Electricity consumers all over the country heaved a sigh of relief, following the decision of the federal government to handover the operation of Power Holding Company Of Nigeria to private operators nationwide. . The handover of electricity business to private individuals was seen as the final solution to curb incessant power supply to millions of household and business concerns, and a means to boost the economy, especially through small and medium scale enterprises. . But so far, the reverse has been the case, as major cities and businesses still groan under epileptic power supply. A look at the state of…
Author: David F.
GOVERNORS under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF Frirday condemned in very strong terms, the massacre of fifty- three students of Federal Government College, Bunu Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram, urging the Federal government to protect the lives of those still alive. . Moved by the incessant killings and destruction of property by members of Boko Haram unabated inspite of military presence in the areas, the governors however urged the Federal Government to comprehensively review the present strategies used in fighting terrorists as the present methods were…
The kidnappers of Chief Inengite Nitabai, cousin to President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded the sum of N500m ransom to set him free. . Nitabai, aged 70, was abducted last Sunday by ten armed men at his Otuoke residence in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State and taken away in his private Sports Utitlity Vehicle after collecting N400,000 from his wife. . The vehicle was later recovered at Unuegbum waterfront where it was abandoned, an indication that the gunmen escaped through the creek. . The victim, his wife, his wife’s sister and three of his children were in the house…
The Nigerian Army Friday refuted reports that Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State was attacked by terrorists and that more terrorists have been arrested while 13 of them died following a raid on their make shift camp sited between Borno and Adamawa states. . The army in a statement signed by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director Defence Information, said that some of those who escaped from earlier raid have also been picked up in Maiduguri and environs. . Meanwhile, calm has returned to Shuwa after the pandemonium generated by the panic in the community this morning when people sighted the…
The U.S government on Thursday urged the Federal Government to ensure that the 2015 general elections were credible. . The U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle, made the call in Abeokuta during an official visit to the state. . Entwistle, who was accompanied by the U.S Consul General, Mr Jeffery Hawkins, said that his country had interest in Nigeria’s 2015 general elections. . He expressed the hope that the elections would be transparent, credible and non violent. . The U.S Ambassador also lauded the ongoing infrastructural development in Ogun, describing it as “rapid and impressive.’’ . Entwistle was conducted…
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed at least 37 people in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, including at a theological college, a local government official and residents said on Thursday. . The coordinated attacks in Adamawa state late on Wednesday came just a day after Islamist militant fighters were blamed for killing 43 people, most of them students, as they slept at a boarding school in Yobe state. . The chairman of the Madagali local government area in Adamawa, Maina Ularamu, said “a large number of militants carried out three separate attacks on Shuwa and Kirchinga in my local government…
Nearly 300,000 people, more than half of them children, have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria since May last year because of violence linked to radical Islamist group Boko Haram, the United Nations said on Thursday. . Three states in the region have been under emergency rule since last May 14, when the military launched a massive offensive to stamp out the insurgency, which has killed thousands since 2009. . Injured corps members at the SSS Centre in Bauchi Credible figures, including for casualties, have been difficult to obtain, as waves of attacks across a swathe of remote territory have…
The Kwara State Government has pledged to provide more facilities for effective learning and teaching in tertiary institutions in the state. . The new Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Alhaji Aliyu Opakunle, made the pledge on Thursday in Ilorin during a visit to three tertiary institutions in the state. . Opakunle also said the state government was committed to the provision of qualitative and quantitative education.The commissioner urged the staff of tertiary institutions to be dedicated, committed and upright in the discharge of their duties. . Opakunle, who also admonished students to concentrate on their studies, advised. the…
Anambra State government said, on Thursday, it was targeting about 2.6 million people for immunisation during the March, 2014 National Immunisation Plus Days starting tomorrow in all parts of the country. . A breakdown of the target population shows that 1,043,187 children under five years, 1,147,506; women of child bearing age, 260,797 pregnant women and 208,637 children under one year are to be immunised during the four-day exercise. . Briefing reporters in Awka on the preparations for the exercise, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor, said though there had been no reported case of polio in Anambra State…
Former presidential candidate under the Social Democratic Mega Party, SDMP, Professor Pat Utomi has attributed the slow pace of development in the country to lack of true federal arrangement of the country’s political system. . Utomi and other speakers, at the public presentation of two books, ‘Pages and Sages’ and ‘Leading with Courage and Integrity’ authored by Odey Ochicha, in Abuja, insisted that true federalism was fundamental to development. . They also unanimously noted that Nigeria “needs courageous leadership, if the country must survive her trying period, and be reckoned with in the comity of nations.” . They were of…