The Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc on Thursday provided statistics on misalignments in the power value chain, saying that about 14,000 megawatts of electricity was contracted to power generation companies. Managing Director, NBET, Nnaemeka Ewelukwa, gave a breakdown of the quantum of Nigeria’s electricity demand, what was contracted, available capacity, what was produced, among others. He provided these statistics while speaking during a plenary session at the World Energy Day Conference 2021, with the theme, ‘Energy Transition: Gas as Fuel of Choice’, organised by the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and…

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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has called on the Federal Government to declare bandits as terrorists to allow the Nigerian military deal with them according to international law. This came as no fewer than 343 persons were killed from July to September 2021 in Kaduna State, while 830 others were kidnapped. The governor spoke yesterday at the presentation of the Kaduna State Security Incidents Report for the Third Quarter of 2021 in Kaduna saying “we in the Kaduna State Government, have always aligned with the declaration of bandits as insurgents…

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The Central Bank of Nigeria has said it will support youths in tertiary institutions with grants to promote entrepreneurship and reduce unemployment. The CBN disclosed this on Wednesday in a report, titled ‘Guidelines for the implementation of tertiary institutions entrepreneurship scheme’. “Five top Nigerian polytechnics and universities with the best entrepreneurial pitches/ideas shall be awarded as follows: first place – N150m; second place – N120m; third place – N100m; fourth place – N80m; and fifth place – N50m,” it said. It added that activities to be covered under the scheme…

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Aggrieved youths yesterday, shunned police directive banning protest and protested in commemoration of the one year anniversary of the #EndSARS protests in Osogbo, Osun State capital. The youths, who carried banners and placards, chanted anti-government songs as they marched from Ita-Olokan area through Oja-Oba, Station Road, Post Office, Old-Garage and Oke-Fia areas of the town. When the protesters gathered at Oke-Fia, a team of policemen stormed the environment and dispersed the youths. However, another team of policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer, Dugbe Division, Osogbo, CSP Oyegbade Akinloye, pounced…

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Recep Erdogan, the President of Turkey, says the terrorists who tried to remove him through a coup in 2016 are still active in Nigeria. Erdogan said this on Wednesday at a joint press conference with President Muhammadu Buhari, on the occasion of his two-day official visit to the country. Recall that Erdogan had in 2016 accused allies of renowned cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who own Turkish schools and hospitals across Nigeria, of sponsoring the coup. Turkish envoy in Nigeria, Mr. Hakan Cakil, had at the time called on Buhari to close…

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“There is so much injustice in this country, the police are under-paid and have not learnt any lesson from #EndSARS….” These were the last words of , yesterday, while speaking with journalists at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos before officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) swarmed on him, removed his cap and whisked him away into a waiting Black Maria. More youths were, yesterday, arrested by the police for daring to observe a memorial of last year’s long-drawn protests, which turned on its head on October 20. Over 300…

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An abandoned two-storey building has been demolished after a section of the structure collapsed around Haruna Bus Stop, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos state. It was gathered that the section collapsed around 10pm on Monday. While no fewer than 12 occupants of the building were rescued, three were trapped. An immediate search-and-rescue operation by emergency management workers and residents led to the rescue of two of the trapped victims. However, the remains of 25-year-old Joseph Ilesanmi were extricated from the rubble on Tuesday. The rescued victims, some of whom…

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