{"id":440822,"date":"2011-06-14T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/14\/ssouth-govs-to-set-up-joint-electricityoil-gas-coy\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:00:58","slug":"ssouth-govs-to-set-up-joint-electricityoil-gas-coy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/ssouth-govs-to-set-up-joint-electricityoil-gas-coy\/","title":{"rendered":"S\/South govs to set up joint electricity,oil &#038; gas coy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"88\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0PORT HARCOURT \u2013 SIX states of the South South region are to establish a common regional Electricity company and oil and gas firm.<\/p>\n<p>Rising from a meeting of governors of the states in Government House, Port Harcourt Monday night,\u00a0 under the aegis of BRACED, an acronym for the states, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Edo and Delta States, the governors said they also signed an agreement during the meeting for the take-off of a Regional Economic Cooperation under the common platform.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Present at the meeting which lasted several hours were governors of Bayelsa, Cross River, Edo, Delta and Rivers states.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0Chairman of the South-South Governor\u2019s Council, Senator Liyel Imoke who read the communiqu\u00e9 of the meeting said they\u00a0have also concluded steps on how to conduct feasibility on the regional economic projects.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0He said that in a bid to fast track the process, the second South-South Economic Summit would be held at Asaba, Delta State from October 13th to 15th this year, while a strategic meeting of commissioners of Economic Development, Planning, Finance, Agriculture, Commerce and Industry in the region would be convened within 60 days from\u00a0 today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0According to Governor Imoke, the BRACED Commission headquarters offices would be located in Port Harcourt, and would focus on human capacity development, Education, Information and Communications Technology, Infrastructural Development, Agric and Investment.<\/p>\n<p>The Communiqu\u00e9, which was signed by the five governors present at the meeting, also affirmed the readiness of the states to work out, between now and 2012, an effective mechanism for the re-certification of teachers as part of efforts to encourage teachers training, thus, improving the quality of education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senator Imoke, who is the Cross Rivers State Governor, hinted that as a way to ensure that all the states operate on the same pedestal, the BRACED Commission would organize common retreat for Commissioners and top functionaries of government and business community, and for the civil service as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. 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