   fundamental principles that must be met they include an   Insurable interest, Utmost good faith, Proximate cause,   Indemnity, Subro