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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated that the goal to increase electricity generation to 25,000 Megawatts in six years is on the course, adding that the plan, through the partnership between the Federal Government of Nigeria and German Siemens, is on course as the first batch of the transformers has arrived in Nigeria already. Buhari who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja when he chaired the third ministerial performance review retreat for […]

Former National chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, and senatorial candidate of the Labor Party LP for Anambra Central, Victor Umeh, says the federal government has no reason to continue to keep the leader of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu, after the Court of Appeal judgment. The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged Kanu of terrorism charges, but the attorney general of the […]

The Chairman of the House Committee on Power Magaji Da’u has blamed reoccurring National Grid collapse on obsolete infrastructure inherited by the Transmission Company of Nigeria TCN. Da’U, in his statement yesterday when he fielded questions from newsmen after a reception in his honor on the completion of his Ph.D. program in Birninkudu on Sunday, said he isn’t trying to depend on TCN, but they’ve inherited old infrastructure. The lawmaker […]

The newly inaugurated substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will, today October 14, perform his first official function at the Supreme Court Complex. Justice Ariwoola became substantive CJN on Wednesday, following the administration of the oath of office on him by President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement by the Director of Information and Press, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Festus Akande, indicated that Justice Ariwoola’s first assignment in office […]