Month: June 2018

The General Manager, Public Affairs of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mrs. Ndidi Mbah, has stated that 8 thermal power generating stations are currently unable to generate electricity and have therefore been shut down as a result of gas pipeline rupture on the 15th of June, 2018, as well as technical issues at the Shell…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Buhari Administration is steadily transforming Nigeria through innovative measures that are yielding positive results. In a keynote address he delivered at the 2018 ‘Africa Together Conference’ at the University of Cambridge in the UK on Saturday, the Minister listed investment in people, changing…

– Says those 5 men culpable of killing one herdsman in Adamawa were Fished out, arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to death; while killer herdsmen who have wasted many lives are still on the prowls. Two civil society organisations, Nigeria Mourns and the Joint Nigeria Crisis Action Committee (JN-CAC), have accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari…

Governor Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara State yesterday said he had ‘resigned’ his responsibility as Chief Security Officer of the state as he allegedly had no control over the security machinery in the state. Speaking to newsmen in Talata-Mafara on Friday, Yari said that his decision was predicated on the seeming helplessness of the state government…

Pastor Femi Aribisala has said that the truth must be told, saying that, the late M.K.O Abiola was not a democrat as many people believe. Aribisala also hinted that late Abiola was a major financier of military coups at home and abroad, including IBB’s coup against Buhari and Idiagbon in 1984. He alleged that late Abiola…

About 230 Tiv farmers have been reportedly killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in Doma, Keana, Awe, Obi and Lafia local government areas of Nasarawa State. The interim President of Mdzough Tiv, a social-cultural organisation, Nasarawa State chapter, Mr Thomas Gaar, revealed this on Thursday at a press briefing in Lafia, the state…

Reno Omokri, fomer Presidential aide to the former president of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to reap where he did not sow by taking credit for the conviction of the two former northern governors, Mr Dariye and Nyame, who were both jailed for corruption recently by the court. Omokri…

– Ask government to use N807M OSOPADEC Money approved for wooden walkways and jettys to restore electricity to Ondo South – Accused government of mocking the intelligence of Ilaje people.  – Says Investment in meagre resources in wooden walkways, is a gross misplacement of priority  -Says government has reduced the yearnings and aspirations of the people to a…